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Name of Resource | The Behind the Brands Company Scorecard |
Type | Monitoring mechanism |
Country / jurisdiction | Global |
Organization | OXFAM |
Date of publishing | 2016 |
Description | The Behind the Brands Scorecard assesses the agricultural sourcing policies of the world's 10 largest food and beverage companies. It exclusively focuses on publicly available information that relates to the policies of these companies on their sourcing of agricultural commodities from developing countries. The initiative based its selection on companies with the largest overall revenues globally, as well as their position in the Forbes 2000 annual ranking, which measures companies on the basis of composite sales, assets, profits and market value. The ten companies assessed in the Scorecard (in order of company size) are Nestle, PepsiCo, Unilever, Mondelez, Coca-Cola, Mars, Danone, Associated British Foods, General Mills and Kellogg’s. |
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Name of Resource | The European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) |
Type | Platform for co-operation, knowledge/information hub |
Country / jurisdiction | Europe |
Organization | The European Coalition for Corporate Justice |
Date of publishing | 2006 |
Description | With 21 member groups representing over 250 organizations from 15 countries, the European Coalition for Corporate Justice is an European coalition bringing together campaigns and national platforms of NGOs, trade unions, consumer organization and academics in order to promote corporate accountability. The Coalition is guided by a vision of a sustainable world in which corporations’ drive for profit is balanced with the interests of society at large, and where businesses respect human, social and environmental rights. |
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Name of Resource | The Fair Food Program / Fair Food Code of Conduct |
Type | Policy, Platform for co-operation/advocacy, Monitoring / Enforcement mechanism |
Country / jurisdiction | United States of America |
Organization | Coalition of Immokalee Workers |
Date of publishing | 2001 |
Description | The Fair Food Program emerged from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Campaign for Fair Food, a campaign to affirm the human rights of tomato workers and improve the conditions under which they labour. The work of the Fair Food Standards Council has produced a replicable, scalable model for expansion of the Fair Food Program beyond the Florida tomato industry. The Fair Food Program consists of several major elements, including: a wage increase supported by the “penny per pound” price premium participating buyers pay for their tomatoes; compliance with the human rights-based Code of Conduct, including zero tolerance for forced labour and sexual assault; worker-to-worker education sessions conducted by the CIW on the farms and on company time to insure workers understand their new rights and responsibilities; a worker-triggered complaint resolution mechanism leading to complaint investigation, corrective action plans, and, if necessary, suspension of a farm’s participating grower status. |
Availability | ENG: http://www.fairfoodstandards.org/resources/fair-food-code-of-conduct/ |