Nutreco

Lobbying and advocacy
The company discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member. However, it should make clear whether this list is comprehensive and covers all regions of its operations. By doing so, the company can strengthen its due diligence efforts regarding the trade associations it supports.

Stakeholder engagement
Nutreco’s stakeholder engagement includes those related to nature, nutrition, and social aspects. This comprehensive approach underscores the company’s commitment to addressing a diverse range of sustainability considerations while maintaining open and effective stakeholder relationships.

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 actively has set time-bound targets towards reducing its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The company also provides regular reports on the progress it has made in relation to these targets. In addition, the company has established a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions. The company has an opportunity to improve its performance by aligning its GHG emissions reduction targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Ecosystem conversion
The company’s conversion-free target covers all its high-risk commodities. It also discloses some activities and time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. The company discloses the proportion of high-risk commodities which are conversion-free.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company partakes in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging.

Water withdrawal
Nutreco actively demonstrates its commitment to responsible water management by implementing measures to reduce water withdrawal within its own operational activities. This proactive approach reflects the company’s dedication to sustainable water usage.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company discloses evidence of its initiative to increase the accessibility of sustainably produced local catfish in Rwanda.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company discloses how it works closely with smallholder dairy farmers in India and links them more closely with markets through its Stellapps technology-led platform services which includes a grading and pricing system, advisory and input services, and financial services. Also, it reports the impacts of its Catfish Sustainability Project in Nigeria that has led to farmer groups successfully initiating new cooperatives and helped farmers to improve the survival of their fish stocks and the feed conversion ratio, boosting their profits by 86.18%.

Act ethically
The company discloses a public commitment to protect personal data and discloses 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 also 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 it also expects its business relationships to do so. Furthermore, the company discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements. Additionally, the company publicly commits to gender equality and women’s empowerment and targets to achieve 30% women in senior leadership by 2025. Also, it discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category.

Respect human rights
The company provides two examples of its engagement with stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities in the last two years. Furthermore, 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 nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. Furthermore, while it that the board of directors has expertise in climate and nutrition, it has an opportunity to disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics including 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.

Stakeholder engagement
While the company discloses the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities in its 2021 Sustainability Report, it could disclose the topics raised by its stakeholders and the engagement channels in its latest Sustainability Report.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate, ecosystem conversion 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 the opportunity to align its scope 1 and 2 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory and reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, the company can report progress against these scope 3 targets, ensuring they are also aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

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
While the company describes its activities to reduce plastic use and transition towards sustainable packaging, it has an opportunity to disclose the associated quantitative data.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company has an opportunity to disclose activities and targets to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices, and report progress against them.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to set a time-bound target for reducing water withdrawal in its own operations and to regularly report on the progress made towards achieving the target. Additionally, the company can also disclose the amount of water withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. Furthermore, the company has the chance to actively collaborate with its suppliers to find ways to reduce 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 the opportunity to demonstrate its commitment and showcase evidence of how its activities contribute to addressing malnutrition and food insecurity.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate that 100% of its own operations are certified to a GFSI food safety scheme/certification programme or other widely recognised (industry-specific) certification. Additionally, the company can disclose the percentage of their food suppliers that are certified to a GFSI-recognized food safety scheme.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has set up initiatives to improve the productivity of the smallholder dairy farmers and small-scale catfish farmers but has an opportunity to demonstrate how it improves their 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. 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 could describe the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. Moreover, while the company has policy statement setting out its political engagement approach, it could also set out its lobbying approach in a policy statement.
Furthermore, the company has a publicly available policy stating that it does not make contributions to local, regional or national political fundraising events, however, the fundraising events are one of the aspects of political contributions and it could disclose a publicly available policy statement that specifies that it does not make political contributions. Additionally, it could disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities and could require third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company states that it pays minimum wage to its employees, it has an opportunity to commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target. Additionally, the company has an opportunity to disclose how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. Furthermore, while the company has set expectations on the wage paid by its suppliers, it has an opportunity to add a requirement for them to pay a living wage, and disclose how it supports the payment. Moreover, it could also disclose the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category, by significant locations of operation.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available statement committing it to respect human rights and the ILO’s fundamental rights at work. However, it has an opportunity to place it in a formal policy document and use stronger language to turn the statement into a formal commitment. Similarly while the company sets its expectation from its business relationships to commit to the latter, it has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work.
Moreover, the company has identified one or some human rights risks and impacts in its own operations. It thus has an opportunity to describe the risk identification process for its own operations and also for 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.