Muyuan Foods

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 stakeholder groups.

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.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company shares its efforts to enhance soil health or promote agrobiodiversity through its production or sourcing practices.

Water
The company discloses its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality.

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

Respect human rights
The company indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers.

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 to report (potential) misalignments.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
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, it could 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 does not commit to, or have any time-bound targets in place to achieve conversion-free supply chains. The company’s disclosure regarding activities to minimize ecosystem conversion is limited. Although they provide some evidence of addressing conversion, it does not necessarily indicate that their practices are aligned with DCF. Furthermore, they have not made any commitment to restore ecosystems. The company also fails to disclose specific details and outcomes of any ecosystem restoration projects carried out in areas affected by their operations or those of their suppliers.

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 states that it conducts rigorous environmental assessments before and during project construction, covering aspects such as local vegetation, wildlife, and soil erosion. It also conducts groundwater and soil pollution assessments for ecologically sensitive projects. However, there is an opportunity for the company to disclose the methodology and full results of these processes. While the company has a Code of Conduct for its suppliers that encourages biodiversity conservation and deforestation avoidance, there’s also an opportunity to assess and disclose the impact on nature in its upstream value chain. Additionally, the company has yet to assess or disclose its dependencies on nature within its own operations or its 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
While the company has pledged not to operate in world heritage sites and ecological red line zones, it has an opportunity to disclose the methodology used for identifying areas important for biodiversity. The company can also enhance transparency by disclosing the locations of its suppliers that are in or near areas significant for biodiversity. Furthermore, it has the opportunity to disclose species populations in both its own locations and those related to its suppliers, in alignment with national and international conservation lists.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company does not disclose its inputs, such as its material footprint, and also does not provide quantitative reports on its group-wide circularity performance. The company has a chance to disclose a target that focuses on enhancing soil health in its production or sourcing practices and then report on the progress made towards achieving 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 withdrawal or rights to water in its operations or supply chains. It has an opportunity to improve on its disclosure on water pollution by setting disclosing water pollutant metrics and setting time-bound targets to reduce them. The company does not disclose relevant information on 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 disclose a policy on bribery and corruption with anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its business relationships’ contracts. Additionally, it can establish a process to address these issues, along with a grievance mechanism for stakeholder complaints. Moreover, the company can demonstrate ethical practices by disclosing its approach to lobbying and political engagement, clarifying its non-participation in political contributions, and transparently revealing lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to its operations and supply chain workers’ health and safety by disclosing a policy statement and providing evidence of monitoring suppliers’ compliance. Additionally, it could set a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage, describes the living wage determination methodology, and discloses strategies to support suppliers in paying a living wage. Furthermore, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related targets. It could also disclose the representation of women on the highest governance body and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to human rights by disclosing a policy statement that respects fundamental human rights, and the International Labour Organization (ILO) fundamental rights at work, in its operations and supply chain. Additionally, the company could describe the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities, including its suppliers, as well as the process for assessing and identifying its salient human right issues. Moreover, the company could establish a global system to address these salient human rights issues by implementing preventive, mitigative, or remedial measures.