Question: Does the company require its business relationships to have a process to identify legitimate tenure rights holders when acquiring, leasing or making other arrangements to use land, paying particular attention to vulnerable or marginalized tenure rights holders, and negotiating with them to provide adequate compensation?
Answer:
No
18247853
World Benchmarking Alliance
JM Smucker
2023
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The company expects its suppliers to comply with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, and codes of the countries in which they do business, including laws relating to land rights. However, no evidence found that the company requires its business relationships to have a process to identify legitimate tenure rightsholders when acquiring, leasing or making other arrangements to use land, paying particular attention to vulnerable or marginalised tenure rightsholders, and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.