The newly updated Behind the Brands scorecard
shows that the ‘Big 10’ food and beverage companies have made significant new
commitments over the past three years to improve social and environmental
standards in their vast supply chains. Pushed by over 700,000 actions by
concerned consumers, progress has been most evident in the areas of protecting
land rights, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and tackling gender inequality.
But there is much work still to do.
These companies must now ensure that their
suppliers actually change their practices in line with the commitments made.
But to accelerate the transformation towards a more sustainable food system,
the companies must go much further and fundamentally re-write the business
models in their supply chains to ensure that much more power and much more of
the value their products generate reaches the farmers and workers who produce
their ingredients.
Behind the Brands scorecard April 2016:
- Land
- Women
- Farmers
- Workers
- Climate
- Transparency
- Water
