RusAgro

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during its regular and ongoing stakeholder engagement activities as well as the engagement channels, for each stakeholder group.

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

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

Water withdrawal
The company demonstrates reducing water withdrawal in its own operations.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses a policy statement committing it to respect its workers’ health and safety and extends this expectation to its business relationships. The company discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements and the share of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by age group and by gender. Currently, women make up 40% of its Board of Directors.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company states that it has an ESG Officer. However, it has an opportunity to strengthen its sustainability governance and accountability by designating an individual or body to implement its sustainability strategy and by assigning decision-making and oversight to its highest governance body. It could link senior executives’ compensation to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. Additionally, it could disclose if the highest governance body has expertise in its 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.

Sustainable development strategy
The company states that it has a materiality assessment but could further disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts, including how external stakeholders are involved in the process. Furthermore, it could establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain and report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions.

Animal welfare
The company has an opportunity to set animal welfare targets applicable to all species, geographies and products.

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 multiple opportunities to promote water sustainability. Firstly, it can disclose a clear and time-bound target for reducing water withdrawal in its own operations, while also reporting on the progress made towards this target. Additionally, it can provide transparency by reporting the amount of water withdrawn in water-stressed areas. Lastly, it has the chance to collaborate with suppliers in order to decrease overall water withdrawal.

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.

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, it can disclose the percentage of its food suppliers that are certified to a GFSI-recognized food safety scheme.

Workforce nutrition
The company has an opportunity to disclose evidence of workforce nutrition programmes.

No risks were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships but does not specify the consequences of breaching these clauses. Additionally, it can establish a process to identify risks and impacts related to bribery and corruption, along with a confidential and anonymous mechanism accessible to all stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints without fear of reprisals.

Furthermore, the company could demonstrate ethical conduct by publishing a policy statement that outlines its approach to lobbying and political engagement and emphasises its non-participation in political contributions, or alternatively, states the criteria of exceptions. It could also transparently disclose all lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment to workers’ health and safety by providing evidence of monitoring suppliers’ compliance. Additionally, it could set a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage, describe the living wage determination methodology, and disclose strategies to support suppliers in paying a living wage.

Furthermore, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related time-bound targets. It could also disclose the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men in its total direct operations for each employee category.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to human rights by formalising its statement committing it to respect fundamental human rights into a formal policy document, and referencing all the International Labour Organization (ILO) fundamental rights at work, covering its operations and supply chain.

Additionally, the company could describe the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts in specific activities or locations, covering its operations and supply chain, as well as the process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues. Moreover, it could establish a global system to address these salient human rights issues by implementing preventive, mitigative, or remedial measures.