Actions and means involved
Forty standards and food labels will be evaluated for their biodiversity criteria and a baseline report and recommendations for the improvement of the criteria will be published. Interested standards organizations and companies will be advised in the revision of their criteria.
With the help of a newly developed Biodiversity Performance Tool (BPT), the current situation and the further development for biodiversity protection on farms will be analyzed. Through a pilot project involving farms in cereal cultivation (Germany), tomato cultivation (Spain), olive production (Spain), in grasslands used for meat production (Portugal) and grasslands used for milk production and dairy products (France), the BPT will be tested. The final version of the BPT will be made available for certifiers, assessors and product managers. They will also be involved in a training program on biodiversity.
Finally, a monitoring-system and database tracking the biodiversity performance at farm level will be set up. Using this database, standard-setting organizations and companies will be able to monitor the positive effects and improve upon their criteria and measures.
A joint project: Sustainable Sourcing of Vegetables for Nestlé
More information:
Project Flyer (777 KB)
Webpages:
www.food-biodiversity.eu; www.business-biodiversity.eu