Land O’Lakes

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 is actively working to reduce its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions, as well as comparing its progress against the previous year. It has established a concrete target for reducing these emissions and regularly reports its progress towards achieving this goal. Additionally, the company is also making efforts to reduce its scope 3 emissions compared to the previous year. Looking ahead, the company has set a target of reducing its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions by 25% before 2030, and ultimately aims to achieve Net Zero emissions across all scopes 1, 2, and 3 by 2050, using the 2020 base year as a reference point. The company diligently tracks and reports its progress in meeting these scope 3 targets.

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

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company explains how its cooperative structure brings farmers closer to retailers and promotes its members’ position in the markets. It also assists farmers in becoming eligible for future market opportunities. Furthermore, the company advocates for advanced infrastructure and connectivity on a larger scale. This initiative aims to connect members’ farms and surrounding communities to broadband internet, ultimately advancing on-farm technology and sustainability practices.

Act ethically
The company ensures that all contracts with direct business relationships include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses. Additionally, the company has established a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to report any concerns or complaints related to bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available statement of policy that expects its business relationships to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. It also discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category and the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by race or ethnicity.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement that commits to respecting human rights. It also indicates the presence of a human rights grievance mechanism that is accessible to all workers. Additionally, the company recognizes the importance of accessibility to external stakeholders who may be negatively affected, and thus, it ensures that the human rights grievance mechanism is also available to them.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. While the company states that the board of directors has expertise in nutrition, it has an opportunity to disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics including climate, water, soil health, social inclusion, ecosystem conversion and biodiversity.

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 how it engages with stakeholders, the issues raised during such activities, and the outcomes of its stakeholder engagement.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate, 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
There is an opportunity for the company to align its scope 1,2 and 3 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

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 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 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 an opportunity to demonstrate that 100% of its own operations are certified to a GFSI food safety scheme/certification programme or other widely recognised (industry-specific) certification. Additionally, it can disclose the percentage of food suppliers who are certified under 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.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some commodities and regions. Also, it could adopt procurement practices and develop supply chain relationships that improve farmers’ income resilience.

Forced labour
While the company does not allow suppliers to retain workers’ personal documents and restrict workers’ freedom of movement, it could disclose similar commitments for its operations. Moreover, it has an opportunity to disclose a prohibition to pay recruitment fees or related costs to secure a job for its value chain. The company has an opportunity to indicate how it is building 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.

Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to release a publicly available policy statement that clearly prohibits bribery and corruption. It could outline a process for identifying and addressing these risks in specific locations or activities within its own operations. Additionally, the company could establish a policy that outlines its approach to lobbying and political engagement, making it available to the public. This policy should specify that the company does not make any political contributions. To enhance transparency, the company could also disclose its lobbying expenditures. It would be beneficial for the company to require third-party lobbyists to adhere to its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
The company could disclose a policy statement committing it to respect the health and safety of workers and disclose how it monitors the health and safety performance of its suppliers. The company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage, and how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. While the company has set expectations on the wage paid by its suppliers, it has an opportunity to add a requirement for them to pay a living wage, and disclose how it supports the payment. Furthermore, it could disclose a public commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment and a time-bound target on gender equality and women’s empowerment. It could also 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 has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect specific workers’ rights but has an opportunity to reference a commitment to all the ILO fundamental rights at work in all locations. It also discloses statements expecting its suppliers to respect the ILO’s fundamental rights at work, but would use stronger language to turn the statement into a formal commitment. Additionally, it could describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, covering its own operations and supply chain and its process for assessing and identifying what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. The company could disclose the results of its human rights risk assessment and a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.