The Farm Labor Due Diligence Initiative

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The Farm Labor Due Diligence Initiative (FLDDI) is a Verité-led collaboration with companies and civil society organizations.

It seeks to define good practices and create tools to help companies, suppliers, and agricultural producers eliminate labor abuses from global agricultural supply chains.

Objectives of the Initiative

The Initiative aims to ensure that robust and proven HRDD approaches become the norm in agricultural supply chains. To do so, the Initiative will focus on:

  • Disseminating the FLDD Toolkit and First Mile Toolkit to companies, first mile operations, civil society organizations, multistakeholder initiatives, and governmental organizations
  • Expanding access to the existing tools, including through translation into additional languages
  • Supporting companies and first mile operations to apply the tools in their own operations and supply chains
  • Partnering with companies and first mile operations to develop new tools to be added to the Toolkit
  • Engaging with current discussions about HRDD guidelines and policy frameworks to promote uptake of robust and proven approaches

History of the Initiative

The Farm Labor Due Diligence Initiative was founded in 2022. Since then, the Initiative has achieved a number of key milestones, including the development and launch of:

  • A comprehensive HRDD framework for agricultural supply chains with 6 “elements” of due diligence, and specific “components” associated with each element
  • Detailed tools for each HRDD element, with guidance, a maturity framework, and action steps for each of the element’s components
  • A First Mile Toolkit tailored to the context of first mile operations in global supply chains, available in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese
  • An interactive website that allows visitors to benchmark their company’s HRDD practices and explore the FLDD toolkit online

Verité is grateful for the funding and support of the generous private sector and civil society partners that formed the Initiative’s Advisory Council and are featured below. Special thanks go to Philip Morris International, Mars, Incorporated, and the Rainforest Alliance, who participated in the Technical Working Group that drafted the Farm Labor Due Diligence Toolkit v1 (September 2024). Together, the Advisory Council and Technical Working Group ensure that the tools are as robust, practical, and scalable as possible.

Our partners

The Farm Labor Due Diligence Initiative is funded and supported by generous private sector and civil society partners. These partners serve as an Advisory Council, providing input on the development of the Initiative’s framework and tools.

Cargill

Cargill

ECOM

ECOM

JDE Peet's

Jacobs Douwe Egberts

Fairtrade

Fairtrade International

Mars

Mars, Incorporated

McDonalds

McDonald’s

Philip Morris International

Philip Morris International

Rainforest Alliance

Rainforest Alliance

Acknowledgements and thanks

Verité is grateful to have received financial support from Fundación Avina through the Periplo Project for technical inputs to the project, and funding for the review, technical inputs, and translation of this tool provided by the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) through the Senderos Project.
Funding for the Senderos Project is provided by USDOL under cooperative agreement number 24K75IL034209-01-02. This material does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of USDOL, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the United States Government (USG). 100% of the total costs of the Senderos Project are financed with federal funds from the USG, totaling $10,000,000 dollars.

Verité is grateful to have received financial support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) through the Protecting Migrant Workers in the Cocoa Sector of Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana project to fund the development of the new FLDD Toolkit microsite, launched June 2025.

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Are you interested in supporting or participating in the Farm Labor Due Diligence Initiative?

Contact the FLDD team