Calavo Growers

Lobbying
The company discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member. It however has an opportunity to further show leadership by disclosing a full list of its trade associations for all jurisdictions where it operates.

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities and the channels it uses to engage with its stakeholders.

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

Solid and air pollution
The company has policies and partakes in activities related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging.

Water
The company reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas.

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

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.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available statement of policy that expects its business relationships to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. Additionally, 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 expecting suppliers to respect the ILO core labour rights. Additionally, the company indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

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

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. Also, it discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate. However, it could establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain and report consistently against all its targets. Additionally, 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 transparency 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 3 emissions as well as report against all of 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
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
The company does not disclose relevant information related to pollution in its operations or supply chains.

Water
The company has an opportunity to further improve water withdrawal by setting a time-bound target, disclosing water withdrawals in water-stressed areas, and engaging with suppliers. The company does not disclose relevant information on water pollution or rights 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 an opportunity to describe its process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in locations and activities covering its operation. Further, while the company has a mechanism for stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns, it is unclear if complainants can raise concerns without fear of reprisal. Additionally, it has an opportunity to have a policy setting out its lobbying and political engagement approach. It could further specify in a publicly available statement that it does not make political contributions, and divulge its expenditures on lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses a policy that it strives to provide workers a safe and healthy work environment. However, there is an opportunity to use stronger commitment language, and share details about how it monitors the health and safety performance of its suppliers.

Additionally, while the company states that it offers competitive wages, it has an opportunity to commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target. Relatedly, while it has set expectations on the wage paid by its suppliers, it could require and support its suppliers in paying its workers a living wage.

Moreover, while it is committed to equal opportunity, it could explicitly commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment. It could further disclose related time-bound targets, as well as information on ratio of basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement committing to respecting human rights and the ILO fundamental rights at work in its operations. Additionally, the company could describe a comprehensive process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities and supply chain. It could further explain how it assesses and identifies its salient human rights issues, and describe how relevant factors, such as geographical, economic and social, are considered. Moreover, it could also reveal a global system to prevent, mitigate or remediate its salient human rights issues.