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%.