Jurisdictional Approach

10 de agosto de 2015

The Jurisdictional Approach (JA) breaks the organisational certification boundary and establishes a new certification model. In the JA a whole region can be certified, here the certification unit is the region, differing from the traditional certification, where the unit is organisation

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Apart from potential risk on credibility, which might be related to this model, in my opinion the JA may represent a great opportunity especially for sustainable crop specific roundtables.

In my opinion for the round table is a good momentum to use the JA to re establishes its own boundaries and rethink its business models. Just as an example, here in Brazil, more specifically in Sao Paulo State. Using the JA, four round tables together would be responsible to certify 90% of the state agricultural area, something around 16 million hectares (39 million acres).

So together, Bonsucro (sugarcane), RTRS (sustainable beef), RTRS (sustainable soy), FSC (sustainable forest) could do together something unimaginable doing alone.

What is your opinion on the JA?

Daniel Lobo is Food Engineer and Heath and Safety Engineer