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SLC
Agrícola
Risk management
Integrated Report 2019
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The management of risks associated to our
business model was improved and reinforced in 2019
with the approval of the Risk Management Policy
by the Administrative Council. This instrument
establishes principles and guidelines, and also
defines corporate responsibilities for identification,
assessment and mitigation of factors that can
negatively impact the company.
Moreover, our management is supported by
the Market Risk Management Policy, which set
forth guidelines to protect the company's
operational margin in face of exchange rate
variations and commodities' prices. This governance
guideline, applied since 2008, is periodically
reviewed to adapt structures to the changes in the
context where we operate.
Among the main risk factors we manage is the
exposure of the company to dollar variation and
the impact of obligations in foreign currency on the
company's cash flow, since large part of inputs have
their price tied to the North-American currency and
the products' destination is the foreign market. To face
this exposure, we count on a patrimonial protection
strategy (hedge) and use different instrument to keep
exposure within acceptable risk limits.
The processes that we adopt to manage risks in an
integrated way are aligned to the best practices and
methodologies and allow that, with the involvement
of all areas; the main externalities are identified and
categorized in a Matrix that will assess probability of
occurrence and impact on the organization. Risks
perceived are divided in six different categories and
prioritized according to limit criteria as established
by existing mitigation policies and actions.
Treatment of residual risks is made through action
plans defined by the Board and implemented by
leaders of areas impacted by these factors. The
policy provides for the installation of an internal
audit area, directly linked to the Administrative
Council, to continuously assess the efficacy of the
processes developed for this management.
ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance)
risk management is grounded on the Integrated
Management System (IMS) and its certifications
associated to environment (ISO 14001),
occupational safety (OHSAS 18001), social
responsibility (NBR 16001) and quality (ISO 9001).
These norms have specific requirements to survey
critical aspects and impacts in each of these themes,
ensuring the identification of hazards and risks
and the definition of respective applicable control
measures. The IMS also includes periodic internal
audits and external verifications to expand the
number of certified farms (learn more on page 26).
Associated to this management, we monitor with
a specialized team and periodic inspections two
water dams in Pamplona Farm, thus ensuring
compliance of preventive maintenances and the
safety of these facilities. The farms also count on
a trained team to respond to emergency situations
associated to accidents and other events that
may put at risk the patrimony or the physical
integrity of employees.
In the context of climate changes, we count
on business differentials that contribute to our
adaptation capacity. Besides the 99% of areas
cultivated in dry farming, we distribute our farms
geographically across six states of the Brazilian
Cerrado, biome characterized by higher stability
of rainfall regime. Aiming at mitigating our impacts
to global warming, we defined, in 2019, a plan for
reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, in order to
reduce them by 25% in the coming decade.
25%
reduction
in GHG emissions is
one of our goals for the
next decade
CO₂
Annexes
GRI 102-15 | 201-2
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