Bachoco

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

Solid and air pollution
The company demonstrates commitment related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging.

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

Act ethically
The company has a publicly available policy statement prohibiting bribery and corruption. It also provides an email id, a hotline number, and a website for reporting grievances, including bribery and corruption concerns and complaints without fear of reprisals.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses 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. Furthermore, it provides an email id, a hotline number and a website for reporting grievances related to human rights issues. Also, on visiting the website, it is clear that the channel is open for anyone to make a report, and there is a choice for the complainant to either remain anonymous or identify themselves.

Lobbying
The company does not report on its lobbying and advocacy practices on nature-related issues, nor 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 frequency and channels, for engaging with stakeholder groups beyond materiality assessment.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While the company states that it has a materiality assessment, it has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts. This should include how external stakeholders are involved in the process, how regularly the assessment is undertaken, and the outcome of the process. Also, it could disclose group wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain and report consistently against all its targets. Additionally, while the company states it has a sustainability committee, it could disclose having persons, teams or committees who are responsible for the implementation of its sustainability strategy and 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 improve its performance by disclosing 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 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against them. 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
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 activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices, to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and to report progress against it.

Solid and air pollution
While the company describes its activities to reduce plastic use and transition towards sustainable packaging, it has an opportunity to disclose the associated quantitative data.

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 could outline its method for identifying bribery and corruption risks and their impacts within specific locations or activities encompassing its internal operations. There’s also an opportunity for the company to enhance its ethical framework by incorporating anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses into contracts with its business relationships. Furthermore, the company could formalize its approach to lobbying and political engagement through a dedicated policy.

While the company mentions refraining from making political contributions, it could further strengthen this commitment by presenting it within a public policy document. Additionally, disclosing the expenditures related to lobbying activities would enhance transparency. Lastly, the company could communicate its expectation that third-party lobbyists adhere to its established lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company emphasizes worker health and safety, using more resolute language and formalizing this commitment in a public policy document would reinforce its dedication. It has the opportunity to reveal a supplier policy expecting commitment to worker well-being. Additionally, sharing how it monitors supplier health and safety performance would enhance transparency.

While fair wages are acknowledged, committing to a living wage with a time-bound target would strengthen the company’s stance. Disclosing the methodology for determining regional living wages and supporting suppliers in this regard could provide clarity. The company could also openly commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment, accompanied by time-bound goals. Moreover, it could strive for at least 30% female representation on its highest governing body. Lastly, it could disclose the gender-based salary ratio in its total direct workforce.

Respect human rights
The company’s existing policy statement commits to specific workers’ rights, but it could further enhance its stance by explicitly referencing all ILO fundamental rights at work. Moreover, there’s an opportunity for the company to disclose a policy statement that expects its suppliers to uphold the human rights declared by the ILO as fundamental rights at work.

The company has the potential to outline its approach for identifying human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, covering both its internal operations and its supply chain. Additionally, the company could elaborate on its methodology for identifying significant human rights concerns and could share the outcomes of its human rights risk assessment. Furthermore, there’s room for the company to disclose a comprehensive global framework designed to address, prevent, or mitigate its identified significant human rights issues.