Fufeng Group

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

Water withdrawal
The company demonstrates reducing water withdrawal in its own operations.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

Child labour
The company verifies the age of workers recruited in its own operations.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by gender and age group.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives that 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
While the company states that it has a materiality assessment, 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 and the outcome of the process. Furthermore, it could disclose group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain and report consistently on progress 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.

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 to report progress against them.

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. It could also report the amount of water withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. Furthermore, the company could engage with suppliers to reduce water 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 or other widely recognised (industry-specific) certification. Additionally, it could disclose the percentage of food suppliers certified to a GFSI-recognised food safety scheme.

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 builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts.

Furthermore, it could disclose child labour requirements in its contractual agreement with suppliers, including the prohibition of child labour and the use of an age-verification system for the workers recruited.

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.

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 has an opportunity to disclose a policy on bribery and corruption, and to include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. It could also disclose its processes for identifying and addressing bribery and corruption risks and impacts, along with a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise complaints. Additionally, the company could disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement, specify that it does not make political contributions, and divulge its lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy commitment to respecting the health and safety of workers across both its operations and supply chain. Moreover, it could provide evidence of monitoring suppliers’ compliance to health and safety standards.

Additionally, the company could set a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage, describe the living wage determination methodology for the regions in which it operates, and disclose strategies to support suppliers in paying a living wage.

Simultaneously, the company could take a significant step by committing to gender equality and women’s empowerment. To reinforce this commitment, it could disclose related targets while reporting the representation of women on its highest governance body.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement that commits to respecting human rights and the ILO fundamental rights at work, and extend this expectation to its suppliers. In terms of risk identification, the company has the opportunity to describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts, covering both its own operations and its supply chain. Furthermore, it could outline a process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues and establish a global system to address its salient human rights issues.