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Sustainable Agriculture Network/Rainforest Alliance

On February 1, 2010 the IOAS started working with the Sustainable Agriculture Network in a pilot project to provide independent accreditation of the certification and inspection bodies involved in certifying farms for the Rainforest Alliance label.

Press release on SAN pilot project.

Scheme owner

The Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) is a coalition of independent non-profit conservation organizations that promote the social and environmental sustainability of agricultural activities by developing standards. The Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) promotes efficient agriculture, biodiversity conservation and sustainable community development by creating social and environmental standards. SAN fosters best management practices across agricultural value chains by encouraging farmers to comply with SAN standards and by motivating traders and consumers to support sustainability. Accredited certification bodies certify farms or group administrators that comply with SAN’s standards and policies. Certified farms or group administrators can apply for use of the Rainforest Alliance Certified™ seal for products grown on certified farms.

Since 1992, more than 800 certificates for more than 200,000 farms - including small family farms of cooperatives, as well as plantations - in over 30 countries have met the SAN standards on more than 1,000,000 ha for more than 25 crops including coffee, cocoa, banana, tea, pineapple, flowers and foliage, and citrus. 

The requirements

The SAN accreditation system is based on ISO/IEC Guide 65:1996 with additional SAN requirements developed by SAN technical experts. SAN has designated the IOAS as the accreditation body to assess and monitor certification bodies that wish to provide certification to the SAN standards as follows:

  • Standard for Sustainable Agriculture, Standard for Sustainable Cattle Production Systems, List of Prohibited Pesticides and Farm Certification Policy.
  • Group Certification Standard and Group Certification Policy.
  • Chain of Custody Standard and Chain of Custody Policy.

This scheme is not yet open.

For more information on this project please contact Amaia Aldana

 

 

Last updated: 09/01/2012

 

Amaia Aldana

Amaia Aldana - SAN liaison

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