GlobalG.A.P. approved as ISEAL Community Member

GlobalG.A.P. was recently approved as an ISEAL Community Member follow a months - long reservation process .

ISEAL patronage challenging sustainability organisation to undertake the world ’s most pressing challenge . With its growing global mesh and focus on credible practice , ISEAL drives impact and makes markets a force for good . " GlobalG.A.P. is proud to have accomplish ISEAL Community Member status and to have gained an significant partner in ISEAL , " said Dr. Kristian Moeller , Managing Director at GlobalG.A.P. " This is a further step on our important mission towards broader sustainability acknowledgment . We are delighted that our long - standing commitment to sustainability is bearing fruit . "

GlobalG.A.P. will be collaborating with other well - live ISEAL Community Members and their sustainability systems from industries as divers as Al , golf game , cotton , tourism , and angle to cope with the biggest environmental trouble . " As a new ISEAL Community Member , we look forward to continuously improving our system and further enhancing our solutions by participating in ISEAL ’s learning , coaction , and foundation activities , " said Dr. Moeller .

" I would like to congratulate GlobalG.A.P. on becoming an ISEAL Community Member , " said Karin Kreider , Executive Director of ISEAL . " This exciting dance step reflects GlobalG.A.P. ’s commitment to ongoing melioration and deepening their credible practices as they work to better food safety on farm across the globe while safeguard the welfare of farming residential area and their besiege surround . “GlobalG.A.P. ’s trusted farm confidence solutions have let in a major sustainability constituent since they were first developed over 25 years ago . The companionship will now lend valuable support to the ball-shaped sustainability efforts of fellow ISEAL Community Member systems by contributing decisive input and know - how gain from those decade of experience in sustainability . Becoming an ISEAL Community Member further highlights GlobalG.A.P. ’s loyalty to sustainability and signals GlobalG.A.P. ’s dedication to continuous improvement through the special sixth sense , support , and quislingism opportunities available to ISEAL Community Members .

To qualify as an ISEAL Community Member , GlobalG.A.P. take a self - value gap depth psychology against the desired termination of the ISEAL Standard - Setting , Assurance , and Impacts Codes and drafted an improvement plan defining objectives and area that demand special attention . GlobalG.A.P. is also developing a monitoring and evaluation arrangement , which will play an important function as GlobalG.A.P. engage the next steps toward achieving ISEAL Code Compliant status . This new rank closely survey the publication of version 6 of GlobalG.A.P. ’s flagship Integrated Farm Assurance ( IFA ) criterion . IFA v6 gives environmental sustainability greater visibleness by encouraging the uninterrupted improvement of sustainability practices among participate producers and by adding more sustainability - oriented principles and criteria to the standard . The intellectual nourishment safety and aquaculture facet of IFA v6 have already achieved GFSI ( Global Food Safety Initiative ) and GSSI ( Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative ) recognition , respectively . GlobalG.A.P. is the first GFSI- and GSSI - recognize farm assurance scheme in the diligence to accomplish ISEAL Community Member status . " We welcome GlobalG.A.P. ’s allegiance to ISEAL ’s challenging requirements as a global industry standard . It underlines the elbow grease to continuously build up also in the field of sustainability as a make out system - for the major environmental and societal challenges in global supply chains , and this is an of import step , " emphasizes Eugenio Guidoccio , Member of the Executive Board , REWE Group .

GlobalG.A.P. expects to deliver additional value to stakeholder by amend the scheme ’s effectiveness with ISEAL ’s guidance . Seeking and achieving ISEAL Community Member status also lends note value to GlobalG.A.P. ’s assurance product – including the consumer - face up GGN recording label – by sum further tangible evidence of GlobalG.A.P. ’s ongoing investment in the developing of in force sustainability measures .

For more information : Roberta AndersonGlobalG.A.P. North Americaglobalgap.org