This document discusses strategies for crop sourcing that minimize risks, including ensuring traceability in the supply chain. It notes that traceability is key to securing good agriculture supply chain management and minimizing possible financial losses. Challenges to traceability are described, such as not knowing which crops come from which farms, which could lead to partial or complete delivery waste if pesticide residues are too high. The document also discusses responsible sourcing strategies, controlling chemical use, grower support practices like seasonal contracts and financing, and questions whether spreadsheets are sufficient as a traceability tool.

1. Crop Sourcing Strategies that Minimize Risks

3. To create a transparent data-
powered certification ecosystem
for a safe food supply chain.
Project Mission

4. Project Profile
• Project Acronym: TheFSM
• Project title: The Food Safety Market
• Starting date: 01/02/2020
• Duration: 36 months
• Instrument: H2020-ICT-2019-2, ICT-13-2018-
2019: Supporting the emergence of data
markets and the data economy
• Contribution of the European Union: €4.8
million
The Food Safety Market:
an SME-powered industrial data platform to boost
the competitiveness of European food certification

5. Positioning of TheFSM

6. Consortium
11 PARTNERS FROM
9 EU COUNTRIES &
2 NON-EU COUNTRY INVOLVED (Egypt and Jordan)

7. 10 Pilots where food companies and their supply chain stakeholders will test, improve and drive the
adoption of the data platform and the linked software tools.
Pilots
10 countries:
• Greece
• Netherlands
• Italy
• Romania
• Croatia
• Poland
• Serbia
• Cyprus
• Egypt
• Jordan

8. AGRIVI’S role
For TheFSM project AGRIVI will be releasing a new
version of an existing farm management system
(AGRIVI 2.0) to serve producers that wish to exchange
certification-relevant data with their inspectors and
buyers, through simple, automated and robust data
exchange workflows that respect their data ownership
and rights.

9. Activities during the Project:
• Integrate, extend and pilot supplier data
sharing capabilities in AGRIVI
• Design, setup, involve and mobilise existing
clients that will participate in innovation and
piloting activities in Croatia, Serbia and
Poland and coordinate pilots for partners
pilot participants
• Contribute to 3rd party software integration,
data models and interoperability, data
population & localisation of data
AGRIVI’S role

10. Crop Sourcing Strategies
that Minimize Risks

11. Responsible Sourcing Strategies
Photo of responsible sourcing

12. Responsible sourcing strategy is a voluntary
commitment by food companies to take
into account social and environmental
considerations when managing their
relationships with suppliers.
Responsible
Sourcing Strategies

13. Responsible Sourcing Strategies

14. Controlling
Chemicals Use
PREVENTATIVE REACTIVE
Monitoring + Scouting + Records
Traceability
VS
Predefined program of
20 sprayings during the
season.

15. Traceability Challenges

16. Traceability Challenges
It's harvesting season and growers
are delivering crops to company facilities.
Example

17. The company knows exactly which crops
are delivered from which growers.
Crops marked with farm ID
Pesticide residues are too high
Partial delivery waste
Example 1
High Pesticide Residues - Farm 1
Good Crops - Farm 2
Farm 2
Farm 1

18. The company receives crops from multiple
farmers without having any identification
per farmer or harvested field.
Crops without farm ID
Pesticide residues are too high
Complete delivery loss
Example 2
High Pesticide Residues - Farm 1
COMPLETE DELIVERY LOSS

19. Securing traceability is the key to secure
a good agriculture supply chain management
and minimize possible financial losses.

20. Grower
Support Practices
• Seasonal contract
• Season financing
• Agronomy support
• Digital agriculture support
guaranteeing purchase of certain or all volumes
produced at predefined prices
companies that finance inputs for growers
companies that support growers with agronomic
recommendations to make better decisions
companies that bring digital agriculture platforms to
growers for better and real-time decision making,
management of inputs/labor/machinery, knowledge
dissemination and to secure traceability across the
entire agriculture supply chain

21. Spreadsheet –
a Traceability Tool?

22. Thank you.