sustainable aquaculture: asc, viv and idh november 24th, 2009

Sustainable Aquaculture:

ASC, VIV and IDH

November 24th, 2009

Agenda• IDH

• Short overview

• Example of Improvement Programs:• Tea• Cocoa• Natural Stones

• ASC and the IDH aquaculture program• ASC update• IDH Supply chain improvement programmes

• Pangasius• Shrimps and Tilapia

IDH, a short overview The organisation

• Founded in 2008 as multi stakeholder platform by Dutch government ( Ministries: Development Cooperation, Economic affairs, Agriculture, Environment)

• Mission: Accelerating & upscaling sustainable trade in mainstream markets

• Contribution to Millennium goals: • MDG1 : Fighting poverty• MDG 7 : Sustainable environment• MDG 8 : Fair Trade

• 5 year funding, 50 M€

• Sector improvement programmes

IDH, a short overview The vision

• Re-organizing international supply chains in terms of people, planet and profit is vital for the future of West-European industry.

• Sustainable sourcing as an integrated business model

• Achieve sustainable economic growth in developing countries by combining private and public investments

IDH, a short overview Key ingredients of IDH • Facilitating acceleration and cooperation

• Public equity sustainability fund

• High ambition: (mainstream) market transformation

• Coalitions of the Willing

• Pre-competitive cooperation

• Endorsed by business, unions and NGOs

• Endorsed by government

IDH, a short overview Sectors

IDH, a short overview The role of IDH in sector programmes • Joining forces

Forging of effective consortia

• Accelerating & Up-scaling Process-facilitation Guiding the implementation of high impact sector programmes Providing match-funding & fund raising Quality- and progress control Facilitation of intra- and intersectoral learning

IDH, a short overview Learning and Innovation

• Practical learning programmes: enable front runners to move faster support to overcome thresholds

• Inter-sector learning & intra-sector learning

• Impact oriented: fully embedded in programmes

Agenda• IDH

• Short overview• Example of Improvement Programs:

• Tea• Cocoa• Natural Stones

• ASC and IDH Aquaculture Program• ASC Update• IDH Improvement programs

Tea Improvement Program

Tea Improvement Program Programme goals for 2011

Program goals:22% of worldwide tea export certified sustainable andapproximately 2% of the Indian tea market certified sustainableUp to 20% increase in income for 310,000 small farmers150,000 hectares of sustainable land use6 cooperating companies firmly commit to buy certified tea60.000MT of certified tea

Countries: India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Sri Lanka, Vietnam

Budget: 9 million

IDH Cocoa Improvement Program

The IDH Cocoa Program• Targets (2013):

– 20% income increase and productivity increase amongst 50k producers; 64k tons certified cocoa;

• Partners: – 2 largest chocolate companies (Mars ; Nestle), largest trader (Cargill), major

retailers (Ahold, IKEA), major NGOs (Solidaridad, Oxfam, WWF) and UTZ Certified.• Focus:

– Improve producer practices (Tech Assistance, tools & standards development)– Improve traceability (Chain of Custody, IT system, training)– Improve market access (alliances, awareness raising, business development)– Increase national/producer organization capacity

• Budget: – 9.7 M euro (of which IDH funds 3.6 M)

Natural Stone Improvement Program Programme goals for 2011

Program goals:• A European label for sustainable produced natural stone• Four importers are implementing sustainability criteria with their suppliers in China and India• Five Dutch municipalities switch to purchasing sustainable natural stone

Countries: Belgium, China, India, the Netherlands

Budget: 0,6 million

Agenda• IDH

• Short overview• Improvement programs:


• ASC and IDH Aquaculture programs• ASC Update• IDH Improvement programs

IDH Aquaculture Program

• A- Support the development of ASC

• B- Improvement programmes in 3 species

• C- Intra- and intersectoral learning

IDH Aquaculture Program

Program goals Aquaculture: Succesfull market introduction ASC label Certification 15% EU imports of tilapia, shrimps & pangasus Support small producers & processors in Southeast Asia

Countries: Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam

Budget: tbd

Agenda• IDH




Aquaculture Stewardship Council


“Creating Change on the Water”

Co-founders


Vision and mission

ASC’s vision is to transform aquaculture towards environmental and social sustainability using efficient market mechanisms which create value accross the whole value chain.

ASC’s mission is to offer a credible consumer label that assures compliance with multi-stakeholder derived standards for environmentally and socially sustainable aquaculture and by increasing demand for and securing a supply of ASC certified products transform the market to a sustainable basis in an economically efficient way.

The ASC is expected to be in full operation by mid 2011.


More than a standards holding body, it is a global transformation system for aquaculture:

Credible – standards are ISEAL compliant, multi stakeholder, open and transparent, science based performance metrics

Effective – minimizes the environmental and social footprint of commercial aquaculture by addressing key impacts

Adds value – connects the farm to the marketplace by promoting sustainable practices through a consumer eco-label


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It will take up to 24 months to develop the independent ASC.


ASC

Comms

Funding

Areas of focus


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Governance Structure in discussion


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The ASC will offer farm level annual certification.

