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Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during its regular and ongoing engagement activities with stakeholders, which include capital providers, employees, suppliers, government, public interest groups, third-party certification and academic institutions.  It further discloses the engagement channels and frequencies, for each stakeholder group.

Sustainable development strategy
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts, along with the outcomes related to its sustainability strategy. It systematically applies the materiality principle and shares its material topics for 2021, covering economic, environmental, and social aspects.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company is focused on reducing its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions. It has also set a time-bound target to decrease these emissions and reports its progress towards achieving these targets.

Ecosystem conversion
The company discloses several activities aimed at achieving conversion-free supply chains. It prioritizes green products during procurement, follows the U.S. Soybean Sustainability Assurance Protocol, sources palm oil through an affiliated company certified by a third-party certification entity, and adheres to a No Net Deforestation principle as its maintenance policy at all operational sites.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company demonstrates commitment and partakes in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging. It also discloses quantitative data with regards to plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging.

Food safety
The company provides evidence that 100% of its own operations are certified to a Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI)-recognised food safety scheme.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company discloses a global tax strategy which covers compliance with applicable laws, payment of necessary taxes, assessment of tax related risks and its impact on business decisions and disclosure of tax information. It also has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business partners.

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 discloses quantitative information on the health and safety of its workers. It also discloses how it monitors the health and safety performance of its business relationships and the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights and the ILO core labour rights. It also respects the protection of other internationally proclaimed human rights, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Global Compact.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company discloses a remuneration policy related to non-financial indicators but can further link this policy to improvement in nature-related objectives and social issues. Furthermore, it has an opportunity to disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

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.

Sustainable development strategy
The company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including social inclusion and climate but it could establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. While it reports qualitative progress against all its targets, it has an opportunity to disclose quantitative information regarding its current status.

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. Additionally, it can reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, disclose a time-bound target for reduction, and report progress toward these scope 3 targets. Finally, the company should align its scope 3 emissions targets with the 1.5-degree trajectory.

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

Antibiotic use and growth promoting substances
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy on reducing the prophylactic use of antibiotics and growth promoting substances. It could also disclose targets to phase out the prophylactic use of antibiotics across all species, geographies and products and report progress against them.

Ecosystem conversion
The company has an opportunity to disclose time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to water use and 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 provides examples of reformulated products. However, there is potential for improvement in reporting its overall efforts to reduce sugar, salt, and fat, and/or increase the presence of fruits, vegetables, nuts and whole grains in its entire portfolio. Additionally, there is an opportunity for the company to adopt a nutrient profiling system and set a sales-based target to increase the proportion of more nutritious products, aligning with government-endorsed or externally-validated nutritional guidelines.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company has an opportunity to adopt front-of-pack labels or any other consumer-facing nutrition labels that support consumers with making healthier food choices. Additionally, it can disclose the percentage of products for which its front-of-pack labelling schemes have been rolled out.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to disclose the percentage of food suppliers certified to a GFSI-recognized food safety scheme.

Responsible marketing
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to responsible marketing and its marketing activities to promote healthy food options.

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. Specifically, it could prohibit the payment of recruitment fees, the retention of workers’ personal documents, and the restriction of 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. It could also disclose a confidential and anonymous mechanism accessible to all stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns and complaints without fear of reprisals.

Additionally, the company has an opportunity to have a policy setting out its lobbying and political engagement approach and disclose a publicly available policy statement that specifies that it does not make political contributions. Furthermore, it could disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement that expects its suppliers to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. While the company states that it has established a competitive market remuneration system, it has an opportunity to commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target and disclose how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. Additionally, 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.

It could also disclose a public commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment, and a time-bound target related to these goals. Lastly, it has an opportunity to disclose the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement that expects its suppliers to commit to respecting the ILO’s fundamental rights at work.

It could also describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, covering its own operations and supply chain. The company discloses its salient human rights issues; however, it has an opportunity to disclose the process for assessing the saliency of these risks more clearly. Furthermore, the company could disclose the results of its human rights risk assessment and a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.