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Report07 Feb 2024
The Economics of the Food System Transformation
Healthy diets are vital to the transformation of global Food Systems as outlined in a recent policy report by the Food System Economics Commission (FSEC)
Insight05 Feb 2024
Public-Private Collaboration on Salt Reduction in Japan
The mission of the CGF Collaboration for Healthier Lives team in Japan is to solve health issues by improving nutrition, preventing lifestyle-related diseases, promoting employee health, through collaboration with government and academia, to "live better longer".
Toolkit24 Jan 2023
CGF Employee Wellbeing Framework
Insight04 Nov 2022
WWF Basket: Halving the Environmental Impact of UK Baskets by 2030
The WWF Basket has put together a bluprint for measuring outcomes and action when addressing the environmental footprints of our baskets
Report12 Oct 2022
WHO Guidelines on Mental Health at Work
The WHO guidelines on mental health at work provide evidence-based recommendations to promote mental health, prevent mental...
Report21 Jun 2022
World Mental Health Report: Transforming Mental Health For All
The World mental health report: transforming mental health for all is designed to inspire and inform better...
Insight14 Jun 2022
The Time is Ripe for ESG + Nutrition: Evidence-Based Nutrition Metrics for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Investing
Published in January 2022 in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, this article highlights the need to add nutrition and health metrics to an ESG investing framework.
Report19 Apr 2022
Mental Health and Employers: The Case for Investment – Pandemic and Beyond
As a result of the adverse impact of the pandemic on mental health, Deloitte has...
Report10 Feb 2022
Workforce Nutrition Alliance – 2021 Review: Setting the Foundation
Newly-published infographic from the Workforce Nutrition Alliance reviews its 2021 performance, including scorecard data.
Report12 Apr 2021
Mandatory Business Reporting to Accelerate the Food Industry’s Transition to Healthy and Sustainable Food
A lack of basic, transparent data within the food industry is currently hindering progress towards...
Report24 Feb 2021
Methodology for the Food and Agriculture Benchmark
In 2021, the global spotlight is on our food systems. All human life depends on...
Toolkit09 Dec 2020
Tokyo NG4 2021 Commitment-Making Guide
2020 marked the beginning of a decade-long race towards the deadline of the world’s 2030...
Report29 Jun 2020
Collaboration for Healthier Lives China: an Analysis of Data on Nutrition and Food Consumption
The Collaboration for Healthier Lives (CHL) China team published an introductory report on their initiative...
Case Study25 Jun 2020
Hard Seltzer Defies Categorization And Limits As The Most Resilient Alcohol Segment In U.S.
Hard seltzer is one juxtaposition after another—and that’s what’s driving its overall success. For starters,...
Survey25 Jun 2020
The New Shape of Work Well-Being Diagnostic Assessment
A diagnostic tool intended to help assess where your business is at in terms of...
Report29 May 2020
Global Retail Trends 2020: Preparing for the New Reality
This report highlight four key trends that retail executives should be watching as they rebuild...
Report26 May 2020
Anticipating Consumer Needs Today and Tomorrow
Consumer behaviors are changing rapidly, so your decisions need to be faster, too. Learn how...
Insight20 May 2020
House Bound and House Proud Aussies Seek Inspiration During Covid-19 Lockdowns
As self-isolation and lockdowns have been playing out to flatten the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) curve,...
Insight18 May 2020
Still Concerned About Covid-19, U.S. Consumers Will Want More from Convenience Stores
Across the U.S. retail landscape, the convenience channel has been the offline channel to watch...
Summary13 May 2020
Covid-19 Can Inhibit Innovation or Foster It: It’s Up To You
If you think innovating can be hard normally, try doing it during a global pandemic....
Case Study04 May 2020
Scenarios Beyond COVID-19: Rebound, Reboot, Reinvent
Governments around the world are edging toward plans to exit mass population lockdowns, albeit at...
Report24 Mar 2020
Covid-19 Response
An Oliver Wyman report giving insights on the Covid-19 outbreak. It gives an overview of...
Report24 Mar 2020
China’s Recovery From Covid-19
A BCG report on China’s recovery from the Covid-19 crisis giving an overview of the...
Report23 Mar 2020
Covid-19 Consumer Sentiment Snapshot #2
This Consumer Sentiment Snapshot highlights information drawn from a BCG consumer survey executed at one-...
Report20 Mar 2020
Covid-19 Response: Big Decisions For Our CEOs Right Now – And Urgent Questions About the Time After
A report on a recommended set of immediate actions and critical questions that CEOs should...
Report20 Mar 2020
COVID-19 Food & Beverage Impact: Monitoring Update, 20 Mar 2020
As the coronavirus cases spreads globally, the industry is beginning to feel the early impacts...
Report18 Mar 2020
Responding to Covid-19 During the Acute Outbreak in Italy
The explosion of the health emergency in Italy, as well as abroad, encourages us to...
Report16 Mar 2020
The Economics of a Pandemic: The Case of Covid-19
An overview of a lecture by Professors or Economics at London Business School, Paolo Surico...
