Africa: Ten of the World's Biggest Food and Beverage Companies Battle to Improve Their Social Sustainability Through the Behind the Brands Campaign

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Nine of the "Big 10" global food and beverage companies have improved their ratings by at least 10 percent in three years since Oxfam began keeping score through its "Behind the Brands" scorecard. Oxfam highlighted the major strides most of them have made to improve their policies on land rights, agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and gender equality in company supply chains. Kellogg (up 30 percent) and Unilever (up 26 percent) made the most progress across all themes since the campaign began.

More than 700,000 Behind the Brands actions have pushed the "Big 10" to take significant steps to address specific policy weaknesses identified by Oxfam's public campaigning - equality for women, land rights and tackling greenhouse gas emissions produced in agricultural supply chains. The companies improved most markedly on those issues, by an average of 24 percent, 37 percent and 32 percent respectively.

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