This report gives a Four Pillar Framework aimed at providing a tool to help a wide range of stakeholders meet the expectations of customers, clients, citizens, and the global community. The primary audience for the standards is food processing companies that are serious about making the necessary transformational changes to their businesses to align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

From the business perspective, aligning with the SDGs presents opportunities to meet social responsibilities and stakeholder expectations, and it helps avoid risks to the bottom line across complex issue areas.

Included among the recommendations is that “companies participate in, and support the development of, worker-driven monitoring initiatives with living wage mechanisms, such as the Fair Food Program,e through which buyers pay an additional premium that is tracked “through the supply chain and to its final distribution as a line-item bonus on workers’ pay checks.”