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Existing tools to help you build the business case around SA

SAI Platform Members

AFFILIATE MEMBERS

Why Sustainable Agriculture?

Many challenges and opportunities for farmers, society & the food sector

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Ecosystem- services & Biodiversity

Climate Change Volatile

• Ag. Prices

Land Degradation

Water Scarcity

Non-food use (fuels) New technologies GMOs Natural Resources

Improving Yields

Ensured Supply

Rural Livelihood

Reduced Extension Services Growing Demand for Food

Overgrazing Soil conservation

People Profit Planet

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What are Sustainable Agricultural Practices?

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So what?

How to check, measure, compare and report about improvement? 1) Check if best practices are applied

• with internal compliance verification mechanism, or
• through third party verification, e.g. certification

scheme) 2) Measure impact with consistent metrics for sustainability

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Checking if SA Practices are correctly applied

A company may chose to check the above internally OR for some reasons (credibility, recognition, logistics), a company may chose to use a certification scheme

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Measuring and reporting about progress

Member companies asked us to develop a common balanced system of farm metrics and tools to help farmers measure, understand, improve and report about progress. The Sustainability Performance Assessment (SPA) Project – was launched, with phases I and II

• 1. Started from our Principles and Practices
• 2. Analysed what was already available and in use.
• 3. Selected what was applicable: most simple, scientifically

sound, readily available@farm, measurable, comparable.

SPA Phase I Example of indicators and metrics: for dairy

Table 1 : Overview of quantified sustainability indicators I ndicator Metrics Data derived from Anim al w elfare and health ( dairy) body condition score, Welfare Quality Approach estimated on farm (visual inspection) space: m2 area per cow and space per animal at feeding fence measured on farm locomotion score estimated on farm Hygiene ( dairy) Milk quality milk temperature measured on farm substances in milk and somatic cell count measured on farm

SPA Phase II Example of tools: RISE

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SPA Phase III ToRs for tool developers

• Data entered by

farmer

Farm data

• Data from

(regional) databases

Background data

• Calculation

rules

• Boundaries
• Etc.

Methodology

• Output

and unit

Indicator

• Sustainabi

lity concern

Issue

Priority issues 1. Climate & energy 2. Water quantity 3. Nutrients 4. Soil quality 5. Biodiversity 6. Pesticides 7. Land use Content: Later on:

• Farm economics
• Workers health & safety
• Animal welfare