ForFarmers

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 the channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups.

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 reduces its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions. It also has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions, of which it reports progress against. Additionally, the company has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions.

Ecosystem conversion
The company discloses some activities to achieve conversion-free supply chains. This includes a commitment to only purchase sustainable soybean meal and palm oil and derivatives, which are certified based on the FEFAC soy sourcing guidelines and RSPO certificates, respectively.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company discloses quantitative evidence on optimising the use of fertilisers in its production and/or sourcing practices.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company provides a privacy statement regarding the use of personal data and a global tax strategy. It declares that it pays taxes in countries where its economic activity occurs and discloses its total tax contribution. Additionally, the company reveals the proportion of corporate income tax paid in each country.

For reporting concerns or complaints related to bribery and corruption, the company provides a website and contact number. It ensures that individuals can report without fear of reprisals. The website clearly states that anyone can make a report and offers the option to remain anonymous or identify themselves.

Provide and promote decent work
The company’s commitment to workers’ health and safety is evident in its policy statement, which is publicly available. It also has a policy statement that emphasizes the importance of its business relationships committing to upholding the health and safety of workers. Furthermore, the company publicly expects its business relationships to ensure that workers do not exceed 48 hours of work per regular work week, including overtime, with a maximum of 60 hours.

In terms of workforce demographics, the company discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by age, gender and other indicators of diversity. It also sets a time-bound target to increase the representation of women by at least 30% in both the Executive Board and the Executive Team by 2030. Currently, out of the six supervisory board of directors, two are female, resulting in a 33.33% representation of women on the board.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement that outlines its expectation for suppliers to uphold the core labor rights as defined by the International Labour Organization (ILO). Furthermore, the company provides a website and contact number through which complaints or concerns can be raised, particularly those pertaining to human rights issues. This platform is easily accessible to all external stakeholders who may be negatively affected by the actions of the company.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company discloses a remuneration policy related to sustainability; however, it has an opportunity to link this policy to improvement in nature-related objectives 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 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 explain how it has responded to key issues raised by each stakeholder group and disclose specific outcomes implemented to respond to key issues for each stakeholder group, beyond materiality assessment.

Sustainable development strategy
The company discloses its group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for some of the most material parts of its value chain. However, it could have time-bound and measurable targets for at least five out of seven topics considered most material for the industry.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has the opportunity to align its scope 1 and 2 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Additionally, it can reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions and report progress against these targets. Moreover, the company has the opportunity to align its scope 3 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Ecosystem conversion
The company has an opportunity to disclose time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company has an opportunity to disclose a target 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.

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 discloses its commitment to supporting food security, yet it has an opportunity to implement initiatives that enhance the nutritional quality and availability of nutritious foods.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to showcase that all of its operations are certified to a food safety scheme or other industry-specific certification. Additionally, the company can reveal the percentage of its food suppliers that are certified to a 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.

Forced labour
While the company does not allow suppliers to retain workers’ personal documents and restrict workers’ freedom of movement, it has an opportunity to disclose similar commitments for its operations. Furthermore, it could prohibit the payment of recruitment fees or related costs in its value chain. To conclude, the company has an opportunity to 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.

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 has an opportunity to provide a clear description of how it identifies bribery and corruption risks in specific locations or activities, focusing on its own operations. Additionally, it could enhance its contracts with business relationships by incorporating anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses, accompanied by explicit consequences for breaches.

Furthermore, the company has an opportunity to develop a policy outlining its approach to lobbying and political engagement. This policy could be made publicly available and expressly state the company’s non-participation in political contributions. Moreover, the company could disclose its lobbying expenditures. Lastly, considering third-party lobbyists, the company could establish a requirement for adherence to its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to go beyond paying minimum wage to its employees by setting a specific timeline to pay a living wage. It can also provide transparency by explaining how it determines what constitutes a living wage in the various regions where it operates. Moreover, the company can enhance its supplier expectations by requiring them to also pay a living wage and disclosing the support it offers to ensure compliance.

Additionally, though the company acknowledges the importance of gender equality and women’s empowerment, it can further demonstrate its commitment by incorporating these principles into a publicly available policy document. Lastly, the company can promote transparency by revealing the ratio of the basic salary and overall remuneration of women to men in its direct operations workforce, categorized by different employee roles and significant locations of operation.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement that commits to respecting fundamental human rights as declared by the ILO. Additionally, the company has a chance to describe the process it follows to identify human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, including its own operations and supply chain. It could also outline its process for assessing and identifying its most significant human rights issues. Moreover, the company could also disclose a global system aimed at addressing, preventing, or mitigating its significant human rights issues.