GLOBALG.A.P. gains ISEAL community member status
GLOBALG.A.P. was recently approved as an ISEAL community member following a months-long qualification process.
ISEAL supports ambitious sustainability systems to tackle pressing global challenges. With its growing global network and focus on credible practices, ISEAL drives impact and makes markets a force for good, according to a news release.
“GLOBALG.A.P. is proud to have achieved ISEAL Community Member status, and to have gained an important partner in ISEAL,” Kristian Moeller, managing director for GLOBALG.A.P., said in the release. “This is a further step on our important mission towards broader sustainability recognition. We are delighted that our long-standing commitment to sustainability is bearing fruit.”
GLOBALG.A.P. anticipates collaborating with other well-known ISEAL community members and their sustainability systems — from industries as diverse as aluminum, golf, cotton, tourism and fishing — to cope with the large-scale environmental problems, according to the release.
“As a new ISEAL Community Member, we look forward to continuously improving our system and further enhancing our solutions by participating in ISEAL’s learning, collaboration, and innovation activities,” Moeller said in the release.
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“I would like to congratulate GLOBALG.A.P. on becoming an ISEAL Community Member,” Karin Kreider, executive director of ISEAL, said in the release. “This exciting step reflects GLOBALG.A.P.’s commitment to ongoing improvement and deepening their credible practices as they work to improve food safety on farms across the globe, while safeguarding the welfare of farming communities and their surrounding environments.”
GLOBALG.A.P.’s trusted farm assurance solutions have included a major sustainability component since they were first developed over 25 years ago. The company will now lend valuable support to the global sustainability efforts of fellow ISEAL community member systems by contributing decisive input and know-how gained from those decades of experience in sustainability, according to the release.
Becoming an ISEAL community member further highlights GLOBALG.A.P.’s dedication to sustainability and signals GLOBALG.A.P.’s commitment to continuous improvement through the special insights, support and collaboration opportunities available to ISEAL community members, the release said.
To qualify as an ISEAL community member, GLOBALG.A.P. conducted a self-assessed gap analysis against the desired outcomes of the ISEAL standard-setting, assurance and impacts codes and drafted an improvement plan defining objectives and areas that need special attention. GLOBALG.A.P. is also developing a monitoring and evaluation system, which will play an important role as GLOBALG.A.P. takes the next steps toward achieving ISEAL Code Compliant status, according to the release.
GLOBALG.A.P. expects to deliver additional value to stakeholders by improving the system’s effectiveness with ISEAL’s guidance, the release said. Seeking and achieving ISEAL community member status also lends value to GLOBALG.A.P.’s assurance products — including the consumer-facing GGN label — by adding further tangible evidence of GLOBALG.A.P.’s ongoing investment in the development of effective sustainability measures, according to the release.
