Food & Agriculture
The food sector lies at the very heart of a global challenge: to feed an ever-growing population with healthy food by adopting a fair and environmentally sound production method capable of delivering sufficient quantities for all. We support you in tackling these challenges and helping to define the food sector of the future.
Act for a more sustainable
food sector
Integrate environmental protection into each stage of the production:
Improve soil fertility, preserve natural resources in quantity and quality, respect living ecosystems, promote the importance of co-products.
Ensure the development of socially responsible sectors:
Support farmers while enabling dignified working conditions, safeguarding the food autonomy of local populations, setting fair prices, promoting long-term trade relations, and reducing food waste.
Safeguard the sector to cope with the complexity of the supply chain:
Control health hazards and guarantee traceability and transparency in order to strengthen trust between you and your suppliers, customers and consumers.
Ecocert: committed to organic agriculture
As pioneers in organic certification, we have been contributing to the development of best agricultural and agribusiness practices at each stage of the supply chain--from producer to distributor--for more than 30 years.
Our expertise: benefiting you globally
Are you a farmer, food processor, exporter, importer, distributor, cooperative, restaurant owner, or an institution? Would you like to adopt new environmental and social practices?
Our experts help you establish and promote sustainable practices through training, consulting, and certification services. Thanks to our wide international network, our global supply chain moves from upstream to downstream.
As world leader in organic certification, the Ecocert trademark is a worldclass guarantee.
In order to mitigate risks and initiate a progressive strategy, Ecocert offers recognized standards in Organic farming and sustainable farming, Food safety and Quality, and Fair Trade or Corporate Social Responsibility. In your company our solutions may be implemented independently from one another or combined within the framework of a comprehensive responsible business approach.
Our certifications: assuring the integrity of your products
Are you looking for an agricultural certification?
Most requested certifications
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Organic agriculture USA
Fair Trade
Sustainable agriculture
Regenerative agriculture
Organic agriculture Europe
Corporate Social Responsibility
Quality and food safety
Corporate Social Responsibility
GLOBALG.A.P.
Organic Agriculture
Organic agriculture
Organic agriculture Canada
Organic agriculture South Korea
Organic agriculture Tunisia
Organic Agriculture Turkiye
Organic agriculture Brazil
Organic agriculture China
Organic agriculture Chile
Organic agriculture Mexico
Organic agriculture Peru
Organic agriculture Serbia
Organic agriculture India
Organic agriculture Colombia
Biodynamic farming
Organic agriculture
Sustainable fishing products in Chain of Custody
Sustainable aquaculture products in chain of custody
Quality and food safety
Quality and food safety
Responsible sourcing
Animal welfare
Sustainable agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable agriculture
GLOBALG.A.P. Chain of Custody
Our training program: sharing our expertise
Find more on our AGRICULTURE training program
Fair Trade: the fundamentals
Depending on your availability
Virtual classroom or e-learning
1h30
Organic Farming: the fundamentals
Depending on your availability
Virtual classroom or e-learning
1h30
Corporate Social Responsibility: from theoretical principles to practice
Depending on your availability
Virtual classroom or e-learning
2h
Our consulting services: expertise dedicated to your projects
We assist you in developing tailor-made solutions to meet your goals. See examples of our agriculture work below
Agri-food SME, France
Assistance in the definition and implementation of a CSR strategy
DISCOVER ECOCERT COUNTERPART
- Identification of challenges in line with the strategy of the general management
- Prioritization and consultation of stakeholders, goal setting and participatory development of the action plan
- Operational rollout of the CSR project
- Advice on the promotion of CSR through company labelling
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International Agri-food group
Market study in Asia and Middle East
DISCOVER ECOCERT COUNTERPART
- Analysis of the organic market in Asia and the Middle East
- Advice on a positioning strategy for new products
- Regulatory and technical support for defining the production conditions to be implemented in these markets.
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Central purchasing office
Benchmark of aquaculture and sustainable fishing label
DISCOVER ECOCERT COUNTERPART
- Analysis of sustainable fishing and aquaculture labels
- Participation in the development of a seafood purchasing strategy
- Creation of an internal private standard of good practices for the responsible purchase of fishery and aquaculture products.
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Sustainable Vanilla Initiative (SVI)
Creation of a traceability tool for the vanilla sector
DISCOVER ECOCERT COUNTERPART
- Support for the Sustainable Vanilla Initiative (SVI), an organisation that gathers the main players in the vanilla sector, in order to improve the traceability of the sector
- Field diagnosis and analysis of the challenges of the international vanilla market (product quality and traceability, price volatility, etc.)
- Preparation of technical specifications for traceability and support for the development of a digital traceability tool
- Field evaluation and testing of the tools developed.
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