Groupe Limagrain

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

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

Water
The company reports a decrease in water pollution, notably through the retention containers for polluted water, treatment basins and a sludge management process.

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

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption. It identifies bribery and corruption risks by utilising a comprehensive system, which includes a detailed risk map for influence-peddling and corruption. Additionally, it has a public policy statement that specifies its non-participation in political contributions.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement in which it commits to respecting the health and safety of its workers. Furthermore, it reports 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’s fundamental rights at work.

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 its materiality assessment.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While Groupe Limagrain 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, the company has an opportunity to disclose group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain and report consistently against all its targets. Furthermore, although the company discloses a remuneration policy related to non-financial goals, it could link this policy to improvement in nature-related objectives and social issues. Lastly, the company 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 Groupe Limagrain’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
Groupe Limagrain 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
While Groupe Limagrain conducted a biodiversity audit in Saint-Beauzire and a subsequent assessment to evaluate progress in implementing biodiversity-friendly measures, it has an opportunity to assess and disclose its impacts on nature, including biodiversity, within its own operations and upstream business relationships. Additionally, the company has an opportunity to assess and disclose its dependencies on nature within its operations and upstream business relationships, including the methodology and results of these assessments.

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 Groupe Limagrain has implemented environmental prevention and management plans across all sites and boasts ISO 14001 certification at three manufacturing locations, it remains vital to disclose locations proximate to biodiversity-critical zones. Additionally, to enhance transparency, the company could consider revealing both its own and its suppliers’ operations adjacent to these vital biodiversity areas and share the conservation status of species in its vicinity, adhering to national and international standards.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
No evidence was found regarding Groupe Limagrain’s efforts to work towards a circular economy or which organisms it exploits. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

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 withdrawal or rights to water in its operations or supply chains. It has an opportunity to improve its disclosure of water pollution by disclosing water pollutant metrics and setting time-bound targets to reduce them.

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
Groupe Limagrain has an opportunity to include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. Furthermore, while the company has a mechanism for stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns, it could further clarify if this mechanism is accessible to all stakeholders and if complainants have the option to identify themselves or remain anonymous.

Moreover, the company can demonstrate ethical conduct by publishing a policy statement that outlines its approach to lobbying and political engagement and transparently disclosing all lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
Groupe Limagrain has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment to workers’ health and safety by extending the expectation to its business relationships and providing evidence of monitoring their compliance. Additionally, it could set a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage, describe the living wage determination methodology for regions where it operates, and disclose strategies to support suppliers in paying a living wage.

Furthermore, it has an opportunity to translate its commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment into a public policy document and disclose a related time-bound target. It could disclose that it has at least 30% women on the Board of Directors and report the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
Groupe Limagrain has an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to human rights by disclosing a policy document that respects fundamental human rights and the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) fundamental rights at work in its operations.

Additionally, the company could describe the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts in specific activities or locations, covering both its operation and value chain, as well as the process for assessing and identifying its salient human rights issues. Moreover, the company could establish a global system to address these salient human rights issues by implementing preventive, mitigative, or remedial measures.