As a producer of healthy and nutritious produce, Fyffes welcomes the EU Code of Conduct on Responsible Food Business and Marketing Practices and would like to be included in the company signatories.

Commitments by aspirational objectives:

Aspirational objective 1: Healthy, balanced, and sustainable diets for all European consumers, thereby contributing to: 

1) Reversing malnutrition and diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the EU;

2) Reducing the environmental footprint of food consumption by 2030.

With the following aspirational targets:

a) Improved food consumption patterns in the EU; 

b) A food environment that makes it easier to choose healthy and sustainable diets.

Fyffes commitments:

• Provide two million healthy meals to people in vulnerable groups by 2025 by working with qualified partners; 

• Educate three million people on healthy eating habits and food waste minimisation by 2025.

Aspirational objective 2: Prevention and reduction of food loss and waste (at the consumer level, within internal operations, and across value chains)

With the following aspirational target: 

A 50% reduction of per capita food waste at the retail and consumer level by 2030 and reduced food losses along the food production and supply chains in the EU.

Fyffes commitments:

• Reduce food loss by 80% in all our operations by 2030;

• Develop one new application for each of our core products by 2030.

Aspirational objective 3: A climate-neutral food chain in Europe by 2050

With the following aspirational target: 

Reducing net emissions from own operations, contributing to a 55% GHG emission reduction target in the EU food chain by 2030 (following a science-based approach).

Fyffes commitments:

Reduce carbon emissions to achieve the Science Based Target (Scope 1, 2 and portion of 3) of 1.5 ̊ C scenario by 2025, representing a 25% reduction in CO₂ eq./kg of fruit.

Aspirational objective 4: An optimised circular and resource-efficient food chain in Europe

With the following aspirational targets:

a) Improved resource efficiency within own operations, contributing to sustainable, efficient use and management of energy and natural resources in operations by 2030;

b) Improved sustainability of food and drink packaging, striving for all packaging towards circularity by 2030.

Fyffes commitments:

All packaging will be compostable, recyclable, or reusable by 2025.

Aspirational objective 5: Sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, employment, and decent work for all

With the following aspirational targets:

a) Improved resilience and competitiveness of companies operating at any point along the food value chain by 2030;

b) Quality jobs, skilled workforce, and safe and inclusive workplaces for all.

Fyffes commitments:

• By 2025 no work-related fatalities and no severe work-related injuries;

• 100% of Fyffes workers and supply chain workers are trained on human rights by 2030 (100% of managers and employees by 2025);

• 100% Fyffes-owned sites in the LATAM region benefitting from Gender Equality Programs by 2025 and 50% of suppliers by 2030;

• Eradicate the gender pay gap in Fyffes operations by 2030;

• By 2030 improve the resilience of 2,000 of our smallholders to climate change across key LATAM production countries with specific capacity-building programs.

Aspirational objective 6: Sustainable value creation in the European food supply chain through partnership

With the following aspirational targets:

a) Improved resilience and competitiveness of companies operating at any point along the food value chain by 2030;

b) Continued progress towards sustainable production, contributing to sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources by 2030 and improved animal welfare.

Fyffes commitments:

• 100% of Fyffes-owned operations have water management plans in place for 2025.

• By 2030 Improve the resilience of 2,000 of our smallholders to climate change across key LATAM production countries with specific capacity-building programs.

• 100% of Fyffes neighbouring communities are engaged in resilient socio-economic community projects out of the four community investment areas by 2030.

Aspirational objective 7: Sustainable sourcing in food supply chains

With the following aspirational targets:

a) Transformed commodity supply chains that do not contribute to deforestation, forest degradation, and destruction of natural habitat and which preserve and protect high-value ecosystems and biodiversity;

b) Improved social performance in (global) food supply chains.

Fyffes commitments:

• 50% of our suppliers will benefit from Gender Equality Programs by 2030 and 100% of supply chain workers will be trained on human rights by 2030.

• The reduction of agrochemical use and measure replacement of agrochemical with sustainable alternatives by 2024.

• Measure soil quality and identify soil management best practices that apply to our farming operations.

• 40% of the land at our pineapple farm and a significant proportion of our banana farms in Costa Rica are reserved for primary and secondary forestry. 100% of Fyffe's farms in Costa Rica are Rainforest Alliance certified and this certification requires stringent biodiversity standards.

• We have identified 11 salient human rights risks across our operations and nine follow-up actions are being implemented by the Huma Rights Core Team. 

Full detail of the pledge in the provided attachment.