With a workshop in the Dominican Republic we will conclude the Training for the implementation of the Biodiversity Check Agrícola tool.
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During November 2018 we conducted a pilot using a risk-based approach to assess key sustainability issues in smallholder rubber sourcing in Ivory Coast. Now we share the results.
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We are hiring a new Executive Director. The application process will be open until February 10th.
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The SAN-Nestlé Spices Responsible Sourcing Partnership focus its work on four key spices in India. Learn more about them in these crop profiles.
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The SAN will have a new executive director in 2019, with the departure of Andre de Freitas at the end of the year.
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This November 29 will begin in Costa Rica the I Training Workshop for the implementation of the Biodiversity Check Agrícola tool.
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Our Excecutive Director, Andre de Freitas, spoke at Re:co Symposium about the trends in sustainable sourcing and how we think agriculture sustainability is changing in order to deliver major impact.
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We’re leading a project to develop a voluntary tool that will help to evaluate and improve biodiversity conservation practices at the farm and landscape level in Central America and the Caribbean.
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We’re pleased to present our new sustainability program "Farms for the Future", especially designed to respond to the challenges agriculture faces in today’s world, of preparing to feed 10 billion people in 2050, and do so in an environmentally and socially sustainable way. We invite you to learn more.
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In the new episode of "Sustainability Dialogues" we spoke with Kim Elena Ionescu, Chief Sustainability Officer of the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA). The SCA is a nonprofit, membership-based organization that represents thousands of coffee professionals, from producers to baristas all over the world. SCA acts as a unifying force within the specialty coffee industry and works to make coffee better by raising standards worldwide through a collaborative and progressive approach.
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The Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) and Nestle signed an agreement to work together for the next two years in order to develop a sustainability system to improve the responsible source of spices.
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In this paper we share some experiences about our outcome-based standard development, from a practitioner’s point of view.
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Our Sustainable Agriculture Framework (SAN-SAF) contributes towards achieving 41 targets under 14 SDGs.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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