J.R. Simplot

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, including participation in the 4R Nutrient Stewardship Program. This program promotes best practices to reduce nutrient loss in soil, improving efficiency and environmental sustainability.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company publicly commits to safeguarding personal data. Additionally, it has a policy against bribery and corruption, and has established a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement wherein it commits to respecting the health and safety of its workers. It also extends this commitment to its business relationships.

Respect human rights
The company indicates that it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to its workers and all external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company’s activities.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its sustainability governance and accountability by designating an individual or body to implement its sustainability strategy and by assigning decision-making and oversight to its highest governance body. It could link senior executives’ compensation to sustainability targets/objectives. Additionally, it could disclose if the highest governance body has expertise in its 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, the company can provide a clear and detailed framework for assessing the alignment of these trade associations with its sustainability targets. Additionally, the company can report potential misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose how it engages with stakeholders, the issues raised during such activities, and the outcomes of its stakeholder engagement.

Sustainable development strategy
The company has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts. Furthermore, even though it discloses some sustainability objectives including those related to climate and water, there is room to establish group-wide targets for the most material topics of its value chain. Additionally, the company has an opportunity to report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company publicly aims to reduce carbon emissions per ton of product by 20% through emission cuts in production facilities. However, specific targets for scope 1 and 2 emissions are unclear. The company should provide progress updates against its targets and consider aligning these with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Additionally, opportunities exist to reduce all greenhouse gas emissions, including scope 3, and establish time-bound targets for them. Aligning scope 3 emissions with a 1.5-degree trajectory is also an option.

Animal welfare
The company has an opportunity to set animal welfare targets applicable to all species, geographies and products.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company has an opportunity to disclose a target to optimise the use of fertilisers and minimise the use of pesticides in its production and/or sourcing practices, and report progress against the targets.

Food loss and waste
The company currently discloses its FLW reduction targets; however, it does not track the progress made towards these targets. To enhance their approach, the company has the potential to align its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction by 2030.

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 discloses its goal to reduce freshwater intake. However, it has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to water use and 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 has an opportunity to demonstrate how it is improving the nutritional quality of its products and to set targets to increase the share of more nutritious products in its portfolio.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company has an opportunity to disclose how it provides nutritional information on its products and how it supports consumers with making healthy food choices through its labelling schemes.

Food safety
The company has the chance to showcase that all of its operations are certified to a GFSI food safety scheme or other widely recognized industry-specific certification. Additionally, the company has an opportunity to reveal the percentage of food suppliers that are certified to a GFSI-recognized 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 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 states that it prohibits the employment of forced labourers, it has an opportunity to disclose forced labour requirements for its operations and supply chain. Specifically, it could prohibit the payment of recruitment fees, the retention of workers’ personal documents, and the restriction of 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.

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 strengthen its commitment against bribery and corruption by specifying the consequences of breaching anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its business relationships’ contracts. It could also establish a process to identify risks and impacts related to bribery and corruption.

Moreover, the company discloses that it respects the rights of its employees to engage in political activities. However, it has an opportunity to outline its approach to lobbying and political engagement and emphasise its non-participation in political contributions, or alternatively, state 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 workers’ health and safety by providing evidence of monitoring suppliers’ compliance. Additionally, it could set a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage, describe the living wage determination methodology, and disclose strategies to support suppliers in paying this wage standard.

Furthermore, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related time-bound targets. It could also disclose 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 strengthen its commitment to human rights by using stronger language in its policy that respects fundamental human rights, and all of the ILO fundamental rights at work, in its operations and supply chain.

Additionally, the company could describe the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts in specific activities or locations, covering its operations and supply 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.