Report30 Mar 2019
Health & Wellness Progress Report 2019
The 5th CGF Health & Wellness progress report based on 2018 findings showing member efforts...
Report30 Jan 2018
Health & Wellness Progress Report 2018
The 4th CGF Health & Wellness progress report based on 2017 findings showing member efforts...
STANDARD: The BRCGS Global Standard for Ethical Trade & Responsible Sourcing Issue 2 achieved SSCI Recognition under Scope AI — Social Compliance: Manufacturing & Processing in November 2021.
BRCGS is an established global standards leader, with a rigorous GFSI recognised assurance program that touches every aspect of the 21st century supply chain – from food ingredients to packaging, distribution, retail and beyond. It sets the benchmark for best practice manufacturing, helping to provide reassurance that products and services are high quality, legal and safe. BRCGS is recognised across food and non-food categories as the global standard underpinning brand reputation through compliance, at over 30,000 certificated sites in 130 countries. Visit brcgs.com to find out more.
STANDARD: The Florverde standard for the sustainable production of flowers and ornamentals version 7.2.1 achieved SSCI Recognition under Scope BI – Social Compliance: Primary Production in April 2024.
Florverde Sustainable Flowers (FSF) is an independent social and environmental standard which ensures that flowers certified under this scheme have been responsibly produced. This requires flower growers to adopt measures that will protect and enable worker’s rights, implement best environmental practices, and comply with national regulations. FSF also helps safeguard quality by requiring the proper care and handling of flowers.
STANDARD: FSSC 24000 Social Management System Certification Version 6.0 achieved SSCI Recognition under Scope AI — Social Compliance: Processing and Manufacturing in January 2024.
The aim of FSSC 24000 is to ensure that social sustainability management system requirements are met, resulting in certifications that assure organisations provide safe and fair working conditions, meet business ethics requirements, and apply due diligence in their supply chain management. FSSC 24000 provides a strategic approach incorporating the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle and risk-based thinking, which ensures the identification and control of social risk and continuous improvement. This process demonstrates corporate responsibility and facilitates improving the social management systems and performance thus driving impact.
FSSC 24000’s scope of certification includes the manufacturing and processing sector (food and non-food), including its related service provision. The certificate confirms that the organisation’s social sustainability management system is in conformance with the FSSC 24000 Scheme requirements based on the following normative documents:
BSI/PAS 24000:2022 – Social management system requirements (Publicly Available Specification)
FSSC 24000 Additional Requirements (as determined by the FSSC Board of Stakeholders)
The FSSC 24000 certification scheme is owned and governed by the non-profit Foundation FSSC and outlines the requirements for the audit and certification of a Social Sustainability Management System of an organization. More information on the FSSC 24000 Scheme is available on their website.
Responsible Fishing Vessel Standard
STANDARD: The Responsible Fishing Vessel Standard 2.1 achieved SSCI Recognition under Scope CI — Social Compliance: At-Sea Operations in November 2022.
In 2018, Global Seafood Assurances and the UK Sea Fish Industry Authority (Seafish) announced a memorandum of understanding to work together to create the next version of the Responsible Fishing Scheme (RFS), committing to expand its global applicability, which resulted in the creation of the Responsible Fishing Vessel Standard. Now part of the Global Seafood Alliance, GSA took ownership of the standards last year. The first RFVS-certified vessel was announced in Australia in January, and the second set of RFVS-certified vessels was announced in the United Kingdom in April. The standard addresses social responsibility, including working conditions and worker voice, about fishing vessels.
STANDARD: The SIZA Social Standard Version 6 achieved SSCI Recognition under Scopes AI — Social Compliance: Manufacturing & Processing, and BI — Social Compliance: Primary Production in June 2023.
SIZA, the Sustainability Initiative of South Africa, is enabling the South African agricultural sector to become a global leader in sustainable farming, ethical trade, and environmental stewardship. The aim is to encourage continuous improvement in practices over time. SIZA aims to have a cost-effective approach for growers by supplying one standard and one audit, no matter which market a producer supplies. SIZA engages directly with stakeholders throughout the value chain to improve supply chain sustainability, ensuring compliance and reducing risks while at the same time offering support and training with regard to best practices and continuous improvement. Verification occurs via third-party audits. For more information on SIZA, please visit our website: www.siza.co.za
Wine and Agricultural Ethical Trade Association (WIETA)
STANDARD: WIETA Standard Version 4.0 achieved SSCI recognition under Scope AI — Social Compliance: Manufacturing & Processing, and BI — Social Compliance: Primary Production in January 2025.
The Wine and Agricultural Ethical Trade Association T/A WIETA was the first South African social standard, established in 2002, to establish an appropriate social auditing methodology for fruit and wine suppliers in South Africa. WIETA proudly demonstrates how a multi-stakeholder model can successfully promote a world class ethical trade and human rights programme within the wine value chain. Innovative social dialogue engagements, a rigorous capacity building and training programme for both workers and producers, coupled with a participative multi-pronged approach to auditing and remedial approach to ensure sustained corrective actions.
