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News and views from SAI Platform, our members and across the sustainable agriculture sector
Collins Higgins Commodities wins the 2025 FSA Growing a Better Planet Award for sustainable farming leadership
Verification with the FSA: Proof of Progress in Sustainable Agriculture
INDOCERT Becomes First FSA Verifier Under New ASI Process
Südzucker-Moldova pioneers Moldova’s first FSA-verified farm
Methods paper calls for industry collaboration to scale regenerative agriculture
SAI Platform partners with ASI to strengthen FSA assurance system
Call for submissions for the 2025 FSA Growing A Better Planet Award
FSA Steering Committee: Call for Nominations
SAI Platform’s 2025 Milestones: Industry collaboration to shape the future of Regenerative Agriculture
Growing a Better Planet: Sabater reveals a unique story for sustainable paprika
Simpsons Malt wins the FSA’s Growing A Better Planet Award 2024
SAI Platform and UEBT join forces to accelerate the responsible sourcing of wild-harvested botanicals
The FSA’s year of growth and global expansion
Navigating the growing requirements of EU sustainability legislation
SAI Platform launches Advisor Network to support on the ground action
Empowering smallholder farmers in South East Asia
Call for submissions for the 2024 FSA Growing A Better Planet Award
FSA Growing a Better Planet Award 2023 Shortlist
Empowering farmers to demonstrate, enhance and verify on-farm sustainability
Interview with Guilherme Ortega of Solidaridad, Brazil
Interview with Alina Menżyńska – Farm Frites Poland
SAI Platform Releases new FSA Outcome Measurement Handbook expanding its scope to cover Soil, Water and Biodiversity.
Interview with Tamás Sarkadi – Sabater
New online FSA training ensures user knowledge, skills and empowerment
Interview with Emil Dalsgaard Hansen, Director of Grain – DAKOFO
FSA 3.0 re-benchmarking now finalised
Field to Market Announces Gold Level Equivalence against SAI Platform’s FSA 3.0
The FSA’s Growing A Better Planet Award 2023 goes to Phata Sugarcane Outgrowers Cooperative
Interview with Gabriel Sarasin, Director of Sustainability and Technology – McCORMICK
SAI Platform pilots the Wild Harvest Sustainability Assessment in Hungary.
Crops Working Group and FSA Community of Practice – Rome Event
Call for submissions for the FSA Growing A Better Planet Award
The FSA advances sustainable production for the Florida citrus industry
The Farm Sustainability Assessment: Globally significant and locally relevant
Growing a Better Planet: Ocean Spray reveals a unique story for sustainable cranberries
FSA re-benchmarking deadline closed
Farm Sustainability Assessment 3.0 now available in Chinese
New FSA 3.0 User Guide released
FSA 3.0 continues to accelerate the adoption of sustainable agriculture practices
The Wild Harvest Sustainability Assessment
FSA Measurement and Integration Workstream: Call for nominations
We welcome Lorenz Snack-World as a SAI Platform member
First Gold Level benchmark achieved against FSA 3.0
Benchmark equivalence achieved for SAI Platform’s FSA 3.0
FSA Steering Committee: Call for nominations
McCormick’s Grown for Good Standard achieves Silver Level equivalence against SAI Platform’s Farm Sustainability Assessment
First Benchmark Equivalence achieved for FSA 3.0
SAI Platform’s Wild Harvest Sustainability Assessment to be released Spring 2022
Interview with Martina Pia Campisi of O.P. Esperidio
FSA Workstreams: Call for nominations
Growing a better planet: Nordzucker sugar beet leading the way in sustainable agriculture practices
FSA now available in seven additional languages
Newly approved FSA Verification Bodies Imaflora and ECAS
Growing momentum for the FSA in Florida’s orange industry
Wild Harvest Sustainability Assessment achieves major milestone
Online FSA Learning Centre is key to cultivating on-farm sustainability
World’s first FSA verification for cinnamon: McCormick & Company tell us how
Growing a better planet: industry uptake of FSA to meet sustainability targets
The Sustainable Rice Platform National Interpretation Guideline (NIG) for the U.S.A. Achieves Silver Level Equivalence with Farm Sustainability Assessment
#GrowingABetterPlanet: Outlook on the new FSA 3.0
FSA Accelerator: Russia Project successfully accomplishes on-farm sustainability for the sugar-beet industry
FSA auditors to benefit from tailored online training course
FSA – the industry solution generating interest in China
Interview with Alexander Pfeifer and Hannes Werth of VOG Products
FSA Community of Practice gathers in support of FSA 3.0 developments
BASF, Boortmalt and SAI Platform partner for sustainable barley production
Wild Harvest Project completes successful assessment development phase
Birds Eye pea harvest verified as first Farm Sustainability Assessment (FSA) Gold Level supply chain in the UK
Online, interactive, FSA learning session comes to China
Interview Athanasios Mandis: “In essence, we are looking at a slicker FSA Self-Assessment Questionnaire with a call for greater clarity on performance.”
SAI Platform members and key partners invited to sneak preview of FSA 3.0
SAI Platform’s Farm Sustainability Assessment (FSA) now available on SupplyShift
Benchmark shows: ‘On the way to PlanetProof’ meets FSA Gold level equivalence for sustainable farming
FSA arriving at the heart of sustainable agriculture in Latin America
Launch of FSA 3.0 postponed until Spring 2021
PepsiCo’s Sustainable Farming Program Achieves Silver Level Equivalence in the USA with Farm Sustainability Assessment
SAI Platform and ITC launch new FSA Benchmarking Portal
SAI Platform invests in better support and service to FSA users