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Cooperatie Coforta

Coöperatie Coforta is a Dutch agricultural cooperative consisting of 500 fruit and vegetable growers. The cooperative supplies its products to supermarkets, caterers and wholesalers through its wholly-owned subsidiary The Greenery, an international sales and marketing organisation for fresh fruit and vegetables. The company also holds a leading retail market position in the Dutch mushroom market, processing over 700 tons of mushrooms every week. The Greenery is among the leading suppliers for hard and soft fruit, open field and greenhouse vegetables in the Netherlands. Through its organic branch Naturelle, the company supplies a year-round range of organic fruits, vegetables and mushrooms.

Summary

Coöperatie Coforta (The Greenery) ranks 226th in the Food and Agriculture Benchmark.  The company shows significant room for improvement across all the benchmark measurement areas. In the governance and strategy measurement area, Coöperatie Coforta discloses evidence of neither its sustainability strategy nor its governance and accountability system. Although the company reports on some sustainable agriculture practices, it fails to commit to key topics in the environment measurement area such as greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or water use reduction. As for the nutrition measurement area, the company commits to ensuring food safety, but it lacks recognition of its role in addressing the accessibility and affordability of healthy and nutritious foods. There is no evidence that the company has initiatives that fit the scope of the social inclusion measurement area, showing a lack of responsibility in protecting basic human rights in its operations and supply chains. It further does not meet the minimum requirements to protecting its workers, ensuring decent work and behave ethically.

Ranking position: #226/350
Total score: 11.5/100

Measurement area	Score	Rank (0-350)
Governance and strategy	#1 0.0 /10	#267
Environment	#1 2.1 /30	#248
Nutrition	#1 9.4 /30	#45
Social inclusion	#1 0.0 /30	#300

Segment	Rank
Agricultural products and commodities	#91

Segment ranking summary

Coöperatie Coforta is active in the agricultural products and commodities, performing below average compared to its peers in the segment. The company ranks at the bottom of the pack in social inclusion and governance and strategy, demonstrating a lack of commitments on human rights and workers’ rights. The company performs below average in environment, showing an opportunity to improve by setting targets on key topics such as GHG emissions, water use and soil health. In nutrition, the company is among the top 15 companies mostly due to its healthy food portfolio and its strong performance on food safety. However, it fails to define its contributions to support availability, accessibility and affordability of healthy foods, thus lagging behind its peers.

Governance and strategy: No leading practices were identified for the company in the governance and strategy measurement area.
Environment: No leading practices were identified for the company in the environment measurement area.
Nutrition: No leading practices were identified for the company in the nutrition measurement area.
Social inclusion: No leading practices were identified for the company in the social inclusion measurement area.

Governance and strategy

Sustainable development strategy 
The company does not disclose a sustainable development strategy that includes sustainable development objectives and targets, nor an identification and prioritisation process to determine the topics where it has the most impact.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company does not disclose the governance structure for the implementation of its sustainable development strategy or targets, such as the person, team or committee that holds ultimate responsibility for its implementation.

Stakeholder engagement
The company does not disclose stakeholder engagement activities, including how it selects the stakeholders, nor an overview of the topics discussed or their outcomes.

Environment

Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions
The company does not disclose quantitative evidence to demonstrate that it is reducing its scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company does not disclose that it is adopting sustainable production practices that improve soil health and increase agrobiodiversity.

Fertiliser and pesticide use 
While Coöperatie Coforta discloses evidence of its activities to optimise the use of fertilisers and pesticides, it has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment by setting targets to increase the percentage of production from sustainable practices that optimise the use of fertilisers and pesticides and reporting progress against the targets.

Plastic use and packaging waste
While the company discloses that is transitioning to sustainable forms of packaging, it has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment by setting targets to reduce plastic use and transition to more sustainable forms of packaging and reporting against these targets.

Nutrition

Availability, accessibility, and affordability of healthy foods
Coöperatie Coforta primarily produces and distributes fresh and minimally processed fruit and vegetables. However, it does not commit to addressing food insecurity. Neither does it nor provides evidence of value chain partnerships or projects designed to address the accessibility and affordability of healthy and nutritious foods.

Workforce nutrition 
The company does not disclose a workforce nutrition programme that prioritises making healthy foods the standard in the workplace.

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. However, it does not disclose the percentage of suppliers audited according to GFSI Standards.

Social inclusion

Child and forced labour 
The company does not disclose a commitment to prohibit child and forced labour in its operations and supply chain.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups 
The company does not disclose that it specifically recognises the health and safety risks to vulnerable groups, such as migrant and temporary labourers, women and young farmers.

Farmer productivity and resilience 
The company does not disclose a commitment or examples of activities to support the resilience, productivity and access to markets for farmers, fishers and/or small-scale producers in its supply chain.

Respect human rights: No policies or commitments related to respect for human rights were found in the public domain. As such, Coöperatie Coforta demonstrates a lack of responsibility in protecting basic human rights in its operations and supply chains.
Provide and promote decent work: No evidence of policies or commitments related to decent work were found in the public domain. As such, Coöperatie Coforta does not demonstrate that it provides secure, safe and healthy workplaces, where workers are fairly renumerated and have a meaningful say in decision making.
Act ethically: No evidence of policies or commitments related to key ethical business topics. As such, Coöperatie Coforta demonstrates a lack of responsibility in protecting personal data, tax, bribery and corruption, lobbying and political engagement.

More about the company

Headquarters: Bleiswijk, Netherlands
Food and agriculture revenue USD: 1,037,613,700
Group revenue USD: 1,127,159,100
Onwnership structure: Cooperative
Number of employees: 1,144
Website: https://www.coforta.com

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Cooperatie Coforta

Segment ranking summary

Leading practices

Governance and strategy

Environment

Nutrition

Social inclusion

Risks and opportunities

Governance and strategy

Environment

Nutrition

Social inclusion

Core social indicators

Respect human rights

Provide and promote decent work

Act ethically

More about the company

This company is part of the SDG2000, the 2.000 most influential companies