GrainCorp

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

No leading practices were identified for the company in the environment measurement area.

No leading practices were identified for the company in the nutrition measurement area.

No leading practices were identified for the company in the social inclusion measurement area.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company has key performance indicators covering topics within the Food and Agriculture Benchmark’s three dimensions of environment, nutrition and social inclusion, it has an opportunity to disclose a sustainable development strategy and how it identifies and prioritises the topics where it has the most impact.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company assigns responsibility and accountability for its sustainable development strategy to its highest governance body. The company discloses that while the Executive Leadership Team is responsible for developing the sustainability framework, the Board of Directors is ultimately responsible for sustainability performance. In addition the company’s Key Management Personnel’s short term incentives are linked to an assessment, 15% of which is based on performance against “group safety, health and environment.” The company has an opportunity to improve performance by linking board-level remuneration to the achievement of environment, nutrition and social inclusion objectives.

Stakeholder engagement
The company does not disclose stakeholder engagement activities, including how it selects the stakeholders, nor an overview of the topics discussed or their outcomes.

Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions
In its 2020 Sustainability Report the company discloses its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. While the combined scope 1 emissions have fluctuated over time and do not show a consistent year-on-year quantitative reduction, the scope 2 emissions have reduced year-on-year since 2017. However the company does not disclose any evidence in regard to scope 3 emissions. The company has an opportunity to set time-bound targets to reduce scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions in line with a 1.5 degree-scenario.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company does not disclose that it is adopting sustainable production practices that improve soil health and increase agrobiodiversity.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company does not disclose that it is adopting sustainable production practices that optimise the use of fertilisers and pesticides.

Water use
While the company provides information on quantitative reductions in its water use per tonne, it is yet to set a target to reduce water withdrawals across its own operations.

Food loss and waste
While the company is addressing food loss and waste through GrainCorp Oils’ Auscol business which specialises in recycling used cooking fats and oils, it has an opportunity to set time-bound targets to reduce food loss and waste across its own operations and report against them.

Plastic use and packaging waste
While the company discloses that it is reducing its plastic use, through maximising the usage of tarpaulins which protect grain bunkers from damage, it has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment by setting time-bound targets to reduce plastic use and reporting against these targets.

Availability of healthy foods
The company does not disclose a commitment or activities to increase the availability of healthy and nutritious foods.

Accessibility and affordability of healthy foods
The company does not disclose a commitment to address food insecurity by improving the accessibility and affordability of healthy and nutritious foods.

Workforce nutrition
The company does not disclose sufficient evidence of having any workforce nutrition programmes.

Food safety
The company does not disclose evidence of ensuring safe food for consumers through compliance with national regulations or the Codex General Principles of Food Hygiene, for 100% of its operations.

Child labour
The company commits to prohibiting child labour in its own operations and requires its suppliers to adhere to the same standard and have an age-verification system in place. The company has an opportunity to disclose a coordinated and consistent monitoring system for its for its own operations and supply chain.

Forced labour
The company commits to prohibiting forced labour in its operations and requires its suppliers to adhere to the same standard. It also prohibits suppliers from retaining workers’ personal documents and restricting workers’ freedom of movement. However, it has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to respect workers’ rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining as well as specify that it does not interfere with workers seeking to exercise these rights.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups
The company does not disclose that it specifically recognises the health and safety risks to vulnerable groups, such as migrant and temporary labourers, women and young farmers.

Farmer and fisher productivity and resilience
The company does not disclose a commitment or examples of activities to support the resilience, productivity and access to markets for farmers, fishers or small-scale producers in its supply chain.

Land rights
The company does not commit to recognising and respecting the legitimate tenure rights related to the ownership and use of land of local communities.

GrainCorp has committed to respecting human rights and has grievance mechanisms for both workers and external stakeholders to raise human rights issues. The company lacks a due diligence process to identify, assesses and take action on human rights risks in its own operations and supply chain.

GrainCorp publicly commits to respecting the health and safety of workers and expects its supply chain partners to do the same. However no relevant information was found in the public domain on the topics of living wage, regulating working hours, collective bargaining, or gender equality and women’s empowerment. While the company discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by gender it does not do the same for other indicators of diversity.

GrainCorp commits to protecting personal data and has a privacy statement on the use of personal data. Furthermore it prohibits bribery and corruption and includes anti- bribery and anti-corruption clauses in contracts with supply chain partners. While GrainCorp does not disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement, it states it does not to make political donations. No relevant information was found in reference to the company’s global tax approach.