A presentation given at the Global Bamboo and Rattan Congress (BARC 2018), 25-27 June 2018.

1. Sustainability in the Bamboo Sector: Standards,
certification and other approaches
Andre de Freitas
Sustainable Agriculture Network - SAN

2. Sustainable Agriculture Network

3. Benefits of certification
• Stakeholder engagement around what means sustainability
• Enables committed buyers to reward best performing producers
• Effective mechanism for large producers to demonstrate best
practices
• Effective instrument for risk management
• Increasing body of evidence about impacts

4. Limitations
• Complexity
• Costs
• Effectiveness with smallholders
• Scalability
• Consumer demand

5. Necessity
Sustainability performance
Producers
Standard
Scalability
Certification

8. Other approaches
Dairy Sustainability Framework
• Align sustainability in the sector
• 11 sustainability criteria
• Sustainability as a journey
• Framework to support programs and demonstrate progress
• Governed by the dairy sector

9. Other approaches
World Cocoa Foundation – Cocoa Action
• Industry wide voluntary strategy on sustainability
• Major cocoa and chocolate companies
• Focus on productivity and community development
• Common M&E framework
• Scale and efficiency through collaboration

10. • One size fits all interventions
• Broad sustainability
• Farm/production unit
• Focus on compliance
• Assurance led
• Collection of reports, poor data
management
• Tailored interventions
• Centered on key issues
e.g. deforestation, human rights, climate,
water
• Territory / Jurisdiction / Landscape
• Focus on impacts
• Support led, with assurance
• Data driven, trends, increased efficiency
FuturePast / Present
Future of sustainability initiatives

11. Implications for the bamboo sector
• Clarity of Goals and Strategy are essential
• Certification can be a valuable tool
• Support existing scheme(s) or develop new one
• Other approaches
• Smallholders
• Core issues
• Support / Capacity development
• Territories / Jurisdictions