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The State of Sustainable Markets 2019

4 Oct 2019

FiBL works to encourage sustainable production in the food and agriculture sector, in part by contributing to the development of the guidelines for Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture Systems (SAFA), published in 2013 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). [...] CHAPTER 1 – SUSTAINABILITy STANDARDS: IN THE MAINSTREAM 3 Hectares Double-digit area shares for many commodities The commodities with large certified areas – cotton, cocoa and coffee – also had the highest certified shares of the total area (Table 1): In 2017, one of the standards covered in this report certified almost 25% of the global cocoa area and more than 23% of the global coffee area. [...] In terms of the certified share of the global banana area, the minimum is 6%, the maximum is 9.9% and the average is 7.9%. [...] In terms of the certified share of the global cocoa area, the minimum is 23.4%, the maximum is 40.8% and the average is 32.1%. [...] In terms of the certified share of the global coffee area, the minimum is 22.1%, the maximum is 37.6% and the average is 29.9%.
agriculture environment forests food sustainability economy science and technology farmers natural resources economic sector fair trade organic food human activities fsc food and drink natural environment forest stewardship council fairtrade utz certified organic pefc programme for the endorsement of forest certification rainforest alliance sustainability standards and certification rspo utz bonsucro
ISBN
9789211036756
Pages
72
Published in
Winnipeg, MN, CA

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