By SAI Platform 2016

This document

1. Introducing SAI Platform

2. What is Farm Sustainability Assessment (FSA)?

3. How can FSA be used?

4. What are the benefits of FSA?

5. How does FSA work?

6. How is FSA being used?

7. How does FSA benchmarking work?

8. What’s next for FSA?

9. The making of FSA

10. Further information

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Introducing SAI Platform

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What is SAI Platform?

• Created in 2002 by the food industry to support the development of sustainable agriculture worldwide

• 80 members across the value chain

• Covering all major commodities

• Operating globally

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4 Working Groups 4 Committees

Arable & Vegetable

Crops

Beef Dairy Fruit & Nuts Biodiversity Horizon FSA Metrics

What is sustainable agriculture?

Sustainable agriculture is the efficient production of safe, high quality agricultural products, in a way that protects & improves the natural environment, the social and economic conditions of farmers, their employees & local communities, & safeguards the health and welfare of all farmed species

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Sustainable agriculture

Ecology

Society

Economy

SAI Platform’s Vision 2020

Implement secure and thriving agricultural supply chains and protect the earth’s resources through widespread adoption of sustainable practices that deliver value to our members, farmers, farming communities and consumers.

ADOPTION

PRACTICES VALUE

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Engagement along the value chain

Farmer Coops

Traders Processors Manu-

facturers Retailers

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97%* has, or is developing, sustainable sourcing targets for some or all their agricultural raw materials

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*Based on SAI Platform membership survey in 2015

How does SAI Platform work?

SAI Platform is a strategic industry and membership platform working on pre-competitive basis to advance sustainable agriculture, through

Collection &

Exchange of knowledge

and best practice

Harmonisation &

Engagement on definition, tools

and guidelines along the supply chain

Collaboration &

Action to empower change

at farm level

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Implementation Projects

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• Sustainable sugar beet production in Europe (using FSA).

• Doñana strawberry and sustainable water management.

• Pre-competitive collaboration towards joint water risk assessment and mitigation worldwide.

• Dairy Sustainability Framework.

• FSA implementation for orange production by smallholders in Brazil.

• Sustainable Rice Project Group.

Others under discussion (eg. Barley/France)

What is Farm Sustainability Assessment (FSA)?

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Food & drink companies want to increase the amount of sustainably grown agricultural products they buy from farmers

BUT meeting the sustainable sourcing needs is a challenge for farmers, because it is done in different ways by different companies using different criteria

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FSA in a nutshell: The challenge

FSA solves the challenge because it allows farmers – for the first time– to assess, improve and report their sustainable agricultural practices in a way that is recognized by their customers

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FSA in a nutshell: A universal tool

FSA in a nutshell

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1. A simple yet comprehensive method for assessing farm sustainability, applicable to all crops (including arable, fruit & vegetables) & to all farm sizes.

2. Addresses enviromental, social & economic aspects.

3. Based on SAI Platform Principles and Practices.

4. Offers an easy scoring system resulting in a clear overview of the farm’s sustainability.

FSA in a nutshell: Not just ‘fair’ or ‘eco’...

Enviromental Agro-chemicals

Air

Biodiversity

Crop Protection

Planting

Soil Management

Waste Management

Water Management

Social

Health and Safety

Labor Conditions

Local Community

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Economic

Financial Stability

Market Access

Legal Compliance

The FSA questions are based on sustainable farming practices recognized in the food and drink industry, covering environmental, economic and social aspects

How can FSA be used?

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1. Assess farm sustainability

2. Use as basis for improvement plans

3. Benchmark tool to gauge other certification schemes and proprietary codes: assess completeness & basis for improvement plans

4. Use as a company’s (external) sustainable agriculture standard

5. Aggregation of farm sustainability data, across regions, commodities

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FSA in a nutshell: Uses of FSA

What are the benefits of FSA?

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Scale sustainable farming practices & the volume of sustainably grown agricultural products globally

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What are the benefits of FSA?

Current situation: Multiple schemes & complexity

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80% the same!

What are the benefits of FSA? Reducing complexity: towards one language

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Risk assessment Company Reference

Standards Benchmark

On-farm Assessment

• Improve performance

•Save time & resource

•Reduce costs

• Improve market access

•A global tool

•Multi-purpose

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FSA: Benefits for farmers

•Help achieve sustainability objectives

•Saving time & resources

•A harmonized benchmark

• Impact through collaboration

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FSA: Benefits for companies

How does FSA work?

