Corteva Agriscience

Lobbying and advocacy
The company discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member.

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.

Food loss and waste
The company discloses its FLW reduction targets and reports progress against them.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company partakes in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company discloses activities and targets to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production practices, and reports progress against the targets.

Water withdrawal
The company reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company provides evidence of nutrition-sensitive activities. For example, it discloses information about its plant breeding technologies that help reduce food waste by assisting farmers in growing vegetables that don’t spoil easily and have enhanced nutrient profiles. The company also states that it is part of the Africa Biofortified Sorghum Project, a public-private partnership that is working to improve the health and survival of millions of people by adding pro-vitamin A to sorghum.

Child labour
The company discloses an age verification system for the workers recruited for its operation and supply chain. Furthermore, it requires suppliers to prohibit child labour.

Act ethically
The company discloses a public commitment to protect personal data and a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption. It also includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships and has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption.

Additionally, the company discloses its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a policy statement.

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 that expects its business relationships to do the same. The company also discloses how it monitors the health and safety performance of its business relationships and the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by age group. Furthermore, the company discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category and its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by race or ethnicity. Lastly, it discloses that it has 31% women on the board.

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 discloses a remuneration policy related to ESG but could further link this policy to improvement in nature-related objectives and social issues. Moreover, it has an opportunity to 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 by each stakeholder group during its stakeholder engagement activities and to describe its process, including frequencies and channels, for engaging with each stakeholder beyond materiality assessment.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate and biodiversity, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Furthermore, it could 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 and 2 and Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, and set time-bound targets aligned with the Paris agreement’s 1.5 degree pathway.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company has an opportunity to disclose targets that encompass optimizing the use of fertilizers and minimizing the use of pesticides as part of its R&D and value chain activities, and report progress against these targets.

Food loss and waste
The company has an opportunity to align its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3 (50% reduction by 2030).

Plastic use and packaging waste
While the company describes its activities to reduce plastic use and transition towards sustainable packaging, it has an opportunity to disclose the associated quantitative data.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence of reductions in water withdrawal across its own operations. Additionally, it can disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its operations and report progress against this target. Furthermore, the company has the chance to engage with suppliers in order to reduce water withdrawal.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose the outcomes of its nutrition-sensitive activities. This includes providing data that demonstrates how its initiatives are contributing to addressing malnutrition and increasing the availability and variety of nutrient-dense food and crops.

Workforce nutrition
The company has an opportunity to disclose evidence of 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.

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.

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.

Living wage
The company 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 suppliers that are paid a living wage.

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. It also has the opportunity to make no political contributions, except in unusual circumstances, and disclose information regarding its lobbying expenditures. Furthermore, it could disclose that it requires third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage, and describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. While the company has set expectations on the wage paid by its suppliers, it has an opportunity to add a requirement for them to pay a living wage, and disclose how it supports this payment. Additionally, it could disclose a broad public commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category, by significant locations of operation.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights; however, it has an opportunity to use stronger language to turn the statement into a formal commitment. It also has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect specific workers’ rights but could reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work. Additionally, the company has a publicly available statement of policy that expects its suppliers to prohibit child labour, forced labour and discrimination, and respect the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining; however, it is unclear whether the company expects its business relationships to respect freedom of association and collective bargaining in all contexts and locations. With regards to human rights due diligence, the company could describe the process for identifying, assessing and taking action to address its salient human rights risks and impacts in its own operations and supply chain.