Amaggi Group

Sustainable development strategy
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts as well as the outcome of this process, in relation to its sustainability strategy.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions.

Ecosystem conversion
The company discloses some activities working towards conversion-free supply chains, including launching a zero deforestation and native vegetation conversion guarantee program, offering certified soybeans free of deforestation and conversion of native vegetation, and evolving their mapping process, supplier monitoring, and traceability of volumes traded. It also discloses the proportion of high-risk commodities which are conversion-free and has set time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company engaged in low carbon agricultural initiatives with techniques such as regenerative agriculture, direct sowing at all its farms, crop-livestock integration, and soil quality control to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices.

Workforce nutrition
The company has a programme/policy for workplace breastfeeding support.

Land rights
The company has a commitment to respect ownership and use of land and natural resources and related legitimate tenure rights.

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. Additionally, it has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement in which it commits to respecting the health and safety of workers and expects its business relationships to do so. Moreover, the company discloses the proportion of its workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements, and reports the percentage of its workforce for each employee category by age group, gender, and disability

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement that requires suppliers to respect the core labour rights outlined by the International Labour Organization (ILO). Furthermore, the company has implemented a human rights grievance mechanism, which is accessible to both workers within the company and external stakeholders who may be negatively affected by the company’s operations.

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 list of trade associations of which it is a member. Furthermore, the company can provide a clear and detailed framework for assessing the alignment of these trade associations with its sustainability targets. Additionally, the company 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 how it engages with stakeholders, the issues raised during such activities, and the outcomes of its stakeholder engagement.

Sustainable development strategy
The company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including ecosystem conversion and climate; however, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Moreover, while it reports against all its targets, it has an opportunity to disclose a baseline year for all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has the opportunity to report progress on its scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions targets, disclose a time-bound target for this reduction, and align it with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company has an opportunity to disclose targets to optimise the use of fertilizers and minimise the use of pesticides in its production and/or sourcing practices, and report progress against the targets.

Food loss and waste
The company has the chance to set FLW reduction targets and provide updates on the progress made towards these targets. Additionally, the company has the opportunity to align its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction by 2030.

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

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.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to water use and withdrawal.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment and activities to address malnutrition and food insecurity.

Food safety
The company discloses that it currently holds a FSSC 22000 certification, but it can further enhance its operations by obtaining certifications for 100% of its own operations. Additionally, the company has the chance to provide information about the percentage of its food suppliers that are certified to a GFSI-recognized food safety scheme.

Workforce nutrition
While the company has health and wellbeing promotion programs for its employees it has an opportunity to enhance the program by incorporating nutrition-focused health checks or nutrition education. Furthermore, it has an opportunity to implement a programme to offer healthy food options to its employees and expand its nutrition initiatives to its supply chain workers. .

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose examples of remediation programmes when a case of child labour is found in its operations and to indicate how it is building the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts. While the company prohibits its suppliers from using child labour, it could require them to have an age-verification system in place.

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 has an opportunity to disclose forced labour requirements for its operations and supply chain such as a prohibition to pay recruitment fees, to retain workers’ personal documents or to restrict workers’ freedom of movement. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups
The company 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
The company does not require its business relationships to have a process to identify legitimate tenure rights holders and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

Act ethically
The company could describe the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations.

While the company outlines its approach to political engagement in a policy, it has an opportunity to outline its lobbying approach in a policy. Moreover, although it states that it makes political contributions after approval from the legal department and the CEO. However, the company could disclose whether these are made only by exception, and the criteria for making them. Additionally, it could disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities and that it requires third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
The company could demonstrate how it monitors its suppliers’ performance to health and safety standards.

Moreover, the company could detail how it determines a living wage for the regions it operates in and how it encourages its suppliers to pay a living wage. Furthermore, the company could also disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage.

Regarding gender equality, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related targets. The company could disclose the representation of women on the highest governance body and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men by significant locations of operation.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights. However, it could improve the language to turn this into a formal commitment. Furthermore, while the company publicly commits to respect specific workers’ rights, it has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work.

Moreover, while the company discloses that it conducts due diligence in general, it has an opportunity to specify that it conducts human rights due diligence that includes a process for identifying human rights risks and impacts in its supply chain. The company could describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, covering its own operations and what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. Additionally, it could disclose the results of its human rights risk assessment. Furthermore, it could also disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.