Nestlé in society Creating Shared Value and meeting our commitments 2015

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Nestlé in society: Creating Shared Value Nutrition, health and wellness Rural development Water Environmental sustainability Human rights and compliance Our people G4-EC7, Procurement practices G4-DMA, Supplier environmental assessment G4-DMA, G4-EN33, Supplier assessment for labor practices G4-DMA, G4-LA15, G4-HR5, G4-HR10, G4-SO9, G4-SO10 Our commitment to eradicating child labour from our supply chain requires garden owners in countries with production facilities to work towards full compliance against best ethical and sustainability practices as a means of eliminating child labour from the hazelnut industry. As with other categories of ingredients and materials, suppliers unable to meet our requirements but demonstrating measurable progress towards them receive help from Nestlé and our delivery partners to make the necessary changes. Read our latest Progress Report on Responsible Sourcing of Hazelnuts. Vanilla Madagascar is one of the world’s leading producers of vanilla, including the 700 tonnes of natural vanilla flavour Nestlé purchased in 2015 for our ice cream and confectionery products. The vanilla spice comes mainly from the Sambava, Antalaha, Vohemar and Andap (SAVA) regions, where it is produced by small growers in rural, sometimes remote, villages, where social and educational infrastructures are underdeveloped. Because there are no bees on Madagascar, each orchid flower has to be pollinated by hand. In addition, each flower lasts for only one day so has to be pollinated immediately, meaning crops must be checked daily. Combined with harvest and curing, this makes vanilla a labour-intensive and timeconsuming crop to grow in Madagascar, making it best suited to small-scale farms. Low income can also be a major factor in the vanilla supply chain. Most of Nestlé’s vanilla supplies come from Madagascar, where about 80 000 farmers rely almost exclusively on vanilla for their income. Sometimes, farmers harvest their vanilla too early because they need cash to buy food, or because of a lack of access to resources and expertise. Tackling child labour in the vanilla supply chain While child labour remains an issue in a number of our priority categories’ supply chains, we have a particular objective to work towards eliminating it from our vanilla supply chain. In 2015, we continued to work towards this in various ways, including working with our supplier Givaudan, which has extended and improved access to educational facilities for farmers’ children. Givaudan is now working to develop child labour remediation activities, and we are beginning work with a second supplier to help take more children out of farm labour. Traceability in the supply chain Given their importance to global supplies, vanilla farmers in Madagascar need to have both sustainable resources and the necessary education and skills to produce high-quality, high-value crops. Although we don’t have category-specific requirements for natural vanilla flavour, our RSG requirements cover compliance with local and national regulations and laws, labour practices, environmental impacts and the creation of shared value. After carrying out an in-depth field investigation to evaluate the responsible sourcing risks and opportunities in our Malagasy vanilla supply chain, we created our Responsible Sourcing strategy for the category. It seeks to establish traceability through the complex supply chain of exporters, processors and collectors back to the gardens or plantations, and seeks to ensure Responsibly Sourced vanilla volume through the implementation of best practices. Vanilla supply chain traceability results 700 tonnes 95% 40% * Volume sourced for Ice Cream and Confectionery business. Total volume in scope: 700 tonnes* Percentage of volume traceable (back to plantation): 95%* (2015 target: 90%) Percentage of volume Responsibly Sourced (RSG improvement projects, i.e. fund suppliers’ initiatives): 40% (2015 target: 40%) To date, our Tier 1 supplier Givaudan has benefited 3337 schoolchildren and supported almost 2200 families through its sustainable development programme for 2013–2015. Givaudan and one of its suppliers, Henri Fraise Fils, have achieved this by: • Improving vanilla bean quality through the provision of technical assistance to farmers; • Promoting the System of Rice Intensification to increase the yield of locally grown, pesticide-free rice, strengthening food security; • Supporting the development of alternative sources of revenue, such as beekeeping, fisheries, keeping small livestock and handicrafts; • Improving access to water by building wells and irrigation dams; and • Supporting the building, extension and repair of schools, health centres and access roads. In 2015, Givaudan commenced remediation activities with the co-operatives established through the Community Vanilla Initiative and previously audited. This work will further develop the traceability, quality and availability of vanilla and build a sustainable partnership with the farmers. In addition, Nestlé directed resources and funding to sponsor the building of two additional schools close to our sourcing locations, and support the development of infrastructure for a health centre. We will also make a video film of our vanilla sourcing activities to better educate both employees and consumers. Read our latest Progress Report on Responsible Sourcing of Vanilla. Nestlé in society – Creating Shared Value and meeting our commitments 2015 134
