SUSTAINABILITY - Bunge

Performance and career analysis*Total percentage of associates that receiveda performance and career development reportLA-12 GRIBunge Alimentos .37Bunge Fertilizantes* 9.07Fertimport 100.00* At Bunge Fertilizantes, performance reports were only done for the management level employees.After December 2007, coordination level employees also started to be evaluated.Human rightsHR-2 GRIHR-5GRIHR-6 GRIHR-7 GRIHR-8 GRIThe Ethics Code andthe SustainabilityPolicy guideBunge’s practicesand proceduresconcerning humanrights. Thesedocuments expresslyban discriminationand promoterespect for all human beings.Internally, Bunge Fertilizantesand Fertimport have socialworkers available, who identifypotential conflicts betweenemployees and management,in addition to cases of impropertreatment and discrimination.Bunge demands from allour suppliers that they complywith all labor laws, as farmingoperations often present conditionsfor risk and abuse, such as childlabor, forced labor and limitationsto the right of freedom ofassociation. Bunge is a signatoryof the National Treaty for theEradication of Slave Labor (see“Responsible Farming” section) andall of the members of our security,which is performed by outsourcedcompanies, must completetraining that addresses securitypolicies and corporate values andfocuses on human rights issues.Fertimport, since it is located in acondominium managed by thirdparties, and due to the nature of itsactivity, does not deal directly withthe outside public so no securitytraining is in place.SocietySO-1 GRIBunge Alimentosand BungeFertilizantes have a series ofprograms to evaluate the impactof their operations in thecommunities where they arepresent and to manage theinstallation process of new units,the potential closing of any of themand also the day-to-day operationsof the ones already implemented.Because it operates in an area withminimal community interaction,Fertimport does not developactivities for that purpose.In new unit installation projects,Bunge Alimentos and BungeFertilizantes approach the localauthorities and representatives ofcommunity associations in orderto assess local needs. Based onthis, the companies enter intopartnerships with the publicauthorities and civil society entitiesto allocate resources to roads,hospitals and other public services,and to carry out activities toempower local labor.The several locations in Brazilthat develop operations for the Groupare assisted by Fundação Bunge,through education, health and welfareprograms directed to employeesand their families and throughdirect contact initiatives with othermembers of the community throughprojects such as the ones fromBunge Fertilizantes’ EnvironmentalEducation Center and BungeAlimentos’ Environmental and LeisureCenter. In 2007, the centers endorsedseveral activities such as creation ofthe Junior Volunteer Firefighters andCommunity Civil Defense Force.Where units have to be closed,impacting the local area, Bungecompanies establish, together withthe public powers, an internal andexternal communications planSustainability Report | Bunge | 53