Related initiatives
LIFE Food & Biodiversity
https://www.business-biodiversity.eu/en/life-food-biodiversity
“Biodiversity in food industry standards and labels” is an EU-wide project of Global Nature Fund, Agentur AUF!, Lake Constance Foundation, Fundación Global Nature (Spain), Solagro, agence good (France) and Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal). Launched in 2016, the initiative is aimed at standards and labels for the food industry and companies with their own requirements for producers and suppliers.
The following initiative emerged specifically from the project:
Roundtable “Biodiversity Performance in the Food Sector”
https://www.business-biodiversity.eu/en/roundtable-on-biodiversity
The aim of the initiative is to raise awareness for the protection of biodiversity in the food industry. The aim is to reach agreement on a basic set of criteria for the protection of biodiversity, which will be incorporated into existing standards and supplier specifications in the food industry.
The focal points of the industry initiative are:
- Implementation and continuous development of the basic set of biodiversity criteria in the food industry.
- Dissemination and further development of further education modules on biodiversity for representatives of the food industry.
- Expansion of the monitoring system and publication of the monitoring results on biodiversity in regular reports.
- Information and awareness raising for employees and consumers.
In Germany, the official launch of the initiative “Biodiversity in the Food Industry” is planned for the second half of 2020. An initiative circle with representatives from standards, food companies, agriculture, NGOs and scientific institutions is currently preparing the foundation of the initiative.
Biodiversity Partnership Mesoamérica (BPM)
https://www.bpmesoamerica.org/
BPM is an B&B Initiative for companies in Central American countries committed to improve their biodiversity performance. The platform was created in 2012 with the support of the German Ministry for Development.
BPM offers background information and trends, training, positive examples and practical exchange for managers of companies aware of the importance of biodiversity as our basis for life and economic activities. Numerous projects are carried out with the support of the German Development Agency GIZ.
The outputs can be found for download here: https://www.delcampoalplato.com/de/publikationen/projekt-publikationen/
Action Alliance for Sustainable Banana (ABNB)
https://www.bananenbuendnis.org/en/
The German Action Alliance for Sustainable Bananas is a dialogue and action forum. It brings together representatives from trade, retail, and politics as well as from consumer protection, civil society, and trade unions.
Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chain Initiative (INA)
World Banana Forum (WBF)
