Farm Sustainability Assessment (FSA)
Sustainability has become a strategic necessity in agriculture, essential for conserving resources, protecting livelihoods, and ensuring long-term supply chain resilience. The Farm Sustainability Assessment (FSA), developed by the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) Platform, provides farms and agri-businesses with a practical toolset to assess, improve, and verify on-farm sustainability performance. Applicable to all crops and farm sizes, the FSA helps food and beverage companies evaluate, enhance, and verify on-farm sustainability within their supply chains. By using a standardised set of farmer-focused questions, the FSA streamlines the assessment process and promotes consistent, comparable sustainability performance across farms.
What are the 11 sustainability topic areas??
INDOCERT offers FSA verification for two scopes:
(a) Stand-alone farms and
(b) Farm Management Groups (which are collectives of farmers implementing the FSA together)
Aim of the Farm Sustainability Assessment
The objective of the Farm Sustainability Assessment (FSA) is to promote continuous improvement in sustainable farming by assessing, improving, and verifying social, environmental, and business performance through a structured and collaborative approach across the agricultural value chain.
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