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How does FSA work: Assessment form for farmers

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• Farmers complete a simple spreadsheet or online assessment made up of a number of key questions which assess their sustainable agricultural practices and provides them with a result

• The questions are based on sustainable farming practices recognized by the food and drink industry and cover relevant enviromental, economic & social impacts of farming

FSA scores sustainable agriculture on 3 performance levels

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FSA process – an overview

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Benchmark Company

Sustainable Sourcing Guidelines

FSA as SA reference

Implement FSA

Certification Schemes

FSA direct with farmers

Shared reference among SAI Platform

members

Data management and scoring via ITC

Scheme rules for audits

SAI Platform Implementation Guidelines for sampling, verification,

data management with audit protocol and approved auditors

Shared implementation and audits among SAI members

How is FSA being used?

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Used globally in 24 countries

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Available in 18 local languages

English

French B. Portuguese

Italian

German

Romanian

Russian

Spanish

Hungarian

Swedish

Dutch

Czech

Slovakian

Polish

Hebrew Turkish Chinese Mandarin Greek

Who uses FSA? SAI Platform members and others...

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Over 30 leading food and drink companies use FSA as a preferred method of assessing their farmers’ sustainable agricultural practices, including Coca-Cola, McCain, Mondelez & Unilever

SAI Platform Projects using FSA

• Sugar Beet production in Europe

• Strawberry and Sustainable Water Management in Donana (Spain)

• Orange production in Brazil

• Rice production in Spain

• Arable commodities in Canada

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How does FSA benchmarking work?

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Standard To Be Benchmarked

Against FSA

SAI P Secretariat Performs Benchmark

Preliminary Result

Approved 3rd Parties Perform Benchmark

Preliminary Result

FSA Benchmark Committee Reviews

Final Score

SAI P Secretariat Discusses Results With

Standard Owner

Score Published on SAI P Website

ʺOtherʺ Performs Benchmark

Draft Result

Approved 3rd Parties Review Benchmark

Preliminary Result

SAI P Benchmarking Methodology

List of Approved

3rd Parties

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FSA Benchmarking – What is the Process?

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How do we do the benchmark?

What’s next for FSA?

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• We will continue to engage with key stakeholders (academics, NGO’s, farmer organizations) interested in accelerating the transition to sustainable agriculture globally.

• We revise FSA every 3 years to improve it & are eager to engage with a broad cross-section of stakeholders in this process.

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FSA: External stakeholder engagement

Revision of FSA: from 2.0 to 3.0

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• The FSA for crops will be revised, from version 2.0 to 3.0

• Starting Jan 2016. New version available in April 2017

• Strong involvement of external stakeholders

• Current planning

• Public and targeted consultation March/April 2016

FSA revision process

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Plan of action

ToR New FSA

Implementation methodologies

Experts External

Stakeholders

3.0

Start Research Revision

The FSA online platform

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• Working with the ITC, we are building a more robust IT enviroment for better uptake and usability of the online platform

• We are creating additional functionality: • Data management and aggregation

• More languages, legislation filters

• User support

The making of FSA

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Developing and improving FSA

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PHASE 2: FSA 1.0 PILOT

First draft went through a pilot phase & stakeholder consultation phase.

PHASE 3: FSA 2.0

The result of this process is FSA 2.0, launched in April 2014.

We work hard on FSA implementation & scaling

PHASE 4: FUTURE

We will revise FSA every 3 years. We continue to add fuctionality : Data management & aggregation, more languages, legislation filters, & user support.

PHASE 1: ORIGINS

FSA developed in response to need for single set of requirements on which the industry is aligned.

The making of FSA - How it started

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• Request among SAI Platform members: turn Principles & Practices and agreed definitions of sustainable agriculture practices, into one single, harmonized and practical tool

• FSA 1.0 was released in April 2013

• A dozen companies accepted, used and tested FSA 1.0

• Beyond companies & farmers, FSA was developed and tested with expert input from academics, NGO’s, civil society & farmer organisations, and suppliers

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The making of FSA – How it started

The making of FSA - Testing of Farmer Self Assessment 1.0

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FSA Governance within SAI Platform

Advisory

Council SAI Platform Executive Committee

Secretariat FSA Governance

Benchmarking Verification & Integrity

Enablers Technical/IT Communication &

Credibility Food

Safety European Beef FSA

Benchmarking Methodology and

Scoring And translations

Implementation Framework,

Verification Audits

Implementation of Self-

Assessments ITC Online Tool

Comms Toolbox and Stakeholder

Engagement

Further information

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Jenny Edwards FSA Programme Manager

jedwards@saiplatform.org

Contact details

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