Race to the Top

•We have ongoing discussions with all 10 companies on the broader issues• Investors a key factor in achieving change•33 major investors, representing $1tn in assets called on companies to improve• Our tone is to be a critical friend and trigger a race to the top• Encouraged by the progress but long way to go to address tough issues like land rights and gender inequality

Behind the scorecard

• Only public policies and commitments on agricultural sourcing from developing countries

• Conditions on farms for workers, smallholders and women plus impact on communities

• But the Big 10 don’t run farms and few buy directly from farms

• Focus on being open and doing due diligence – essentially a measure of who’s being proactive in identifying and addressing issues in their supply chain

• Across the issues we assess:– Awareness– Knowledge– Commitments– Supply chain management

Behind the scorecard: limitations

1. We do not assess actual practice by suppliers, many thousands of suppliers we could not assess

2. We do not assess implementation/enforcement of company policies, public information not available on this

3. Non-public policies and practices were not considered

Behind the scorecard: process

STEP 1: Identify issues

1. Women farm workers and small-scale producers in supply chain2. Workers on farms in the supply chain3. Farmers (small-scale) growing the commodities4. Land, both rights and access to land and sustainable use of it5. Water, both rights and access to water resources and sustainable use of it6. Climate, both reducing GHG emissions and helping farmers adapt to climate change7. Transparency at a corporate level

STEP 2: Consulted the companies on what we wish to assess and our approach

STEP 3: Consulted industry experts, NGOs and academics

Behind the scorecard: process

STEP 4: Dutch NGO SOMO researched publicly available documents

STEP 5: Shared findings with companies and received feedback

STEP 6: Generated indicators

STEP 7: Shared indicators and assessments with companies

STEP 8: Calculated scores

- for each of the 7 issues

- overall (%) score

STEP 9: Launch, February 2013 – launch event at Bloomberg HQ, New York

STEP 10: Supporter and investor engagement

STEP 11: 6 monthly updates of scores and annual review of indicators

•Launched in Feb with focus on lack of policies to address gender inequality in supply chains•Focus on 3 chocolate companies: Nestle, Mars and Mondelez•Each committed to investing into understanding barriers faced by women farmers and develop plans to address these•Each committed to the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles

Successes with Chocolate industry

1.Mars, Mondelez and Nestle each committed to conducting impact assessments on

commodities where women play a key role;

2.6 out of 10 companies are now signatories of the UN Women’s Empowerment

Principles (previously only 2 companies were signatories), including Mars, Mondelez

and Nestle;

3.Mars, Mondelez and Nestle committed to develop and publish plans of action to

address gender inequities in their cocoa supply chains;

Other Successes

1.Unilever issued an Advancing Women’s Rights and Economic Inclusion statement,

which recognises that women have less access to land, water rights and finance; and

commits to providing training and implementing grievance mechanisms for women in

their supply chain.

2.Coca-Cola released its Sustainable Agricultural Guiding Principles, which guide

suppliers to improve their water management, prevent pollution and safeguard water

quality, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural practices.

3.Nestle released updated Supplier Guidelines where it has strengthened its support

of community land rights through endorsing the important principle of Free and Prior

Informed Consent for local communities.

Changes in scores after a year

Conclusions• Global food and beverage companies have enormous buying power• This buying power can benefit or harm women smallholder farmers in particular• Government regulation is critical; but so is consumer and public pressure• An engaged public CAN change company policies to empower, rather than displace smallholder

farmers• BtB has made an important start but there is obviously much more to be done

Southern Africa

• As global food and beverage companies expand their footprint in the region, both threats and opportunities present themselves

• SA based retail chains and brands also rapidly expanding in region• A lot of raw commodities they use are sourced in the region (eg sugar)• This change is both an opportunity and a threat to women farmers• A silent public = more potential harm to women farmers• An engaged public can harness this expanding footprint to reap more benefit for women farmers