Sunkist Growers

No leading practices were identified in the governance and strategy area.

No leading practices were identified in the environment area.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company primarily produces and markets fresh produce. The production of fruit and vegetables contributes to healthy and sustainable diets.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company shows support for increasing farmers’ bargaining power by offering various resources to its cooperative farmers. These include a global market, an established brand, access to a global transportation system, research capabilities, and assistance in gaining access to new markets.

Act ethically
The company discloses a phone number accessible to all stakeholder for reporting grievances without fear of reprisals. Also, it states that the complainant has the option to remain anonymous or identify themselves.

Respect human rights
The company states that it has a human rights grievance mechanism that is accessible to all workers. It is also accessible to all external stakeholders who may be adversely affected by the company.

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 disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member. Furthermore, the company can provide a clear and detailed framework for assessing the alignment of these 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
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.

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.

Food loss and waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose its food loss and waste (FLW) reduction targets and report progress against these targets. Additionally, it can consider aligning 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 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 or sourcing practices, and report progress against them.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to water use and withdrawal.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to address food insecurity and malnutrition.

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.

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

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 disclose a policy on bribery and corruption, and include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. It could also disclose its processes for identifying and addressing bribery and corruption, along with implementing a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise related complaints. Additionally, the company could disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement, specifying that it does not make political contributions and divulging its lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy commitment to respecting the health and safety of workers across both its operations and supply chain. Moreover, it could strengthen this by presenting evidence of its monitoring of suppliers’ adherence to health and safety standards.

Furthermore, there’s room for the company to enhance its transparency by revealing a time-bound target for paying a living wage for all employees. The company could effectively work towards this objective by disclosing the process of determining the living wage in various operational regions. Additionally, it could illuminate its collaboration with suppliers to ensure the implementation of living wage practices.

While the company has a statement on gender equality and women’s empowerment, it has an opportunity to translate the latter in a public policy document. To reinforce this commitment, it could disclose related targets while showcasing the representation of women on its highest governance body.

Respect human rights
The company states that it respects the ILO’s fundamental rights at work. However, it has an opportunity to place it in a formal policy document. Furthermore, it could disclose a policy statement that mandates its suppliers to uphold the human rights declared fundamental by the ILO. In addition, it could provide a description of the process it follows to identify human rights risks and impacts, encompassing both its internal operations and its supply chain.

Moreover, the company could outline the process it employs to assess and pinpoint its key human rights concerns. To bolster its transparency, the company might consider revealing the outcomes of its human rights risk assessment.

Expanding on its global perspective, it could disclose a system that encompasses actions, prevention, and mitigation strategies for its significant human rights issues.