The ASC will use accredited third-party Certification Bodies (CB) that are ISO 65 compliant.

The ASC will initially offer certification for 12 aquaculture commodity species, which are: salmon, shrimp, pangasius, tilapia, freshwater trout, oysters, mussels, clams, scallops, abalone, cobia, and seriola.

The ASC standards will focus on minimizing environmental and social impacts.

The ASC will “partner” with accredited organizations that offer food safety standards and traceability. Thus offering “one-stop-shopping” for certification.

Accreditation/certification


Farm=

“unit of certification”

Aquaculture Dialogues

=“standard creation process”

Aquaculture Stewardship

Council =

“standard holding body”

Certification Bodies

=“3rd party ISO 65

accredited”

the process incorporates firewalls to maintain independence and integrity

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• Building Capacity

• Creating Market Demand

Market analysisTraceability


ASC

Improvement ProgrammePartnerships already started

Retail Outreach & Partnerships already started

Building on Existing Organisational Capacity

• Building Capacity

• Creating Market Demand

Building Business Plan


ASC

Improvement ProgrammePartnerships already started

Retail Outreach & Partnerships already started

Building on Existing Organisational Capacity


WWF has engaged with GlobalG.A.P. as an interim step to offer the Aquaculture Dialogue standards as environmental/social modules to “add-on” to current certification schemes. Thereby, making the standards available as they are finalized.

WWF is encouraging retailers to communicate with their suppliers to : begin the GlobalGap certification process begin gap analyses of current performance against

Aquaculture Dialogues.

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Agenda• IDH




Concrete support for improvements at farm level

• IDH to support value chains initiatives that aim to improve production and tackle main social and environmental impacts at farmer level.

• Focus on Tilapia, Pangasius and Shrimps: Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India a.o..

• Goal: 15% of export market certified by 2015 (mainstream volumes), 30% in 2020

• Multi stakeholder consortia, with private sector in the lead.

• IDH to cooperate with GTZ and other institutions, national and local gov, ngo’s.

Producer supportFarm level– Training and capacity building – Research and monitoring– Org and clustering small scale producers – Involvement of feed and input manufactures

Meso– Dialogue local community, gvt and civil

society– Training facilities: farmer field schools,

lighthouse models, etc

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Producer support (cont)

Macro (enabling environment)– National interpretations of standards– Acces to finance– Involve domestic markets– Auditors capacity building (structure)– National research programmes– Political and legal systems

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MCD a.o.

OXFAM

Example: Stakeholder cooperation in Vietnam

GAA

GlobalGap

ASC

WUR

WWFIDH

GTZ-VN

Consumers

Shared market

METRO

ANOVA

ProcessorProcessor Processor

Farm Farm

feed

Smallholders

Producer group

Hatcheries/nurseries

SGS

C.U.

An Giang Univ

RIA2

Can Tho Univ

WWF-VN

PPP

GTZ

Naviqaved a.o.

DARD

MARD

Standards

Research

Certifiers

Smallholders

Government

Retail

Traders

Ngo’s

Allfish

Overall Goals Vietnam: 15.000 – 20.000 farmers – 300 processors - export to 120 countries. Europe: 230.000 MT (35% of total)

Germany 45.000MT; Netherlands 30.000 MT (32% of Europe).

Goal: 75.000-100.000 MT certified in 2015.

Sector: Taking joint responsibility: from farm to retail. Social, environmental and economic sustainability to secure future production in

Vietnam as well as securing the sourcing to markets in Europe. Food safety and traceability as acces to market Support of government, civil society and research institutions. Vietnam wishes to improve the sector.

The present pilot improvement programme > first 15.000 MT certified Pangasius (safe, and environmental and social sustainable)

Several consortia needed in near future (in different markets)

Pilot program goals I

improve the social, environmental and economic sustainability of the value chain;

increase the sustainability of rural livelihoods; ensure consistent supply of sustainable pond farmed pangasius

products in the market; and create a solid basis for the establishment of an internationally

accepted certification scheme (Aquaculture Stewardship Council - ASC) that would utilize the strengths of existing social, environmental and food safety standards and practices.

Pangasius pilot program II

• Outcomes:– Model for upscaling– 15.000 MT to be GlobalGap and PAD/ASC cert– 7500 beneficiaries– Supporting research:

• Cost benefit analysis• Gap analysis of supply chain partners• Reveiw of relevant laws etc.

– Active engagement of Gvt– Certification of feed, hatchery and nursery supplies– Programmes for processors, large farms and small holders

New programs

To be developed in 2010

• Shrimps• Tilapia

Thank you. Be in touch!

www.worldwildlife.org/aquadialogues

www.ascworldwide.org

(From December, 2009)

www.duurzamehandel.org

http://www.worldwildlife.org/aquadialogues

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sustainable aquaculture: asc, viv and idh november 24th, 2009

Documents

role of idh

tea improvement program

idh cocoa program targets

government slide

short overview learning

tilapia slide

sector improvement programmes

intersectoral learning