Minerva

Stakeholder engagement
The company’s stakeholder engagement activities cover nature, food safety, and social areas.

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.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company discloses its target to reach net zero emissions for its scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions by 2035.

Animal welfare
The company discloses evidence of animal welfare third-party certifications or audits. It also discloses targets that addresses animal welfare issues in its supply chain, applicable to all species, geographies and products, and reports progress against the target.

Ecosystem conversion
The company has time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains.

Workforce nutrition
The company has implemented a nutrition education program to its employees.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups
The company has disclosed that it organized campaigns focusing on women’s health. Additionally, it is supporting socially vulnerable and disabled employees through its project, as stated in its disclosure.

Act ethically
The company discloses a public commitment to protect personal data and a privacy statement on the use of personal data. Furthermore, the company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. Additionally, it has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption. Moreover, it specifies that it does not make political contributions and also discloses its lobbying expenditures. Lastly, the company discloses that it requires third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement in which it commits to respecting the health and safety of workers and expects its business relationships to do so. Additionally, it discloses quantitative information on the health and safety of its workers.

Moreover, it discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements and also the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by age and gender group. Lastly, the company discloses the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights. Furthermore, the company engages with stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities. Additionally, the company indicates it has 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 link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover environmental and social issues. Furthermore, it could 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 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 discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate; however, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Moreover, while it reports against some targets including climate and animal welfare, it has an opportunity to report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has the opportunity to decrease its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions and report its progress towards these targets. Additionally, it could align its scope 1 and 2 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Furthermore, the company has the opportunity to report progress towards its scope 3 GHG emissions targets and align the latter with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Ecosystem conversion
The company does not disclose activities to achieve conversion-free supply chains.

Food loss and waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose its food loss and waste (FLW) reduction targets and report progress against them. Additionally, the company can 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.

Protein diversification
The company has an opportunity to set a sales-based target to increase alternative proteins across its portfolio, as well as report progress against this target.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to provide quantitative evidence of reduced water withdrawal in its own operations. Currently, the company discloses reduction targets related to water consumption, absolute water use, and water intensity. However, it could also disclose a target for reducing water withdrawal across its operations and regularly report on its progress. Additionally, the company could provide information on the amount of water withdrawn specifically in water-stressed areas. Furthermore, the company has the chance to collaborate with suppliers to decrease 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 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 adopt front-of-pack labels or any other consumer- facing nutrition labels that support consumers with making healthier food choices. Additionally, it has an opportunity to disclose the percentage of products for which its front-of-pack labelling schemes have been rolled out.

Workforce nutrition
The company could disclose the length covered by its parental leave policy, as well as any other breastfeeding supports such as dedicated breastfeeding rooms or flexible working hours for breastfeeding mothers. While the company offers onsite meals and food vouchers to its employees, it has an opportunity to provide more information if the foods offered are healthy. Furthermore, the company has an opportunity to expand its nutrition initiatives to its supply chain workers.

Child labour
The company has a due diligence system on child labour in place for its operations. However, it has an opportunity to disclose practical examples of how it enables children to attend education or to improve working conditions for young workers. It could also 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 set up initiatives to improve the productivity and sustainability of the farms but it has an opportunity to demonstrate how it improves farmers’ income resilience through its procurement practices and supply chain relationships. Also, it could demonstrate how it identifies living income benchmarks and assesses 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.

Act ethically
The company states that it assessed risks related to corruption in its South America operation and is currently developing assessment for its Australian operations. However, it could describe the process to identify its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering all its own operations. Additionally, the company has an opportunity to have a policy setting out its lobbying and political engagement approach.

Provide and promote decent work
The company could specify how it tracks its suppliers’ health and safety performance. It says compensation is based on market standards to attract and retain talent, with salaries adjusted annually via collective bargaining. Yet, it has room to commit to a living wage through a time-bound target. It could also detail its methodology for calculating living wages in its operational regions and how it encourages suppliers to pay a living wage.

While the company emphasizes diversity, it could make a clear commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment, and set time-bound targets for these goals. The company’s website states its board is entirely male, providing an opportunity to commit to having at least 30% female board representation.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect specific workers’ rights and expects its business relationships to do so, but has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work. Furthermore, the company has an opportunity to describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, covering its own operations and its supply chain.

Additionally, the company could describe its process for assessing and identifying what it considers to be its salient human rights issues and could also disclose the results of its human rights risk assessment. Lastly, it could disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.