Global Nature Fund | Biodiversity protection in the food industry

We preserve biodiversity. We are strengthening the guidelines for biodiversity protection in companies in the food industry. This means that nature is better protected along the supply chain.

Labels and standards do not take all important nature conservation requirements into account. As a result, important criteria for the conservation of biodiversity are not taken into account.

In this project, we are developing recommendations for incorporating important criteria into existing standards and labels. We are developing a “Biodiversity Performance Tool” and applying it on 50 pilot farms. This tool records the status and potential for biodiversity on farms.

Project area

Goals

Monitoring system

Develop a universal monitoring system to investigate and evaluate the effects on biodiversity.

Protection

Improve the protection of biodiversity by integrating important criteria into existing standards and requirements for suppliers.

Improvement

Improvement of biodiversity protection on certified farms through application of the Biodiversity Performance Tool.

Further training

Organize training courses for consultants, auditors, certified companies, quality and product managers.

Impacts

40

Standards and companies improve their biodiversity efforts by adopting at least one third of the recommendations.

650

Dissemination of the general recommendations to 100 organizations, 50 companies with their own supplier specifications and 500 industry associations, environmental organizations and authorities in Germany and Europe.