Our CSR solutions for the agri-food industry
To implement a CSR or sustainability strategy that aligns with the SDGs or the CSRD, food manufacturers need to be familiar with best practices in this area and demonstrate that they are applying them.
Your needs
Do you work in the food industry in a role that deals with CSR and sustainability issues? We provide you with access to standards, market intelligence solutions, training, and audit-based recognition.
Comply with ISO 26030
A step-by-step guide to implementing a comprehensive CSR strategy.
Apply for a certification inspired by Engagé RSE
To highlight your CSR efforts with a logo specific to your industry.
Expanding anaerobic digestion
The Qualimétha certification ensures the reliability of your biogas plant project.
Reducing food waste
A certification program for industry stakeholders committed to addressing the problem of overflowing trash bins.
AFNOR helps you define your needs
Why adopt a CSR approach?
Globalization, animal diseases, widespread changes, CO2 emissions… The agri-food sector certainly has a role to play in building a more sustainable world, from farm to fork. As a true international standard for sustainable development and CSR, the voluntary ISO 26000 standard sets out guidelines for adopting an approach that combines sustainable development with overall performance.
The agri-food sector even has its own ISO 26000 standard, ISO/TS 26030, published in February 2020. The document adopts the 7-question framework specific to ISO 26000, always in alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): organizational governance, human rights, labor practices and working conditions, environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and local communities and development.
A CSR Label for Bayonne Ham
Based on this, the Bayonne Ham Consortium—which brings together the entire industry chain (breeders, producers, slaughterers, manufacturers, and curing specialists)—has developed its own CSR label. Since all these professions are interdependent, a unified response was needed to address environmental and societal challenges… as well as consumer expectations. The framework lists numerous best practices to follow: sourcing from local supply chains, a ban on antibiotics, cameras in slaughterhouses… All of which ensure the objectivity—and thus the robustness—of the approach for increasingly demanding customers.
Source of figures: UN, AFNOR
