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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. It reports that it carried out a process of updating of its materiality matrix in 2020 through which it identified the most relevant ESG topics and aspects for stakeholders and for sustainability management across its value chain.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company reduces its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions. It reports a reduction of about 36% in 2021 from a year earlier.

Food safety
The company discloses that 44% of its partner mills have ISO 22000 certification, while 36% have FSSC 22000 certification.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

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

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement wherein it commits to respecting the health and safety of its workers, while also extending this expectation to its business relationships. It discloses quantitative information on the health and safety of its workers and how it monitors the health and safety performance of its business relationships. Furthermore, the company discloses the proportion of its workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements, as well as the share of women in workforce for each employee category.

Respect human rights
The company has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and external stakeholders adversely impacted by its activities. Reporting channels include a phone number and a website, which allows complainants to choose between remaining anonymous or providing their identity.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
While the company assigns decision-making and oversight responsibility for its sustainability strategy to senior management, it has an opportunity to assign these responsibilities to the highest governance body. It could also link senior executives’ compensation to sustainability targets and objectives. Additionally, it could disclose whether the highest governance body has expertise in its 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, beyond materiality assessment.

Sustainable development strategy
The company has an opportunity to disclose group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain. Furthermore, it has an opportunity to report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has the opportunity to set time-bound targets for reducing scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions and report progress. It could also align these targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Additionally, there’s potential to reduce scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, disclose time-bound targets and report progress. Aligning scope 3 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory is also an option.

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

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 activities and targets to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices, and report progress against them.

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 demonstrate that 100% of its own operations are certified to a GFSI food safety scheme/certification programme or other widely recognised industry-specific certification.

Workforce nutrition
The company has health and wellbeing promotion programs for its employees; however, there is an opportunity to enhance the program by incorporating nutrition-focused health checks or nutrition education and disclose evidence of other workforce nutrition programmes.

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 requires its suppliers to prohibit 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 adopt procurement practices and develop supply chain relationships that improve farmers’ income resilience.

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.

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
The company could describe the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. Furthermore, it has the opportunity to demonstrate ethical practices by disclosing its approach to lobbying and political engagement, clarifying its non-participation in political contributions, and transparently disclosing lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment to its operations and supply chain workers’ wellbeing by setting a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage, describing the living wage determination methodology, and disclosing strategies to support suppliers in paying a living wage.

Furthermore, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related targets. It could also disclose the representation of women on the highest governance body and 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 that respects human rights and the ILO fundamental rights at work in its operations and supply chain. Additionally, the company could describe the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities and supply chain, as well as the process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues. Moreover, the company could establish a global system to address these salient human rights issues by implementing preventive, mitigative, or remedial measures.