FMC

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company provides evidence of linking performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues.

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

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities and states the channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups. Furthermore, the company’s stakeholder engagement covers nature, nutrition, and social issues.

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. Furthermore, it reports consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company is actively working to decrease its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions and has set specific targets and timelines to achieve this. Progress against these targets is regularly reported by the company. Furthermore, the scope 1 and 2 emissions reduction goals are in line with a trajectory aimed at limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees.

Additionally, the company is also committed to reducing its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions. Similar to scope 1 and 2, there are time-bound targets set for scope 3 emissions reduction. Regular progress updates on these targets are provided by the company. Moreover, the scope 3 emissions targets are aligned with the same 1.5-degree trajectory as the scope 1 and 2 goals.

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

Water withdrawal
The company is committed to reducing water withdrawal in its own operations, and it actively reports the amount of water it withdraws in water-stressed areas. Additionally, the company collaborates with its suppliers to minimize water withdrawal.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

Forced labour
The company prohibits the payment of any recruitment fees or related costs to secure a job, and it does not retain workers’ personal documents or restrict workers’ freedom of movement in its operations.

Act ethically
The company discloses a public commitment to protect personal data. It also discloses a global tax strategy, and unveils an executive-level body responsible for the strategy. In addition, the company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, and has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise related concerns and complaints.

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, extending this commitment to its business relationships, and disclosing how it monitors compliance.

Furthermore, the company discloses the proportion of its workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements. It also reports the percentage of employees in each employee category by age group, gender and race or ethnicity.

Moreover, the company publicly commits to gender equality and women’s empowerment. It reports having 30% women on the board, and sets a target to increase the representation of women in its global workforce to 50% by 2027.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights and expecting suppliers to uphold the ILO core labour rights.  In addition, the company provides a case study illustrating how it has acted on a salient human rights risk issue. It also offers a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company’s activities.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
While the company states that the board of directors has expertise in sustainability, it has an opportunity to disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics including nutrition, climate, water, soil health, social inclusion, ecosystem conversion and biodiversity.

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.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate and social inclusion, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company has an opportunity to disclose a target to optimize the use of fertilizers and minimise the use of pesticides in its production and/or 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 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 disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations and report progress against the target.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment and activities to address malnutrition and food insecurity.

Workforce nutrition
While the company has nutrition education program targeting school children, it could expand the nutrition initiatives to its employees. Furthermore, it has an opportunity to provide evidence of other workforce nutrition programmes such as breastfeeding supports and healthy food offerings.

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 improve the productivity of the farms in India but it has an opportunity to demonstrate how it improves farmers’ income resilience through its procurement practices and supply chain relationships. Also, it has an opportunity to demonstrate how it identifies living income benchmarks and assesses living income gaps for some regions or commodities.

Forced labour
For its supply chain, the company has an opportunity to prohibit the use of recruitment fees or related costs to secure a job, retaining workers’ personal documents or restricting workers’ freedom of movement. Furthermore, it could indicate how it is building 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.

Living wage
The company has an opportunity to disclose 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 has an opportunity to detail its process for identifying bribery and corruption risks and impacts within its own operations. While it includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships, it could specify consequences for breaching these clauses.

Furthermore, despite the company’s statement that it adheres to all laws governing participation in public affairs, it could create a policy outlining its approach to lobbying and political engagement. Additionally, although the company states it makes political contributions in accordance with applicable U.S. laws and after seeking approval from its general counsel and vice president of government affairs, it could clarify whether these contributions are made on an exceptional basis and define the criteria for such exceptions. Moreover, the company, in addition to disclosing its political contributions, could also disclose its expenditures related to lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company states that it pays at least the minimum wage to its employees, it has an opportunity to commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target. It could also reveal the methodology for determining living wage across all operational regions. Relatedly, 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 the payment.

Moreover, transparency could be bolstered through the disclosure of data, such as the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
While the company discloses statements committing it to respect the ILO’s fundamental rights at work, it has an opportunity to use stronger language to transform these statements into a formal commitment. Additionally, although the company discloses that it conducts a materiality assessment to identify the main risks to business, it could outline the process it employs for identifying its human rights risks and impacts throughout its operations and supply chain. The company could further elaborate on its process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues. Moreover, the company could disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.