FAB-C.05.C - Employee Healthy Food Programme Progress
Does the company report its progress on providing healthy foods to its employees?
About the data
The WBA Food and Agriculture Benchmark measures and ranks the world's most influential food and agriculture companies on their efforts to transform global food systems, tracking how companies work towards food that is healthy and nutritious, produced sustainably within planetary boundaries, and accessible and fairly produced for all. The 2026 edition assessed 350 companies spanning the entirety of the food and agriculture value chain, from agricultural inputs and commodities through to manufacturing, retail, and food service. Companies were scored on 23 food and agriculture-specific indicators and 18 core social indicators across four measurement areas: governance, sustainable food systems, healthy food systems, and inclusive food systems. The benchmark is developed in close collaboration with an Expert Review Committee and is designed to incentivise the most influential companies in the sector to adopt sustainable business practices across their own operations and supply chains, addressing critical issues including greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, freshwater use, nutrition, and living incomes for farmers, with human rights and social equity at its core. More information can be found here.
Methodology
Approximately 58% of the world’s population spends a third of their time at work during
their adult life (CGF, n.d.). Companies can promote nutrition at work through a set of interventions,
including access to and supply of healthy foods and breastfeeding support (Workforce Nutrition
Alliance, 2022). Moreover, they can make their workforce nutrition programmes even more impactful
by targeting their supply chain workers in low- and middle-income countries, where rates of
malnutrition are higher (ATNI, 2021).
Research Guidance:
The company reports quantitative metrics on healthy food offerings AND the data reported must be comparable and demonstrate improvements for at least two reporting periods. The last reporting should not be older than two years.
Examples covering only some locations/countries are accepted, provided the example cover ALL employees in the company‚s location.
DEFINITIONS
GAIN Workforce nutrition scorecard
Breastfeeding support programmes
Workplace breastfeeding support includes programmes or company policies which enable working mothers to breastfeed. Such programmes can include: respecting or exceeding national laws on duration of paid maternity leave; providing an appropriate place and time to express/pump milk during work hours and providing options for working mothers such as on-site child care and flexible work schedules. Some programmes include awareness-raising or nutrition education campaigns for mothers and coworkers on the importance of breastfeeding.
Healthy foods at work
These are programmes which focus on increasing employees‚ access to healthy and safe foods at work. Employers may provide healthy food for free, with a subsidy, or at full cost to the employee. These programmes change the food environment through healthier canteen meals (some include promotion alongside options), snack offerings, vending machine options, more balanced portion sizes. All of these shape people‚s access to nutritious foods and encourage healthier choices.
their adult life (CGF, n.d.). Companies can promote nutrition at work through a set of interventions,
including access to and supply of healthy foods and breastfeeding support (Workforce Nutrition
Alliance, 2022). Moreover, they can make their workforce nutrition programmes even more impactful
by targeting their supply chain workers in low- and middle-income countries, where rates of
malnutrition are higher (ATNI, 2021).
Research Guidance:
The company reports quantitative metrics on healthy food offerings AND the data reported must be comparable and demonstrate improvements for at least two reporting periods. The last reporting should not be older than two years.
Examples covering only some locations/countries are accepted, provided the example cover ALL employees in the company‚s location.
DEFINITIONS
GAIN Workforce nutrition scorecard
Breastfeeding support programmes
Workplace breastfeeding support includes programmes or company policies which enable working mothers to breastfeed. Such programmes can include: respecting or exceeding national laws on duration of paid maternity leave; providing an appropriate place and time to express/pump milk during work hours and providing options for working mothers such as on-site child care and flexible work schedules. Some programmes include awareness-raising or nutrition education campaigns for mothers and coworkers on the importance of breastfeeding.
Healthy foods at work
These are programmes which focus on increasing employees‚ access to healthy and safe foods at work. Employers may provide healthy food for free, with a subsidy, or at full cost to the employee. These programmes change the food environment through healthier canteen meals (some include promotion alongside options), snack offerings, vending machine options, more balanced portion sizes. All of these shape people‚s access to nutritious foods and encourage healthier choices.
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Aggregate Data Report