Trends in European Agri-food standards

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Trends in European Agri-food standards

• Steve Homer

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Campaigns media
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Lifecycle of compliance drivers
Drivers develop faster than most standards and
decay over time
Drivers
Niche Response
Multi stakeholder voluntary standards consumer
labels emerge
Farmers and growers do not have enough time to
finish one before the next one emerges !
Model developed with David Richardson NSF-CMi
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Lifecycle of compliance drivers
Drivers develop faster than most standards and
decay over time
Drivers
Niche Response
Public Response
Industry Response
Model developed with David Richardson NSF-CMi
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Lifecycle of compliance drivers
Drivers develop faster than most standards and
decay over time
Drivers
Niche Response
Public Response
Industry Response
Legal Compliance SPS
Market Compliance Private Standard
Industry Leader Niche Standard
Corporate Response
Model developed with David Richardson NSF-CMi
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The combination private standard The future ?

• Environmental and Pesticides
• Our unique approach with 'Nurture' offers us the
  fantastic opportunity to pioneer standards around
  the use of pesticides, reducing energy usage and
  allows us to break new ground improving and
  enhancing the local environment.
• Social and Ethical
• Working in partnership with the ETI we ensure our
  suppliers are annually risk assessed on ethical
  standards and worker welfare to ensure that all
  standards are achieved. Our dedicated technical
  team also visit suppliers to ensure continuous
  conformance. This is evaluated and monitored
  using SEDEX, the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange.

How does Nurture work? Each grower is audited on
an annual basis to ensure they meet the required
high standard Tesco has set. No matter where in
the world we source our fruit and vegetables from
and who we work in partnership with we use one
standard this is Nurture.
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MS Plan A

• Field to fork
• Climate Change
• Waste
• Sustainability
• Fair Partner
• Health
• Partnership with Oxfam

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Thank You

• Steve Homer