Sustainability Dialogues: interview with Robert Nasi (CIFOR)
In the new episode of "Sustainability Dialogues" we spoke with Robert Nasi, Director General of CIFOR – the Center for International Forestry Research. Founded in 1993, CIFOR is a global authority in research and knowledge related to climate change, forestry, food security, biodiversity, landscapes, among others.
CIFOR is a non-profit, scientific institution that conducts research on the most pressing challenges of forest and landscape management in more than 50 countries around the world.
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Sustainable cattle production: why certification schemes outreach is so limited and where to look forward?
Sustainable cattle production require significant changes in the current production systems; this is singularly challenging among cattle ranchers because it means that they have to change several deeply entrenched practices.
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New SAN Sustainable Agriculture Framework: an outcome-based approach to demonstrate sustainability
SAN presents its new technical outcome-based tool that facilitates a combination of elements of verification and support to allow farms to reach, measure and demonstrate specific sustainability results.
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Sustainability Dialogues: interview with Jan von Enden (Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung)
In the new episode of "Sustainability Dialogues" we spoke with Jan von Enden, Managing Director of Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung North America about the challenges and trends of the coffee industry around the world.
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Pollinator-friendly practices in agriculture, the answer to the pollination deficit
Companies are facing potential shortages of raw materials, a fall in crop quality and challenges around security of supply because of an emerging pollination deficit. A new research confirms the pollination deficit and SAN reiterates that the only way to overcome this serious situation is the implementation of pollinator-friendly practices in agriculture.
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Sustainability Dialogues: interview with Tannis Thorlakson (Stanford University)
We begin our series of podcasts called "Sustainability Dialogues" with an interview with Tannis Thorlakson, a PhD student in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment & Resources (E-IPER) at the Stanford School of Earth Sciences.
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SAN and its partner IPPC joined the global expert group that published the Integrated Pest Management guide for Fall Armyworm control in Africa
SAN and IPPC have joined an extensive collaborative effort to contribute to the stop of one of the main pest outbreaks affecting humanity nowadays: the Fall Armyworm attacking African maize fields.
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SAN celebrates historic agreement for the protection of environmental defenders in Latin America and the Caribbean
SAN celebrates and supports the adoption of the first binding regional agreement to protect the rights of access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters.
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SAN leads the development of an App to reduce the use of highly toxic pesticides
“Which Pesticide?” will be a mobile App designed to support a significant reduction of pesticide use and risks. In its first stage it will be available for Brazil, Colombia, India, Mexico and South Africa.
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Moving from compliance to impacts
A couple of weeks ago, I shared a conversation I had with the sustainability director of a major fruit and veg company, in which he stated that they were now receiving 15 different audits/year and spending more time on those than on improving their farms.
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Misaligned incentives: how certification schemes can evolve to improve quality
This post is the first of several from me and my colleagues at SAN on how certification can evolve, based on our experience with different schemes over the years. The series is meant to support further reflections on how to improve these initiatives.
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SAN leads new project to improve risk assessments and detection of forced labour in agricultural supply chains
SAN is leading a project to develop a new methodology and an improved assessment of vulnerability and detection of forced labour in agricultural supply chains that can be implemented by standard systems and wider organizations.
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SAN is now a member of FONAP, the German Forum on Sustainable Palm Oil
The Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) is now a member of FONAP, the Forum Nachhaltiges Palmöl (German Forum on Sustainable Palm Oil) within other 50 organizations and companies.
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The IPM Coalition launches online database to accelerate the elimination of highly hazardous pesticide use throughout the world
The Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) and other eight international sustainability organizations launched www.ipm-coalition.org, an online pesticide database available to farmers for free to support them in eliminating the use of highly hazardous pesticides.
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The missing piece in sustainable palm oil - an exit strategy
While stopping deforestation and new peat conversion is definitely part of the sustainability challenge for oil palm, who is working on an exit strategy from the millions of hectares of peatland already converted?
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SAN and Oregon State University work together to transform agriculture
SAN and OSU will jointly develop science-based tools and programs for integrated pest management and pesticide risk management, founded upon ecological principles.
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It is time to recognize the limits of agriculture certification
In early 2017, SAN decided that it was going to stop working with certification in agriculture. It was actually a fairly easy and straightforward decision. After working with this tool for over 20 years, we could look back and conclude that certification was not the best approach to improve the sustainability of most farmers in the world.
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Is saving water enough?
We hear a lot about saving and conserving water. Sustainable Development Goal 6 aims to “Ensure availability and sustainable management of water...” since “More than 2 billion people globally are living in countries with excess water stress, defined as the ratio of total freshwater withdrawn to total renewable freshwater resources above a threshold of 25 per cent”
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The Rainforest Alliance assumes full ownership of certification system
On August 31, 2017, the Rainforest Alliance and the Sustainable Agriculture Network signed an agreement for the transfer of ownership of the shared RA/SAN certification system entirely to the Rainforest Alliance.
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New 2017 Sustainable Agriculture SAN Standard.
In September 2016, the SAN launched the 2017 Sustainable Agriculture SAN Standard. This standard is the basis of our Assurance Solutions services and of the the Rainforest Alliance certification system, which is used in more than 100 crops and 50 countries.
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