Nufarm

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. Additionally, it reports consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company reduces its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company demonstrates commitment, has policies or partakes in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging.

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

Water withdrawal
The company not only demonstrates its commitment to reducing water withdrawal in its own operations, but also reports the exact amount of water it withdraws in water-stressed areas.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company discloses the benefits of some of its seed technologies and aquaculture feed ingredients, including the provision of omega-3 fatty acids.

Workforce nutrition
The company has implemented a nutrition education programmes for its employees through webinars, guided discussion groups, and panel discussions.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. Moreover, the company has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company publicly commits to worker health and safety, extending this expectation to its business relationships, and revealing its monitoring approach. Additionally, it discloses the coverage of collective bargaining agreements among its direct operations workforce. Furthermore, the company provides the the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by age group, and by gender. It further discloses that it has 44.44% women on the board. The company targets a 35% representation of either gender in its workforce by 2025, and aims for a senior leadership composition of 40% females, 40% males and 20% from other gender identities 2030.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights and the ILO fundamental rights at work in its operations and supply chain. Moreover, the company has an established human rights grievance mechanism that is open to all employees, as well as all 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 and nature-related objectives; however, it has an opportunity to link this policy to improvement in social issues. Additionally, the company states that the board of directors has expertise in biodiversity. However, 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, ecosystem conversion, nutrition, and social inclusion.

Lobbying and advocacy
While the company discloses some trade associations, it has an opportunity to disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member of for all jurisdictions where it operates. 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 for engaging with each stakeholder, including frequencies and channels, beyond its materiality assessment.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate and social inclusion, 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 set targets to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions, specifically aiming to achieve a 30 percent reduction (absolute) from its manufacturing sites by 2030, using the fiscal year 2020 as the baseline. However, there is no evidence of the company having targets to reduce scope 1 and 2 emissions in its overall operations. It is recommended that the company reports its progress against these targets in alignment with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Additionally, the company has the potential to decrease its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, as well as set a time-bound target that is in alignment a 1.5-degree trajectory. Thereafter, the company has the opportunity to report its progress towards achieving this target.

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 the opportunity to set a specific deadline for reducing water withdrawal in its own operations and track its progress. Additionally, the company can engage with suppliers to also lower their water withdrawal.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose the outcomes of its nutrition-sensitive activities. This includes providing data that demonstrates how its initiatives are contributing to addressing malnutrition and increasing the availability and variety of nutrient-dense foods and crops.

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. Furthermore, it has an opportunity to implement a programme to offer healthy food options to its employees and to expand its nutrition initiatives to its supply chain workers.

Child labour
The company requires its suppliers to prohibit child labour and conducts audits which include age verification. However, it has an opportunity to include policy requirements for all suppliers to have an age-verification system in place. Furthermore, the company could disclose examples of remediation programmes when a case of child labour is found in its operations and indicate how it is building 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 a prohibition to pay recruitment fees or related costs to secure a job, to retain workers’ personal documents or to restrict workers’ freedom of movement for its operations and supply chain. Moreover, the company conducts investigations of overseas recruitment practices and procedures for foreign workers in Malaysia. However, it could 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.

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 describe its process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts. Additionally, it can establish a policy outlining its strategy for engaging in lobbying and political activities. Furthermore, while the company states that it makes political donations after approval from the chairman of the Board and the CEO, it could provide transparency by specifying the conditions under which these donations are permitted, clarifying the criteria for exceptions, and addressing any non-donation forms of political contributions. Moreover, the company could disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound objective for ensuring that all workers receive a living wage, or declare the achievement of this goal. Further, it could provide insight on its methods to determine a living wage in the regions where it operations. Although the company has established expectations on the wages paid by its supplies, it could augment this by requiring them to provide a living wage, along with the disclosure of how the company supports this payment.

Additionally, while the company has demonstrated commitment to equal opportunities and has taken steps towards gender equality and women’s empowerment, it could make an explicit commitment to these principles in a policy document. Moreover, the company can enhance transparency by disclosing the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women.

Respect human rights
While the company has identified one human rights risk and its impacts in its own operations, and discloses that a third party conducts its CSR assessments, It has an opportunity to describe its risk identification process in its operations and through relevant business relationships. It cold further describe how it assesses and identifies what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. Further, while the company discloses that it conducts risk assessments and remediates on a specific human right, it could disclose a global system to act on all its salient human rights issues in all its activities.