Compliance with its own country Environmental Legislation
Preservation of Natural Protected Areas and Natural Resources
Sound management of Solid and Liquid Effluents
Fire avoidance and protection schemes
No use of GMOs
MINIMUM SOCIAL CRITERIA:
Compliance with its own country Labor Legislation and International Labor Organization (ILO)
Guarantee of Minimum Wages
Support to Trade Unions and Freedom of Association
Guarantee of good Health and Safety working conditions
No Child Labor
No Forced Labor
Equal Treatment (no discrimination of any kind: religious, gender, age, race…)
Social Benefits to workers
Support to Working Women
In addition, EcoSocial certified operators must go beyond minimum criteria and promote development...
Development Program
Human and Social
- Qualification of Rural Workers: the mechanized harvesting of sugar cane has caused great environmental gain, while burnt areas have been drastically reduced. As a counterpoint to environmental gain, there is the social challenge of using rural labour, which is becoming idle due to the decrease of manual harvesting. The project of Qualification of Rural Workers has been acting to enable these workers to take on new tasks within the company. - Weaving: handicraft and embroidery workshop. The main objective of the Weaving Project is to enable children and young people to become citizens, ensuring, with absolute priority, to make their fundamental rights effective by means of socio-educational and vocational activities. This initiative occurs during a complementary period to school, meant for children of low income families.
Environmental
- Organic Certification of Suppliers: Native believes in Organic Production as an option to the production of healthy food linked to the concepts of social and environmental sustainability. Therefore, it created a program of incentive to its suppliers to convert conventional areas into organic areas. - 3rd Campaign of Faunistic Monitoring: Native has monitored the increase of biodiversity in areas of organic production and native vegetation recovered in certified farms. This Third Campaign of Faunistic Monitoring has the objective of evaluating specific indicators of the settlements of wild vertebrates and their evolution as regards the maturation of the restored vegetation areas that are still in the process of increase of spatial complexity and of resources for shelter and food.
