Louis Dreyfus Company

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
While responsibility for the company’s sustainable development strategy lies with the Environment and Human Rights committees, the company has an opportunity to strengthen accountability by assigning this responsibility to its highest governance body and disclosing further information on its decision-making processes and oversight responsibilities, as well as linking sustainability objectives and targets to roles and remuneration.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has conducted stakeholder engagement activities and discloses an overview of the issues raised via these activities, as well as how the outcomes of the engagement process have been integrated into the company’s sustainable development strategy. The company has an opportunity to improve by disclosing how stakeholders are identified and by ensuring that its stakeholder engagement covers sustainability topics across all three benchmark measurement areas, including nutrition.

Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions
The company has a time-bound target, which it reports against, to reduce scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 1% year-on-year every year between 2018 and 2022. In addition the company discloses that it started measuring scope 3 emissions in 2020. The company has an opportunity to improve its performance by setting a time-bound target to reduce GHG emissions which includes scope 1, 2 and 3 and aligns with a 1.5-degree scenario.

Protection of terrestrial natural ecosystems
While the company has commitments to sourcing deforestation and conversion-free coffee and palm oil, it has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment by setting time-bound targets for achieving DCF supply chains for all of its relevant high-risk commodities and by disclosing the proportion of its relevant high-risk commodities which are currently DCF certified.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
While the company discloses that its coffee suppliers are encouraged to adopt soil conservation practices, it has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment by setting targets to increase the percentage of production from sustainable practices that improve soil health and agrobiodiversity, reporting progress against the targets and disclosing quantifiable data on its impact on soil health and agrobiodiversity.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
While the company discloses that its coffee and orange farmers are encouraged to optimise the use of pesticides and fertilisers, it has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment by setting targets to increase the percentage of production from sustainable practices that optimise use of fertilisers and pesticides, and reporting progress against the targets.

Water use
The company discloses a time-bound target in it 2019 Sustainability Report to reduce water usage by 1% annually from 2018-2022 which it reports against. The company has an opportunity to improve its performance by disclosing whether it is dependent on water-stressed areas and by requiring suppliers to reduce water withdrawal.

Food loss and waste
The company does not disclose that it is addressing food loss and waste in its own operations. The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment by demonstrating policies or activities that tackle food loss and waste.

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 discloses that a proportion of its juice producing operations are certified by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). To improve performance, the company should ensure that 100% of its operations are certified to a GFSI-recognised food safety scheme.

Child labour
While the company commits to prohibiting child labour in its own operations and requires its suppliers to adhere to the same standard, it has an opportunity to disclose a coordinated and consistent monitoring system for its for its own operations and supply chain.

Forced labour
While the company commits to prohibiting forced labour in its coffee supply chain it does not disclose a commitment to prohibit forced labour in other supply chains or in its own operations.

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 has a commitment to support the resilience and productivity of farmers, through its vocational training programmes for coffee farmers in Indonesia, Colombia and Brazil as well as its sustainable agriculture training programmes for farmers in Indonesia and Uganda. The company has an opportunity to improve its performance by quantitatively disclosing the impact of its support activities.

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.

Louis Dreyfus Company has grievance mechanisms for both workers and external stakeholders to raise human rights issues but the company do not commit to respecting human rights. Furthermore the company lacks disclosure of a due diligence processes to identify, assess and take action on human rights risks. Finally no evidence was found in the public domain in reference to Louis Dreyfus Company engaging with stakeholders whose human rights have been impacted by the activities of the company.

Louis Dreyfus Company has committed to respecting the health and safety of workers and expects its supply chain partners to do the same. However the company lacks disclosure on the topics of living wage, regulating working hours or collective bargaining. Finally while the company discloses some workforce diversity information it does not disclose the proportion of employees for each employee category by any indicators of diversity such as age, gender, race or ethnicity.

Louis Dreyfus Company has committed to protecting personal data and has a privacy statement on the use of personal data. In addition the company provides a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns. However the company does not have a publicly available policy statement prohibiting bribery and corruption. Furthermore Louis Dreyfus Company lacks disclosure on the topics of responsible tax, and lobbying and political engagement.