Transcript Introduction to SAI Platform

The Sustainable Agriculture
Initiative (SAI) Platform’s
sustainability activities in the
Dairy Sector
Why SAI Platform? (1/2)
“Sustainability is becoming a business imperative; doing
nothing is no longer an option. It is about securing your
business for the future.”
“Consumer awareness, pressure on commodity and energy
prices, scarcity of raw materials, together with regulator and
competitor actions are combining to ensure businesses cannot
ignore the environmental and social dimensions of how they
operate”
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 2008 report
“Sustainability: are consumers buying it?”
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Why SAI Platform? (2/2)
Main challenges in front of us – for farmers, society & the food sector
Volatile
Ag. Prices
Non-food
use (fuels)
Professionalization
farmers
Rural
Livelihood
Climate change
Land
degradation
Food
(in)security
New
technologies
GMOs
Diminishing
Biodiversity
7/18/2015
Improved
yields
needed
Water
scarcity
Reduced
extension
services
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What is SAI Platform
A Food Industry initiative aiming to actively:
- Support the development of SA through commodity-specific
groups
- Exchange information & communicate worldwide about SA
Working on a pre-competitive basis
Including all good ideas/initiatives contributing to SA
TRADING
companies
Research
Academic
FOOD
companies
IGOs
Trade
& Policymakers
NGOs
Financial
Institutions
Media
Other
stakeholders
Input
Advisory
providers Services
CONSUMERS
Food chain
RETAILERS
PRODUCERS
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Members
Agroterra
IN COOPERATION WITH:
7/18/2015
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Countries
Our Members – independently and through SAI Platform Working
Groups – have pilot projects in over 35 countries
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Activities and products
Services
Research & Development
Education & Training
• Access Point
• Knowledge sharing
• Conference
Innovative support to member
project managers, designed to
ensure access to knowledge
and know how on sustainable
agriculture
Innovation and knowledge sharing
to fulfill stakeholders needs (incl.
Forum for discussion of broad
research, practical solutions,
achievements & services; SArelated issues of current &
forthcoming relevance
• Advisory Activities
• Research/technology
Provide customized support to
member companies
Monitor developments and
outcome of sustainable agriculture
pilot projects and documentation
• Continuous
improvement and
advanced education
• Practices Library
Establish repository of
sustainable agricultural
practices and success cases
Support to companies
through Working Groups focusing on
specific crops – cereal, coffee, dairy,
fruit, vegetable - and issues – water,
climate change)
(measurement)
Application of results to leverage
costs & benefits to all
stakeholders
Innovation
Ensured by delivering custom
made executive education &
training programs led by top
facilitators
Development
of Human Capital
The Working Group Dairy
Example:
The Working Group Dairy
Members
Chair: J.P. Rennaud
Vice-Chair: Sarah Patterson
Members:
and the International Dairy Federation - IDF
Activity 1: Promoting
Sustainable Dairy Practices
• Publication of Principles and
Practices for Sustainable Dairy
Production (endorsed by IDF)
• Identification of indicators of
progress
• Exploring the development of a
code/standard as guarantee in trade
SAI Platform – Dairy Working Group
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Activity 2: Measuring GHG
emissions 1/3
STEPS TAKEN:
• Comparison of 27 methods and studies
to measure GHG emissions at farm level
• Recommendations for the development
of a single method to measure these
• Coordination with key stakeholder
groups to achieve that (IDF, Global Dairy
Platform - GDP, The UN Food and
Agriculture Organisation - FAO etc)
Dairy Working Group
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Activity 2: Measuring GHG
emissions 2/3
MAIN FINDINGS OF THE STUDY
• Methodologies are widespread
• International/national alignment is
necessary
• Objective of this industry alignment is to:
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Know the hotspots and key impacts
Standardise methods and data
Make sound comparisons feasible
Anticipate to questions from society
Make actual improvement and mitigation possible
• Further work is required on:
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Scope
Allocation
Data - level of use and quality
Dairy Working Group
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Activity 2: Measuring GHG
emissions 3/3
NEXT STEPS:
• Disaggregation of 18% figure - FAO
• Common methodology
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Farming
Processing
• Apples with Apples
• Collaboration and sharing is key
• Engagement with key organisations
(FAO, UNEP, WBCSD, WWF, The Carbon Trust) align
• Workshops/communications
Dairy Working Group
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What do we have?
• A working group for work in more areas
in the future regardless of affiliation and
location.
• An exciting opportunity to lift the profile of
dairy globally
• On the same page
• A need for continued sharing and
collaborative efforts
Dairy to be seen as a solution not a cause
of Climate Change