Founded in 2003, the amfori BSCI enables companies to drive sustainability by setting up the human rights due diligence principles that business enterprises strive to implement in their global supply chain.
Representing over 2,400 participants in 46 countries, the amfori BSCI operates in a variety of sectors, the two largest being General Merchandise, and Garment & Textile with a combined annual turnover is evaluated to EUR 1.6 trillion.
The amfori BSCI Code of Conduct set out the values and principles for the implementation of supply chain due diligence, based on the OECD’s six-step framework. The amfori BSCI System Manual outlines the supporting tools and methodology for participants to exercise human rights due diligence and environmental protection set out in the amfori BSCI Code of Conduct.
Ethiopian Horticulture Producer Exporters Association (EHPEA)
STANDARD:The Ethiopian Horticulture Producer Exporters Association (EHPEA) is currently being benchmarked under Scope BI – Social Compliance: Primary Production.
Ethiopian Horticulture Producer Exporters Association (EHPEA) is a business membership organisation which was established in 2002. It is an organisation meant to promote the interest of its members who are engaged in the production and export of cut flowers, fruit, vegetables, herbs, cuttings as well as vegetable seeds.
Fairness, Integrity, Safety, and Health (FISH) Standard for Crew
STANDARD: FISH Standard for Crew Version 1.0 is currently being benchmarked under Scope CI — Social Compliance: At-Sea Operations.
The Fairness, Integrity, Safety, and Health (FISH) Standard for Crew is a voluntary, third party labour certification program for wild harvest fishing vessels. FISH is designed to provide harvesters a tool to demonstrate to customers and other stakeholders that the seafood harvested comes from responsible sources with respect to crew treatment, compensation, and conditions. It was developed with input from the full seafood supply chain, including large and small harvesters, processors, retailers and restaurant groups, in consultation with labour non-profit organisations, to create a program that is open to vessels and fleets of all sizes around the globe. Read more about the Standard here.
STANDARD: The KFC Flowers and Ornamentals Sustainability Standard Version December 2021 is currently being benchmarked under Scopes AI — Social Compliance: Manufacturing & Processing, and BI — Social Compliance: Primary Production.
Kenya Flower Council (KFC) is the country’s leading Business Membership Association for growers and exporters of cut-flower and ornamentals. KFC members account for approximately 80 percent of Kenya’s floricultural exports.
KFC also owns the Flowers and Ornamentals Sustainability Standards (FOSS), a trusted standard worldwide. It is one of only three internationally benchmarked standards that demonstrate sustainable social, environmental and good agricultural business practice benchmarks set by the EU-based Floriculture Sustainability Initiative (FSI). The standard encourages commitment to ethical practices, innovation and promoting equitable trading practices, thus ensuring that certified producers foster sustainable, responsible and safe production of cut flowers and ornamentals.
The Council is in the forefront promoting Kenya as a reliable source of quality cut flowers and ornamentals and the country’s competitiveness in the global floriculture trade. KFC is actively engaged in all major trade negotiations in existing, new and emerging markets and in amplifying Kenya’s image in the international market as the most trusted source of cut flowers and ornamentals.
Currently, Kenya is the third largest producer of cut-flowers and ornamentals in the world and exports to over 60 destinations globally. Floriculture is the fastest growing export sector in the Kenyan economy, providing direct employment for over 200,000 workers.
KFC engages with key actors locally for a favourable business environment for growers and exporters of cut flowers and ornamentals.
STANDARD: The MPS-SQ Standard is currently being benchmarked under Scope BI — Social Compliance: Primary Production.
MPS, owned by Stichting MPS, is a leading organisation dedicated to supporting sustainability in the agricultural sector through its trusted certification schemes. The MPS-SQ Standard, introduced in 2002, is designed to ensure that agricultural products are produced under good working conditions. The standard applies to growers and their entire company, addressing key areas such as employee working conditions, health, and safety. It is built on universal human rights, the codes of conduct of local representative organisations, and international agreements of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
The MPS-SQ Standard also ensures fair treatment for family members working in family-run agricultural operations and sets minimum requirements for working conditions, encouraging compliance with stricter national, local, or international laws to provide the highest level of worker protection. By promoting ethical labour practices, My MPS aims to improve worker safety, health, and well-being while enhancing the image of the agricultural sector. MPS is applying for SSCI’s Scope BI — Social Compliance: Primary Production, reaffirming its commitment to advancing sustainable and responsible practices across the agricultural supply chain.
The Rainforest Alliance Sustainable Agriculture Standard, is designed to deliver more value to the more than four million farmers and workers and thousands of businesses that use Rainforest Alliance certification to drive more sustainable agricultural production and responsible supply chains. The Sustainable Agriculture Standard is used in more than 70 countries around the globe. Their program focuses on coffee, cocoa, tea, bananas, and many other important commodity sectors facing urgent environmental and social challenges.