2023 Food and Agriculture Benchmark

For a small subset of companies in the upstream segments of the food and agricultural value chain that have a more indirect or even limited impact on nutrition, the weighting approach the weighting of the nutrition measurement area is 20% and the remaining 10% is allocated evenly to the environment and social inclusion measurement areas. [...] The company needs to meet four criteria to score on this element: it must score in either the B1 or B2 indicators (Assessment of impacts on nature or nature dependencies), in at least one of the indicators from the environment measurement area), in at least one of the indicators from C1 to C4 (nutrition indicators), and in at least one of the indicators from the social inclusion measurement area. [...] For example, it might describe that the Board reviews the sustainability strategy, or that a specific member of the Board is also the Chair of the Sustainability Committee. [...] The company discloses commitments on the production and/or sourcing of seafood which include the criteria used to define the level of sustainability of its portfolio or linked to the types of certification schemes, ratings or programmes used by the company. [...] Fertiliser and pesticide use The company demonstrates that it is optimising the use of fertilisers and minimising the use of pesticides.