Groupe Limagrain

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

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

Clear and transparent labelling
The company discloses it has adopted the Nutri-score front-of-pack labelling system.

Child labour
The company has implemented a comprehensive initiative in India called the Child Labor Awareness Program (CLAP) to eradicate child labour.

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption. It identifies bribery and corruption risks by utilising a comprehensive system, which includes a detailed risk map for influence-peddling and corruption. Additionally, it has a public policy statement that specifies its non-participation in political contributions.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement in which it commits to respecting the health and safety of its workers. Furthermore, it reports the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement expecting suppliers to respect the ILO fundamental rights at work.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company discloses a remuneration policy related to non-financial goals but can further link this policy to enhancements in nature-related objectives and social issues. Furthermore, there is an opportunity for the company to disclose whether its highest governance body has specific 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 its 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, the company 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 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.

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.

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 quantitative evidence of reductions in water withdrawal across its own operations. It can also disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations and reports progress against the target. Additionally, the company has an opportunity to report how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas, as well as engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal.

Accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment and commercial activities to improve the accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company provides examples of reformulated products. However, there is potential for improvement in reporting its overall efforts to reduce sugar, salt, and fat, and/or increase the presence of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and whole grains in its entire portfolio. Additionally, there is an opportunity for the company to adopt a nutrient profiling system and set a sales-based target to increase the proportion of more nutritious products, aligning with government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company has an opportunity to disclose the percentage of products for which its front-of-pack labelling schemes have been rolled out.

Responsible marketing
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to responsible marketing and its marketing activities to promote healthy food options.

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose child labour requirements in its contractual agreement with suppliers as a prohibition of child labour and the use of an age-verification system for the workers recruited. It could also indicate how it is building the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
While the company discloses a target to double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers by 2030, it has an opportunity to demonstrate activities to improve farmers’ income resilience through its procurement practices and supply chain relationships. Also, it could 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.

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 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 include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. Furthermore, while the company has a mechanism for stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns, it could further clarify if this mechanism is accessible to all stakeholders and if complainants have the option to identify themselves or remain anonymous.

Moreover, the company can demonstrate ethical conduct by publishing a policy statement that outlines its approach to lobbying and political engagement and transparently disclosing all lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment to workers’ health and safety by extending the expectation to its business relationships and providing evidence of monitoring their compliance. Additionally, it could set a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage, describe the living wage determination methodology for regions where it operates, and disclose strategies to support suppliers in paying a living wage.

Furthermore, it has an opportunity to translate its commitment on gender equality and women’s empowerment into a public policy document and disclose a related time-bound target. It could discloses that it has at least 30% women on the Board of Directors and report the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to human rights by disclosing a policy document that respects fundamental human rights and the International Labour Organization (ILO) fundamental rights at work in its operations.

Additionally, the company could describe the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts in specific activities or locations, covering both its operation and value chain, as well as the process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues. Moreover, the company could establish a global system to address these salient human rights issues by implementing preventive, mitigative, or remedial measures.