Nestlé in society: Creating Shared Value Nutrition, health and wellness Rural development Water Environmental sustainability Human rights and compliance Our people G4-EC7, Procurement practices G4-DMA, FP2, Supplier environmental assessment G4-DMA, G4-EN33, Supplier assessment for labor practices G4-DMA, G4-LA15, G4-HR10, Animal welfare G4-DMA, G4-SO9, G4-SO10 Meat, poultry and eggs Nestlé buys a range of meat, poultry and egg products from a wide variety of farmers around the world through its trade channels. We buy processed meat in the form of cooked and dehydrated products, oils and powders, as well as cooked, frozen and fresh meat for use as ingredients in a range of our foods and beverages. Most of our meat and poultry are used for ready-made and frozen meals and for pet food, while eggs are mostly used for mayonnaise, pasta and pastry. We have made major progress in 2015 towards using only eggs from cage-free hens. In December 2015, Nestlé USA announced that it will switch to using exclusively cage-free eggs in all of its US food products by 2020. We are also developing pilot projects with our suppliers and World Animal Protection to establish a roadmap for sourcing cage-free eggs in Europe and the rest of the world. Traceability in the supply chain We began implementing our Responsible Sourcing requirements for meat, poultry, eggs and dairy in late 2013. Initial progress has been slow because much of the meat and poultry we buy is meat by-product used for pet food, and harder to trace. Our current assessment focus is on our food business. In 2015, we purchased a total of 1.7 million tonnes of meat, poultry and eggs. Of this, 8.7% was traceable (target: 10%) and 3.34% was Responsibly Sourced (target: 5%). We are working towards further improving farm animal health and welfare in our supply chain. We assess practices at farm level using the Nestlé Responsible Sourcing Assessment protocol, developed in conjunction with World Animal Protection. Our collaboration with World Animal Protection made us the first major food company to form a partnership with an animal welfare NGO. World Animal Protection subsequently helped us develop our category-specific requirements, which cover breeding, feeding, housing, husbandry, health, transport and slaughtering. Having started by assessing our dairy supply chains in Europe and North America, we began implementing our Responsible Sourcing requirements for meat, poultry and eggs in our supply chain in 2014. Findings included issues regarding the storage of chemicals, access to water, disbudding without local anaesthetic and analgesia, and labour policies. We will gradually implement them along our global supply chains, focusing on animal welfare at a farm level. Together with World Animal Protection and our supply chain partners, we will continue to work to further improve farm animal welfare in our supply chain by ensuring compliance with our RSG requirements to ensure the highest possible levels of farm animal welfare along our supply chain. Fish and seafood Our fish and seafood comes from a wide variety of sources. Like meat and poultry, the seafood we procure is used in ready-made and frozen meals, nutrition products and pet food. Verification and certification Through our delivery partner agreements, we will increasingly be able to assess our supply chain against our categoryspecific requirements for fish and seafood, evaluate the sustainability of seafood sources (wild and farmed) and identify projects to enhance the environmental performance of our suppliers. Our RSG establishes a framework for continuous improvement in our wild caught and farmed seafood supply chain, and its derived co-products, building towards Responsible Sourcing. We also recognise seafood certified by independent NGOs such as the Marine Stewardship Council, the world’s leading certification and eco-labelling programme for sustainable seafood. Traceability in the supply chain By the end of 2015: Fish and seafood supply chain traceability results (for whole fish; by-product is traced only by the number of fisheries) 130 000 60% 55% Total volume in scope: 130 000 Percentage of volume traceable: 60% (2015 target: 60%) Percentage of volume Responsibly Sourced: 55% (2015 target: 30%) Read our latest Progress Report on Responsible Sourcing of Meat, Poultry and Eggs. Nestlé in society – Creating Shared Value and meeting our commitments 2015 135
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