Mosaic

Lobbying and advocacy
The company discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member wherever it operates.

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities and states the frequencies and channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups. Furthermore, the company’s stakeholder engagement covers nature, nutrition, and social issues.

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 has set a target to reduce its absolute greenhouse gas emissions (Scope 1 and 2) by 20% compared to 2015 levels by 2025. Additionally, the company aims to achieve net zero emissions by 2040. To track its progress, the company consistently reduces its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions compared to the previous year and reports on its progress towards meeting these targets.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company discloses quantitative evidence on optimizing the use of fertilizers in its production practices and reports progress against a target to optimize their use.

Water withdrawal
The company actively works towards reducing water withdrawal in its own operations. It has also set a specific time-bound target for reducing water withdrawal and regularly report its progress in achieving this target.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company discloses a public commitment to protect personal data. Furthermore, it has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, and incorporates anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. Additionally, the company identifies bribery and corruption risks by means of a due diligence process, regular audits and periodic FCPA audits. Moreover, it has has 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 in which it commits to respecting the health and safety of workers, and extends this commitment to its business relationships. Additionally, the company discloses quantitative information on the health and safety of its workers.

Furthermore, the company discloses the proportion of its workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements, as well as the percentage of its workforce for each employee category by age group and gender. The company sets a target to achieve 30 percent women in the workplace and 30 percent growth in leadership diversity by 2030.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights and the ILO core labour rights. Furthermore, the company indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company’s activities.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company discloses a remuneration policy related to sustainability performance but can further link this policy to improvement in nature-related objectives. While stating that the board of directors has the expertise in sustainability, there is an opportunity for the company to disclose whether its highest governance body has specific expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics including nutrition, climate, water, soil health, social inclusion, ecosystem conversion and biodiversity.

Lobbying and advocacy
The company has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets. Additionally, it can report any (potential) misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate, social inclusion, nutrition, and water, 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 chance to align its scope 1 and 2 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Additionally, it has the opportunity to decrease its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions and disclose a time-bound target to achieve this. Moreover, the company can report its progress towards these scope 3 targets, ensuring they are aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

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 activities and targets to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production practices, and report progress against them.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to report the amount of water it withdraws for its own operations in water-stressed areas and engage with suppliers to reduce these withdrawals.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to engage in nutrition-sensitive activities that contribute to increasing the nutritional quality and/or variety of foods.

Workforce nutrition
While the company has health and wellbeing promotion programs for its employees it has an opportunity to enhance the program by incorporating nutrition-focused health checks or nutrition education. It could also 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. Furthermore, it discloses its meal programme for employees but could provide more information on whether the meals are healthy/nutritious, how it defines healthy offerings and ensures accessibility for its employees.

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
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
While the company has a policy outlining its political engagement approach and has stated that it follows laws related to lobbying activities, it has an opportunity to outline its lobbying approach in a public policy statement. Furthermore, although the company states that it complies with all laws governing political contributions and does not make political contributions in Brazil, it could disclose a policy statement that it does not make political contributions in all regions where it operates. Moreover, the company could disclose its expenditures related to lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company screens, selects, and audits contractors using the ISNetworld Rating, a global system that verifies conformance to regulatory and company-prescribed health and safety standards, it could clarify whether it applies this system to screening, selecting, and auditing suppliers as well.

Additionally, while the company states that it pays above the minimum wage to its employees, it has an opportunity to commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target, and disclose how it determines a living wage in the regions where it operates. Moreover, the company could add a requirement for its suppliers to pay a living wage and reveal the support it provides for such payments.

Furthermore, while the company advocates equal opportunity, it has the opportunity to publicly commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment in a broader sense.

Respect human rights
The company expects its suppliers to respect the ILO fundamental rights at work, but could use a stronger language to turn the statements into a formal commitment. Additionally, while the company discloses that it conducts due diligence in general, it has an opportunity to specify that it conducts human rights due diligence that includes a process for identifying human rights risks and impacts within its operations and its supply chain. The company could also outline its process for assessing and identifying what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. Moreover, the company could disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.