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The Accord was prompted by the high-profile "dirty dairying" campaign by Fish and Game New Zealand which highlighted water pollution of lakes, rivers and streams due to the intensification of dairy farming in parts of New Zealand. [1] In 2014 the Dairying and Clean Streams Accord was succeeded by the Sustainable Dairying: Water Accord. [2]
Key activities of the organisation include influencing government policy on sustainable agriculture; advocacy for true cost accounting; development of a common international framework [2] and metric for measuring on-farm sustainability; campaigning for the re-localisation of supply chains, including small abattoirs; [3] and linking healthy ...
The association was founded in 1995 by a merger of different dairy associations with ASSILEC, [1] [2] the predecessor organisation of the EDA. Its founding members were the national dairy associations of ASSILEC. Since its foundation, the development of the EDA has followed the further enlargement of the European Union and the deepening of EU ...
Importantly, the North American dairy sector, where the U.S. is the primary milk producer, reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity (emissions per gallon of milk produced) by 2.2% per year ...
Coller FAIRR Protein Producer Index is a benchmarking instrument that evaluates 60 publicly traded companies in the aquaculture, dairy and meat sectors across ten key social, environmental, and governance areas in alignment with the SDGs to provide financial institutions with analytics and data insights in the protein industry.
The livestock sector also includes wool, egg and dairy production, the livestock used for tillage, and fish farming. Animal agriculture is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions . Cows, sheep, and other ruminants digest their food by enteric fermentation , and their burps are the main source of methane emissions from land use ...
Sustainable food systems have been argued to be central to many [1] or all [2] 17 Sustainable Development Goals. [3] Moving to sustainable food systems, including via shifting consumption to sustainable diets, is an important component of addressing the causes of climate change and adapting to it.
GRI's framework for sustainability reporting helps companies identify, gather, and report this information in a clear and comparable manner. Developed by the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB), the GRI Standards are the first global standards for sustainability reporting and are a free public good. [9]