CHS

No leading practices were identified in the governance and strategy area.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices. For instance, the company, in collaboration with the Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture and other partners, has initiated a five-year program to monitor and enhance resource management and soil conservation. Additionally, it actively participates in promoting and advancing The Fertiliser’s Institute’s 4Rs Nutrient Stewardship program. This program translates the 4Rs principles into practical agronomic recommendations and product development to optimize nutrient availability for crop growth and soil health improvement.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

Child labour
The company requires suppliers to prohibit child labour and verify the age of recruited workers.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company, as a cooperative, offers farmers and ranchers a pooled resource system and assists them in accessing global markets.

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, a grievance mechanism has been established for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement that expects its business relationships to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. Additionally, it has a policy statement accessible to the public, in which it commits to respecting the health and safety of workers. Furthermore, it discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category.

Respect human rights
The company indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to link senior executives’ compensation to sustainability targets and objectives. Additionally, it could disclose if the highest governance body has expertise in its 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 how it engages with stakeholders, the issues raised during such activities, and the outcomes of its stakeholder engagement.

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, including the outcome of the process. Furthermore, it could disclose group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain. Additionally, the company 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.

Ecosystem conversion
The company has an opportunity to disclose its efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation or restoration. It could develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

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 disclose its FLW reduction targets and report progress towards them. Additionally, the company can 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 has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to food safety and demonstrate that its operations and supply chain adhere to food safety standards.

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. It could also disclose the length covered by its parental leave policy, as well as any other breastfeeding supports such as dedicated breastfeeding rooms or flexible working hours for breastfeeding mothers. Furthermore, it has an opportunity to implement a programme to offer healthy food options to its employees.

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.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
While the company indicates it has assessed living income gaps, it has an opportunity to disclose how it assesses them and which living income benchmarks it has identified. Also, it discloses it supports farmer productivity but it has an opportunity to demonstrate how it improves farmers’ income resilience through its procurement practices and supply chain relationships.

Forced labour
The company 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
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 has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to respect ownership and use of land and natural resources and related legitimate tenure rights. Furthermore, it could describe a process at its operations and supply chain level to identify legitimate tenure rightsholders when acquiring, leasing or making other arrangements to use land and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

Act ethically
While the company has a process in place for identifying bribery and corruption, it could disclose details of this process. Moreover, it has an opportunity to establish a policy setting out its lobbying and political engagement approach and specifying that it does not make political contributions.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose its monitoring process for supplier health and safety performance. Additionally, the company has an opportunity to disclose either a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage or a confirmation that it has already achieved this goal. To provide transparency, it could disclose how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates and how it works to support the payment of a living wage by its suppliers.

In terms of gender equality and women’s empowerment, the company has an opportunity to disclose a public commitment and time-bound targets. Moreover, it could disclose that it has at least 30% women representation on its board, and report the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement committing it to respect human rights. Currently, the company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect specific workers’ rights within its operations and supply chain, but it could reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work.

Moreover, the company has an opportunity to describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in its own operations and its supply chain. Furthermore, it could disclose its process for assessing and identifying what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. Lastly, the company has an opportunity to disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.