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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 the channels it uses to engage with each stakeholder group.

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. Additionally, it has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions, and reports progress against its targets.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity.

Water withdrawal
The company actively showcases its efforts to decrease water withdrawal in its own operations, while also keeping track and disclosing the amount of water that is withdrawn in water-stressed areas.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company discloses its participation in the HarvestZinc project, which aims to promote the development of new and nutritious varieties of staple food crops containing higher levels of vitamin A, iron, or zinc through biofortification technologies. Furthermore, it discloses that this project demonstrates the feasibility of a fertilizer strategy with vast potential to alleviate deficiencies of zinc, iodine, iron, and selenium, thereby positively impacting human health.

Workforce nutrition
The company has implemented a nutrition education programme for its employees via training, lectures and educational software.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company has a policy on prohibiting bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its business relationships’ contracts. Furthermore, it has established a grievance mechanism for stakeholder complaints.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect the health and safety of workers and expecting its business relationship to do the same. Moreover, it provides evidence of monitoring suppliers’ compliance. The company discloses that 76% of its employees are covered by collective bargaining agreements. It also reports the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category.

The company publicly commits to gender equality and women’s empowerment and has established related time-bound targets. By the end of 2024, the company aims to have 20% of its workforce composed of females, along with 25% females in senior leadership positions and 25% females on the Board of Directors. Currently, women make up 33% of its Board of Directors.

Respect human rights
The company has a policy statement committing it to respect human rights and the International Labour Organization (ILO) fundamental rights at work and expecting its business relationships to do the same. Furthermore, it discloses categories of stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities such as customers, impact analyst, international agency, service provider, employees and managers. It also has established a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and all external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to 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 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 provides an overview of the issues raised by its shareholders and consumers but could further discloses the issues raised by its other stakeholders.

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.

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 work towards reducing its scope 3 emissions and establish a time-bound reduction target that aligns with the 1.5-degree trajectory. Furthermore, it has the opportunity to provide regular progress reports on these objectives.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company has an opportunity to disclose targets that encompass optimizing the use of fertilizers and minimizing the use of pesticides as part of its R&D and value chain activities, and report progress against these 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 and report progress against it.

Water withdrawal
The company has the opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for reducing water withdrawal in its own operations and then report progress against the target. Additionally, the company can engage with suppliers to also reduce water withdrawal.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose the outcomes of its nutrition-sensitive activities. This includes providing data that demonstrates how its initiatives are contributing to addressing malnutrition and increasing the availability and variety of nutrient-dense food and crops.

Workforce nutrition
The company has an opportunity to disclose evidence of other workforce nutrition programmes, such as workplace breastfeeding support and healthy food offerings. Furthermore, the company has an opportunity to implement workforce nutrition programmes for its supply chain workers.

Child labour
The company could provide examples of remediation programmes when a case of child labour is found in its operations and indicate how it is building the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts. While the company has in place expectations on the prohibition of child labour for its suppliers, it could disclose related policy requirements including 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.

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 establish a process to identify risks and impacts related to bribery and corruption. Furthermore, the company could demonstrate ethical conduct by publishing a policy statement that outlines its approach to lobbying and political engagement, emphasises its non-participation in political contributions, or alternatively, states the criteria of exceptions. It could also transparently disclose all lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment to its workers’ wellbeing by setting a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage and detailing the living wage determination methodology in the regions where it operates. Moreover, while it expects its suppliers to pay wage according to all applicable laws, it has an opportunity to add requirement for them to pay a living wage and to disclose strategies to support suppliers to make the payment. Furthermore, it could disclose the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category, by significant locations of operation.

Respect human rights
The company states that it carries out EcoVadis assessments. However, it could further describes the process(es) to identify its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations and supply chain. It could also disclose the process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues and disclose what it considers as salient human rights issues for the company. Moreover, the company could establish a global system to address these salient human rights issues by implementing preventive, mitigative, or remedial measures.