New Hope Group

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.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses the proportion of its workforce for each employee category by age group and gender.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to report on sustainability accountability within its governance structure.

Lobbying and advocacy
The company has an opportunity to report on its lobbying and advocacy practices on sustainability-related issues, and whether these activities align with its sustainability strategy.

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 sustainability strategy with nature and social-related targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to disclose reductions in Scope 1 and 2 and Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, and set time-bound targets aligned with the Paris agreement’s 1.5 degree pathway.

Animal welfare
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment and targets that address key animal welfare issues in its supply chain.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate that it is adopting sustainable production practices and setting targets to optimise the use of fertilizers and pesticides.

Food loss and waste
The company has the chance to disclose its FLW reduction target and report progress against this goal. 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 enhance its disclosures relating to plastic use reduction and its transition towards 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.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to soil health and agrobiodiversity.

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 disclose its commitment to food safety and demonstrate that its operations and supply chain adhere to food safety standards.

Responsible marketing
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to responsible marketing and its marketing activities to promote healthy food options.

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to prohibit child labour in its supply chain and an age-verification system for its value chain. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts.

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.

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
The company has an opportunity to reveal a policy that prohibits bribery and corruption, while also incorporating anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses into contracts involving business relationships. Moreover, it could also outline its process for identifying risks and impacts associated with bribery and corruption. Additionally, while the company has a mechanism for stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns, it could clarify that this mechanism is accessible to all stakeholders and that the complainant can choose to reveal their identities or remain anonymous.

Furthermore, the company could choose to disclose a policy that outlines its approach towards lobbying and political engagement. It could explicitly state that it refrains from making any political contributions and provide insight into the amount it allocates to lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company states that it respects the health and safety of workers, it could formalise this commitment in a public policy document. The company can extend this expectation to its supply chain, and provide evidence on how it monitors supplier compliance.

Additionally, while the company states that it provides short-term salaries to its workers which include wages and other benefits, it has an opportunity to commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target. The company could also explain its method for determining a living wage in each region and how it supports suppliers in ensuring their workers receive a living wage.

Moreover, while the company advocates gender equality and undertakes women’s empowerment initiatives, it has an opportunity to explicitly commit to these objectives, set related time-bound targets, and report data ,including the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has the opportunity to disclose a policy statement that commits to respecting human rights. Additionally, while the company commits to respect the right not to be subject to discrimination, it has an opportunity to place this statement in a formal policy document, and reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work. The company could further extend the same expectation to its business relationships.

Furthermore, the company could articulate a comprehensive process for identifying risks and impacts related to human rights throughout all its activities and the supply chain. It could also elaborate on how it evaluates and identifies its salient human rights issues, and provide insight into how it considers relevant factors such as geographic, economic, and social aspects. Moreover, the company could unveil a global system designed to prevent, mitigate, or address its salient human rights issues.