Amaggi Group

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.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company is committed to achieving conversion-free supply chains and has set specific time-bound goals in place. To ensure transparency, the company consistently discloses the percentage of high-risk commodities that are conversion-free. Detailed information regarding ecosystem restoration projects, including those in areas affected by the company’s operations or suppliers, are disclosed, highlighting the outcomes and progress made.

GHG emissions
The company has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions.

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

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company is committed to respect Indigenous Peoples’ rights. Also, the company discloses its processes to identify and recognise the rights of Indigenous Peoples when activities in its own operations may impact their rights, and describes how it obtains Indigenous Peoples’ free, prior and informed consent.

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption and includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. Additionally, it has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption.

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 expects its business relationships to do so. Moreover, the company discloses the proportion of its workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements, and reports the percentage of its workforce for each employee category by age group, gender, and disability

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement that requires suppliers to respect the core labour rights outlined by the International Labour Organization (ILO). Furthermore, the company has implemented a human rights grievance mechanism, which is accessible to both workers within the company and external stakeholders who may be negatively affected by the company’s operations.

Lobbying
While the company provides some trade associations, it has an opportunity disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member for all jurisdictions where it operates. Furthermore, the company has an opportunity to report (potential) misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Stakeholder engagement
The company does not disclose how it engages with stakeholders, nor the issues it raises during such activities.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including ecosystem conversion and climate, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Also, although it reports consistently against all its targets, it could disclose a baseline year for all its targets. 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, the company could improve its transparency by disclosing whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company is not committed to restoring ecosystems.

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

Impact and dependencies assessment
While the company acknowledges the potential impacts of its farming enterprises on native vegetation and biodiversity, and even undertakes studies focused on cotton cultivation areas, it has an opportunity to expand this to a comprehensive assessment covering all its operations. Furthermore, the company has yet to disclose assessments regarding the impact or dependency on nature and biodiversity within its supply chain and own operations.

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
While the company reveals the proportion of species population at its Tanguro farm, there’s an opportunity to further disclose species populations in or near its locations, their status based on national and international conservation lists, and species populations near its suppliers. Moreover, the company could benefit from revealing supplier locations adjacent to biodiversity-important areas.

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 does not disclose relevant information related to pollution in its operations or supply chains.

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

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
While the company possesses an effective method for pinpointing impacted indigenous communities via mapping, it falls short in explaining its process for securing the Indigenous Peoples’ free, prior, and informed consent concerning project execution. Additionally, the company does not mandate that its business relationships establish a procedure to recognize legitimate tenure rights holders, especially vulnerable or marginalized individuals, and engage in negotiations to offer appropriate compensation.

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 could describe the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations.

While the company outlines its approach to political engagement in a policy, it has an opportunity to outline its lobbying approach in a policy. Moreover, although it states that it makes political contributions after approval from the legal department and the CEO. However, the company could disclose whether these are made only by exception, and the criteria for making them. Additionally, it could disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities and that it requires third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
The company could demonstrate how it monitors its suppliers’ performance to health and safety standards.

Moreover, the company could detail how it determines a living wage for the regions it operates in and how it encourages its suppliers to pay a living wage. Furthermore, the company could also disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage.

Regarding gender equality, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related targets. The company could disclose the representation of women on the highest governance body and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men by significant locations of operation.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights. However, it could improve the language to turn this into a formal commitment. Furthermore, while the company publicly commits to respect specific workers’ rights, it has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work.

Moreover, while the company discloses that it conducts due diligence in general, it has an opportunity to specify that it conducts human rights due diligence that includes a process for identifying human rights risks and impacts in its supply chain. The company could describe the process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, covering its own operations and what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. Additionally, it could disclose the results of its human rights risk assessment. Furthermore, it could also disclose a global system to act on, prevent or mitigate its salient human rights issues.