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Article

7 Nov 2013

Author:
Coca-Cola

The Coca-Cola Company Commitment - Land Rights and Sugar

…[W]e acknowledge our responsibility to take action and to use our influence to help protect the land rights of local communities…The Coca-Cola Company will conduct third-party social, environmental and human rights assessments beginning in Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, India, Philippines, Thailand and South Africa…The Coca-Cola Company will disclose within three years all sourcing countries for cane sugar and publish the names of all of our direct cane sugar suppliers…The Coca-Cola Company will adhere to the principle of Free, Prior and Informed Consent across our operations…The Coca-Cola system will engage with Tate and Lyle, Trapiche and Bunge…and review the suppliers’ overall policies regarding land rights within their supply chain…[refers to COPERSUCAR, Dangote, Mitr Phol]