promoting responsible agricultural supply chains
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Promoting responsible agricultural supply chains
A FAO-OECD guidance1
Why Responsible Business Conduct?
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Obtain and retain the social license to operate
Reduce risks
Protect existing value and create new value
Facilitate the participation in GVCs
First-mover advantages
Attract and retain talent
Health
Sustainable use of natural resources
Technology and innovation
Tenure rights over and access to
natural resources
Animal welfare
Labour rights
Food security
POTENTIAL RISKS
Human rights
Governance
Risk-based due diligence
Major existing standards
• OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
• Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS-RAI)
• FAO Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT)
• Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment that respect rights, livelihoods and resources (PRAI)
• UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
• IFC Performance Standards
• ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy
• Convention on Biological Diversity 4
Risk mitigation measures
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Example of land tenure rights:
•Identify land tenure rights holders
•Consult and negotiate with them
•Be transparent and disclose information
•Avoid the displacement of local communities
•Fairly compensate evicted local communities
•Promote business partnerships
A supply chain approach
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FAO-OECD Guidance
• All enterprises along agricultural supply chains
A model enterprise policy
A five-step framework for risk-based due diligence
Risk mitigation measures and best practices
• Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group (AG)
June 2015Finalisation
October 2013AG meeting
June 2014AG meeting
March 2015AG meeting
Jan.- Feb. 2015Public consultation
Next stepsImplementation tools, peer learning platform, capacity building
