Dole

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

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company reduces its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions.

Food loss and waste
The company’s FLW reduction targets are in line with SDG 12.3, which aims to achieve a 50% reduction by 2030.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company discloses activities to improve soil health and agrobiodiversity in its production.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

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 direct business relationships. It also has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise related concerns and complaints.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses a policy commitment to respecting the health and safety of workers for its operations and supply chain. It also discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by age group and covered by collective bargaining agreements. Additionally, the company discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category and has 36.36% 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 has an opportunity to link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover environmental 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, it could provide a clear and detailed framework for assessing the alignment of these trade associations with its sustainability targets and 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 stakeholder groups, beyond materiality assessment.

Sustainable development strategy
The company states that it has a materiality assessment. However, it has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts, including how external stakeholders are involved in the process. Furthermore, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain and to report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has stated its commitment to set more ambitious targets for 2030 in order to reduce emissions and comply with the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) guidelines. It has an opportunity to set targets for reducing scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and align them 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 opportunity to disclose its Food Loss and Waste (FLW) reduction targets and report progress against these 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 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 is an important player in the production and distribution of fresh fruit and vegetables, thereby supporting the availability of nutritious foods. However, the company has an opportunity to demonstrate how it is improving the nutritional quality of its packaged products.

Food safety
The company has a chance to showcase that all of its own operations are certified to a GFSI food safety scheme or other widely recognized industry-specific certification. Furthermore, the company can reveal the percentage of food suppliers certified to a GFSI-recognized food safety scheme.

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. 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 set up initiatives to encourage the uptake of sustainable farming practices but it could demonstrate how it improves farmers’ income resilience through its procurement practices and supply chain relationships. Also, it has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some regions or commodities.

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.

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 disclose its processes for identifying and addressing bribery and corruption. It also has an opportunity to disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement beyond a personal level in a public policy document. Furthermore, it states that it makes political contributions only after approval from Legal Department and the Divisional Senior Management. However, it has an opportunity to disclose whether these are made only by exception, and the criteria for making them.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose how it monitors its suppliers’ performance on health and safety standards. Additionally, it could disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or state that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage. It could also describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates and how it works to support its suppliers in paying a living wage. Furthermore, while the company commits to gender equality, it has an opportunity to commit to women’s empowerment and disclose related targets. It could also disclose the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available statement committing it to respect human rights and the fundamental rights at work declared by the ILO in its operations and supply chain but has an opportunity to place it in a formal policy document. Additionally, it could describe a comprehensive process for assessing and identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities and supply chain, and its salient human rights issues. It could further specify what it considers to be salient human rights issues, how relevant factors are considered and how it acts to prevent, mitigate or remediate its salient human rights issues through a global system.