Saint Louis Sucre - Plateforme SAI
02/02/2018
Depuis 2016, les planteurs fournisseurs de Saint Louis Sucre sont certifiés REDcert, leur conférant le niveau argent de la plateforme SAI (Sustainable Agriculture Initiative). Cet organisme, fondé par des acteurs majeurs de l’agroalimentaire (production et distribution) et dont le groupe Südzucker est membre, permet aux entreprises agroalimentaires utilisatrices de sucre de s’assurer que celui-ci est élaboré à partir de betteraves produites durablement. Saint Louis Sucre déploie un vaste dispositif d’accompagnement de ses planteurs, et de formation de ses équipes internes à cette certification, qui fait l’objet d’un audit annuel.
Un projet sur le sucre de bettrave est en cours et accessible aux non adhérents (Mail de contact : nbetts@saiplatform.org) :
"SAI Platform launched the Farm Sustainability Assessment (FSA) to support the production of sustainable agricultural raw materials worldwide, and has partnered with the United Nation’s International Trading Centre (ITC) to offer a practical solution for farmers and other stakeholders to benchmark, assess and communicate their sustainability practices along the supply chain.
Many of SAI Platform’s members agreed to work together to mainstream sustainability in their agricultural supply chain by using FSA. As per the request of sugar beet processors, Coca-Cola, Heineken, and Unilever have decided to use FSA for sugar beet, directly with farmers/through suppliers and/or as a benchmarking reference, with a current focus on European sugar beet.
Goals
The purpose of this project and the FSA is to increase the consistency in communication within the food and beverage supply chains about sustainability expectations and to harmonize sustainability definitions, reduce assessment and assurance duplication at farm level and supply base level and promote continuous improvement in the sustainable production of agricultural resources.
Ongoing activities and achievements to date
SAI Platform approached suppliers of beet sugar to join the project, in order to work together to develop a roll out plan for FSA with their farmer supply base. The aim is to use FSA to identify sustainability gaps, to support farmers in addressing these gaps and thereby becoming more sustainable, economically, socially and environmentally.
SAI Platform hosted a well-attended workshop in October 2014 in Brussels for participating SAI Platform members and other sugar suppliers, with the purpose to discuss possible implementation methodologies and address questions and concerns.
SAI Platform is providing support to companies carrying out benchmarking work as well as discussions with their farmers regarding the FSA roll out. SAI Platform hosted also a second workshop in Spring 2015, to further support the roll out of FSA in the European sugar beet supply chain."
Plus généralement, les membres définissent des référentiels communs sur la durabilité des cultures et de l’élevage. L’objectif de cette démarche est de garantir que les matières premières (céréales, sucres, fruits, légumes, viande, lait,…) sont produites en respectant au mieux :
- l’environnement : eau, air, sol ;
- l’aspect social : pour les agriculteurs et leurs employés ;
- la biodiversité et,
- le bien-être animal.
Lien vers la plateforme ici (en anglais)