Agrifirm

Sustainability strategy and accountability
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.

GHG emissions
The company has targets to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions and reports progress against them.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion and community impact area.

Act ethically
The company offers an email ID and website where individuals can report concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption, ensuring protection against reprisals. Upon visiting the website, it becomes evident that the channel is accessible to everyone for reporting purposes. Complainants have the option to either remain anonymous or identify themselves when making a report.

Provide and promote decent work
The company openly states that it mandates suppliers to provide a wage that takes into account the necessities of both workers and their families. In terms of gender equality, the company divulges the percentage of women across various employee categories within its direct operations workforce. Additionally, the company highlights that out of its 8 board members, 3 are female, resulting in a 37.5% representation of women on the board.

Respect human rights
The company offers an email address and a website for reporting grievances. Upon visiting the website, it is evident that they provide an open channel for individuals to submit reports. Additionally, the complainant has the option to remain anonymous or choose to identify themselves.

Lobbying
The company has an opportunity disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member. Additionally, it has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets and report (potential) misalignments.

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 frequency and channels, for engaging with stakeholder groups beyond materiality assessment.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate. However, there is an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain and report consistently against all its targets. Additionally, it could assign decision-making and oversight responsibility for its sustainability strategy to the highest governance body. Furthermore, 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. Lastly, it could disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
No evidence was found regarding the company’s efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation, or promote restoration. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

GHG emissions
The company should set time-bound targets to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against them. Crucially, the company needs to reduce its scope 3 emissions and all its scope 1, 2 and 3 targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Impact and dependencies assessment
The company has an opportunity to disclose assessments of its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations and in its supply chain. It also has the opportunity to disclose its dependencies on nature within its own operations and upstream business relationships.

Invasive species
The company has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.

Key areas and species
The company has an opportunity to disclose locations within or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity, both in its own operations and its supplier locations. It could also disclose existing species populations existing in or adjacent to both its own and its suppliers’ locations, as well as the conservation status of species identified at its own sites according to national and international lists.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company has an opportunity to disclose its inputs according to an international standard, and to report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. The company also has an opportunity to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and to report progress against it.

Solid and air pollution
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging.

Water
The company does not disclose relevant information related to water, in its operations or supply chains.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company does not show if it is committed to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights or land rights of local communities.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
The company has an opportunity to commit to respecting local communities’ right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and to zero tolerance for acts of violence, threats, intimidation or judicial harassment committed against land and environmental rights defenders. Moreover, it should track its actual or potential negative impacts on the health of local communities.

Act ethically
The company has the chance to publicly disclose a policy statement that explicitly prohibits bribery and corruption. It could also outline a comprehensive process for identifying potential bribery and corruption risks and their impact, particularly in certain locations or activities that are part of the company’s own operations. Additionally, there is an opportunity for it to include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships.

Furthermore, the company can establish a policy that clearly outlines its approach to lobbying and political engagement. To enhance transparency, it can publicly disclose a policy statement stating that it does not make political contributions. Moreover, the company has the option to disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities. Lastly, it has the ability to enforce its lobbying and political engagement policy by requiring third-party lobbyists to adhere to its guidelines.

Provide and promote decent work
The company currently demonstrates a commitment to worker safety and health but could enhance this commitment by formalizing it in a publicly accessible policy document. Similarly, while it expects its business relationships to uphold the same standards, transforming this expectation into a clear policy commitment would increase transparency.

Furthermore, the company can improve by establishing time-bound targets for paying all workers a living wage and sharing its methodology for determining living wages in various regions. This would underscore its dedication to fair compensation practices and workers’ well-being.

In addition, a public commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment, along with specific, time-bound targets, would illustrate the company’s dedication to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement committing it to respect human rights, including the fundamental rights declared by the ILO. It can also reference these rights in a formal policy document. Furthermore, the company can describe its process for identifying human rights risks in specific locations and its supply chain. It can specify that its due diligence includes addressing human rights risks. Additionally, the company could disclose its process for identifying salient human rights issues and share the results of its human rights risk assessment. Finally, it has the chance to reveal a global system to address and prevent salient human rights issues.