Agriculture in Action: From Traceability to Regeneration (Jan 5–18)

A two-week pulse across SAN’s Global Impact Network

Across the last two weeks, SAN members rallied around five shared priorities: regenerative, climate-resilient farming; invasive species vigilance; end-to-end traceability; farmer-centered capacity building; and the power of soil biodiversity. Together, these threads show a sector moving from commitments to measurable outcomes.

Defending harvests & habitats

CABI paired actionable plant-health guidance with urgent ecosystem alerts: IPM remains the best defense against fall armyworm in Asian rice; whiteflies and Botrytis threaten crops across systems; and invasive plants—from Parthenium (now in 48 countries) to Old Man’s Beard in New Zealand—demand early detection and rapid response.

Rice in action: Preferred by Nature scales SRP-certified value chains in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta—cutting water use and emissions—while CABI advances IPM to curb fall armyworm across Asian rice systems. Photo: Getty Images for Unsplash

RAAA Perú kept the conversation farmer-friendly and science-based—elevating “natural allies” like pill bugs for soil fertility and warning that declining island guano supplies could constrain agroecological production.

From traceability to transformation in textiles

CottonConnect advanced supply-chain credibility and climate resilience on three fronts:

• multi-layered organic integrity (training + testing + TraceBale digital capture),

• the real-time risk of extreme heat to fashion supply chains, and

• tangible impact numbers from the Primark Cotton Project (e.g., 90% of farmers adopting more regenerative practices; 70% reusing livestock manure).

  
  

Rice & coffee: proof that regeneration scales

In Vietnam, Preferred by Nature showcased cooperatives and companies co-creating SRP-certified rice value chains—lowering water use and emissions, cutting costs, and delivering safer rice to consumers.

Meanwhile, the Rainforest Alliance reinforced a clear, science-based definition of regenerative agriculture and launched LandRISE, a one-year initiative with The Coca-Cola Foundation to support vulnerable communities across five agricultural landscapes—while even teaming up with Supercell’s Hay Day to gamify tree-growing.

Neighborhood Nurture: Rainforest Alliance teams up with Supercell’s Hay Day, rallying neighbors to grow trees in-game and spark real-world sustainability awareness.

Farmer-first capacity building

In Romania and across Europe, Fundatia Adept reflected on ClimateSmartAdvisors—how farmers can care for pastures and livestock as climate impacts intensify. In Pakistan, REEDS deepened technical excellence at a three-day workshop on modern crop management and pest control.

Bioeconomy & community momentum

The Circular Bioeconomy Alliance spotlighted its 2025 grant enabling the African NGOs Alliance for Environmental Sustainability (ANAES) to expand capacity building and knowledge exchange through ARCOS Network partnerships—evidence that finance aligned with nature and health can move community programs at scale.

Why this matters

From IPM wins and SRP rice to traceable cotton, regeneration and soil-life allies, the last two weeks show our Network’s shared trajectory: credible standards and tools connected to farmer reality, with results that strengthen livelihoods, restore ecosystems, and build climate resilience. That’s the SAN advantage—global ambition, local precision, delivered through our Global Impact Network.

Our Network’s heartbeat: radical collaboration

Weaving diverse members and partners together is how SAN multiplies impact—turning knowledge into shared practice and trust into execution. It’s not a slogan; it’s our operating system.