2016 GLOBAL ACCESS TO NUTRITION INDEX

FOOD FOUNDATION

LONDON, 10 FEBRUARY 2016

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Encourage improvements in companies’ policies, practices and performance to result in:

• Greater consumer access to more nutritious foods and beverages• An environment facilitating the consumption of healthier foods and beverages

InvestorsProvide context for company engagementMediaRaise profile of industry role in malnutrition

Civil societyFacilitate effective advocacy

PolicymakersInform regulatory and policy agenda

AcademicsStimulate research on best practices

Provide companies a tool for benchmarking their nutrition

practices

Serve as an impartial source of information for interested

stakeholders

Stimulate dialogue

and action

Given its size and reach, the private sector can make a significant contribution to addressing obesity and undernutrition.

ATNI seeks to

Tool for accountabilit

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What ATNF aims to achieve – our theory of change

The private sector can play a powerful role….

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… and has a financial and social responsibility to act

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2016 Global Index methodology

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2016 Global Index methodology

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Overall ranking

• Unilever leads the Index, with a score of 6.4 out of 10

• Nestlé and Danone also remain in the top three, as in 2013

• Mars (16 to 5) & FrieslandCampina (19 to 8) have improved the most

• Eight have risen, six fallen, five stayed the same, three new entrants.

Overall findings

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The world’s largest food companies must step up efforts to address the global nutrition crisis – investors can play a key role

• Some companies have made improvements but the industry as a whole is moving too slowly: the average score has only increased to 2.5 from 2.2 in the 2013 Index

• All companies must invest more in embedding nutrition into their global businesses

– To tackle obesity, they should adopt stronger nutrition strategies and policies and use robust systems to measure the nutritional value of all of their products and make their foods healthier, among other things

– To tackle undernutrition, they must invest within their businesses and work with governments and civil society to find innovative ways of providing affordable and accessible foods for poorer people

• Companies must take a global approach; US companies particularly must not just focus on their home markets, as they typically do

• The marketing practices of all six of the baby food manufacturers evaluated in a new element of the assessment fall short of international standards, undermining breastfeeding which is the optimal form of nutrition for infants

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Category B - Products• Unilever leads with significant margin over

Nestlé

• Higher ranking than in 2013: FrieslandCampina, Mars and Ferrero

• Lower ranking: Kellogg’s and ConAgra

• Inadequate efforts to improve products’ nutritional quality

• Nutrient Profiling system: only 13 companies report having one

• % of products that can be advertised to children• Proxy for healthiness of product portfolio• Only Danone and Unilever provided data

• Fortification of products to tackle undernutrition • Only Ajinomoto, Danone,

FrieslandCampina, Mondelez, Nestlé, Coca-Cola and Unilever have formulated a commitment

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Category D - Marketing• Highest-scoring Category, Danone leads.

• Marketing to all consumers 7 companies without evidence of a responsible marketing policy

• Marketing to children • Most companies subscribing to self-

regulatory pledges • But significant gaps remain in pledges

• Not applied to all media• Do not cover over 12s• Audience threshold for children 35%

• Definition of marketability to children• Only Kellogg, Ferrero, Danone,

Nestlé and Unilever use a robust NPS

• GLOBAL policies on responsible marketing to children and adults, applied to all channels, particularly new media, are required.

• No data on marketing spending on healthy products

Categories C, E, F and G – average scores very low

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Category C: Accessibility and affordability

Category E: Support for healthy and active lifestyles

• Most companies engage with nutrition stakeholders but unclear whether and how they use the results to improve policies and practice

• Very little engagement on undernutrition

• Much more transparency is needed on companies’ lobbying activities on nutrition

• Critical issue• Lowest scoring Category on the

Index, as in 2013.

• Companies expected to do much more to make healthy foods in developed and developing markets more affordable and more accessible.

• Generally a low-scoring Category• Employee wellness programs need to

be strengthened and extended• More focus needed on supporting

breastfeeding mothers at work• Companies need to move to

supporting independently designed and implemented programs to support consumers

Category F: Labelling and claims

• Back-of-pack labelling commitments reasonably good; generally not globally consistent and some key nutrients missed

• Lack of data from companies on extent of policy roll-out

• Focus needs to be on useful front-of-pack labelling and responsible use of health and nutrition claims. Category G: Engagement with

stakeholders and policymakers

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Discussion