Tokyo Seika

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

No leading practices were identified in the environment area.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

No leading practices were identified in the core social indicators area.

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 an overview of the issues raised by each stakeholder group during its stakeholder engagement activities and to describe its process, including frequencies and channels, for engaging with stakeholder groups beyond materiality assessment.

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, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions, and set time-bound targets aligned with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degree pathway.

Food loss and waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose its food loss and waste (FLW) reduction targets and report progress made towards achieving these targets. Additionally, it can align its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction in FLW 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 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.

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 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 establish 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 the opportunity to disclose forced labour requirements for its operations and supply chain. Specifically, it could prohibit the payment of recruitment fees, the retention of workers’ personal documents, and the restriction of workers’ freedom of movement. Furthermore, 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.

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 on worker health and safety in its operations and supply chain, and provide evidence on how it monitors supplier compliance. Additionally, it could set a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or state that it has achieved this goal. 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, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment, and disclose related time-bound targets, along with information on the representation of women on the highest governance body, and ratio of basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement that commits to respecting human rights recognized as fundamental rights at work by the ILO, and extend this expectation to its suppliers.

Additionally, the company has the chance to describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts covering both its own operations and its supply chain. It can also outline a process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues. Finally, it could establish a global system to address its salient human rights issues.