Agropur

Lobbying and advocacy
The company discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member wherever it operates. However, it should disclose a full list for all geographies where it operates.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company commits to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 as a signatory of the US Dairy Stewardship Commitment. Its strategy centers on reducing energy intensity and increasing reliance on renewable energy sources.

Food loss and waste
The company is committed to achieving its FLW reduction targets, which are in alignment with the SDG 12.3 goal of reducing FLW by 50% by 2030. In pursuit of this goal, the company actively collaborates with its value chain partners to prevent the generation of FLW.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company is actively involved in initiatives aimed at reducing plastic use. They incorporate recycled content in their products and have implemented responsible packaging guidelines.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices. It has rolled out an environment program addressing soil conservation and health, and has required farms to have an environmental farm plan.

Food safety
The company provides evidence that 100% of its own operations are certified to a Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI)-recognised food safety scheme. It discloses that all its products meet the strictest standards, and all its plants are Safe Quality Food certified.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company supports its cooperative’s member farmers to reach industry standards and maintain milk quality through trainings, technical assistance and equipment upgrades.

Act ethically
The company includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. It reserves the right to terminate its business relationship with supplier if the supplier fails to demonstrate compliance.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available statement of policy that expects its business relationships to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. Additionally, it discloses the proportion of women in its workforce for each employee category, and reveals a 38.46% representation of women on the board.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity and social issues. Furthermore, it could disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Lobbying and advocacy
The company has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets. Additionally, it can report any potential misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company states that it has a materiality assessment, it has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts. Furthermore, even though it discloses some sustainability objectives including those related to climate, there is room to establish group-wide targets for the most critical parts of its value chain. Additionally, it has an opportunity to report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to disclose reductions in scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions, and set time-bound targets aligned with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5-degree pathway.

Animal welfare
The company has an opportunity to set animal welfare targets applicable to all species, geographies and products.

Ecosystem conversion
While the company states that it is a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, it has an opportunity to disclose some activities and time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains.

Food loss and waste
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures on food loss and waste. For instance, it could quantify and measure its food loss and waste, as well as collaborate with value chain partners on prevention measures. Although the company reports the goal of reducing food waste by 50% at the Canadian retail and consumer level by 2030, it could report progress against this target.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging.

Protein diversification
The company has an opportunity to set a sales-based target to increase alternative proteins across its portfolio, as well as report progress against this target.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company has an opportunity to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and report progress against it.

Accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods
The company supports leading North American organizations, including food banks like Feeding America and Food Banks of Quebec. However, it could further disclose its commitment and commercial activities to enhance the accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company discloses that it has developed dairy ingredients to enhance protein content while reducing fat and salt content in dairy products. However, there is an opportunity for the company to increase its reporting on product reformulation activities and reductions of sugar, salt, and fat across its portfolio. Additionally, the company can set a sales-based target aimed at increasing the percentage of nutritious products in accordance with a government-endorsed or externally-validated nutrient profiling system.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company has an opportunity to disclose how it provides nutritional information on its products and how it supports consumers with making healthy food choices through its labelling schemes.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to disclose the percentage of food suppliers certified to a GFSI-recognised food safety scheme.

Responsible marketing
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to responsible marketing. And while it discloses that it has established nutritional guidelines, which are based on Health Canada’s dietary recommendations, it could disclose what marketing activities it has to promote healthy food options.

Child labour
While the company expects its suppliers to not hire people who are under the local legal minimum age of employment, it has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to prohibit child labour in its supply chain and establish an age-verification system for its value chain. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some commodities and regions. Also, it could demonstrate how it improves farmers’ income resilience through its procurement practices and supply chain relationships.

Forced labour
The company states that it adheres to the ETI Base Code, which addresses human rights such as employment is freely chosen, and is subjected to regular Sedex Audits. However, it has the opportunity to disclose forced labour requirements for its operations and supply chain. Specifically, it could prohibit the payment of recruitment fees, the retention of workers’ personal documents, and the restriction of workers’ freedom of movement. Furthermore, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups
While the company states that it contributes to the health and nutrition of consumers, it has an opportunity to recognise and assess the health and safety risks to vulnerable groups, such as migrant and temporary labourers, women and young farmers. Furthermore, it could provide evidence of support activities that improve the health and safety of vulnerable groups.

Land rights
While the company states that it understands its responsibility to the land, it has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to respect ownership and use of land and natural resources, and related legitimate tenure rights as set out in the relevant parts of the VGGT’s or the IFC Performance Standards. Also, it could require its business relationships to have a process to identify legitimate tenure rights holders, paying particular attention to vulnerable or marginalised tenure rights holders. It could also negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

Living wage
While the company expects its suppliers to pay it workers at least a minimum wage, it has an opportunity to set a target for paying a living wage across its direct suppliers and describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it sources. Also, it could disclose the percentage of workers across its own operations or direct suppliers that are paid a living wage.

Act ethically
The company prohibits bribery and corruption and has a process in place to identify them. However, it could disclose the specific details of this process and formalise this commitment in a public policy document. Moreover, it could release a publicly available policy statement indicating that it does not make political contributions and disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has the opportunity to disclose a policy commitment to respecting the health and safety of workers within its operations and supply chain, along with evidence of how it monitors its suppliers’ performance on health and safety standards. Additionally, in addition to following the ETI Base Code, the company could disclose time-bound targets for paying all workers a living wage. It could also describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates and how it supports its suppliers in achieving this.

Furthermore, it could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related targets. It should also disclose the representation of women on the highest governance body and the ratio of basic salary and remuneration between women and men.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to human rights by disclosing a policy statement that respects fundamental human rights and the ILO fundamental rights at work in its operations and supply chain. Additionally, it could outline its procedure for identifying human rights risks and impacts throughout its activities and supply chain. It could also detail the process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues. Moreover, it could establish a global system to address these salient human rights issues by implementing preventive, mitigative, or remedial measures.