SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Community Engagement
In community development, food security is a priority as an empowerment and skill development mechanism. In 2017, Saber Nutrir®, our community development program, not only renewed its image but refocused the efforts and resources of the nutrition education program to the generation of productive projects in rural communities facing food security issues in Estado de México and Chiapas.
During the year, in collaboration with the Pro Mazahua Foundation and Child Fund Mexico, we installed 90 projects, bringing the number of projects since 2014 to 981.
These projects enhanced the quality of life and nutritional status of our beneficiaries by improving the bioavailability of nutrients and socio-environmental conditions.
Ethics and Transparency
In ethics and transparency, we reinforce the culture of legality year after year, in our workers, our suppliers and other stakeholder groups.
We use grievance channels and codes of conduct to promote an ethical work environment and operations, free from bribery, corruption and any breach of human rights.
In order to achieve this goal, this year we joined forces with México Unido Contra la Delincuencia (Mexico United Against Crime), a non-profit association working on causes and actions in favor of security, justice and legality.
Environment
Our environment goal is to ensure we fulfill our commitment to produce the highest quality food products without affecting the environment through the efficient and sustainable use of natural resources.
Thus, besides continuing the cogeneration project in San Luis Potosí, we began the first stage of two highly challenging and important projects concerning climate change: life cycle analysis and climate change risks.
These projects will enable us to detect environmental risks from climate change in our operations and design strategies and initiatives that allow us to anticipate environmental events that may have a negative or positive impact on our operations.
Quality of Life
To meet our quality of life goal, we furthered employee development through various initiatives, including ongoing assessment and feedback, performance bonuses, respect for collective organization, benefits that surpass industry standards, continuous training, and our most recent initiative, work inclusion of people with disabilities, in collaboration with the Éntrale alliance.
We encourage healthy eating habits and lifestyle and provide safe working areas in order to mitigate the risks of work injuries and improve the quality of life of our employees.
In 2017, we reduced our injury rate by 4 percent and extended our healthy eating program to Los Mochis, Sinaloa.
