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The Better Sugarcane Initiative – Impacts and Benefits on the Global Sugarcane Industry
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5th to 8th of December 2006, IAPSIT Symposium, Guiling, P R China
The Better Sugarcane Initiative – The Better Sugarcane Initiative – Impacts and Benefits on the Global Impacts and Benefits on the Global
Sugarcane IndustrySugarcane Industry
The Better Sugarcane Initiative – The Better Sugarcane Initiative – Impacts and Benefits on the Global Impacts and Benefits on the Global
Sugarcane IndustrySugarcane Industry
R Quirk, H Morar, R Perkins,R Quirk, H Morar, R Perkins,
G Kingston, W BurnquistG Kingston, W Burnquist
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Why Sugarcane
Better Sugarcane or Better Sugar? The crop has the impact not the products
Why the focus on Cane? – cane is bigger than beet– beet faced uncertainty during BSI set-
up– concentrate resources for higher
impact
Best or Better Management?Constant improvement makes what is now the best obsolete in the future
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History of BSI
• June 2005 – better sugar: better business meeting agreed key impacts
• July 2005 to January 2006 – aims and objectives agreed by e-mail
• January 2006 – Interim Steering Group agreed structure and governance
• Jan 2006 to present - Steering Group develops the initiative
• Communication brief developed and circulated in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese
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Other Commodity Round Tables
• Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)• Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)• Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
(www.rspo.org)• Round Table on Responsible Soy• Better Cotton Initiative• Shrimp and Salmon aquaculture
initiatives
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What BSI will do
• Reduce, measurably, the most significant social and environment impacts
• Identify both on-farm and regional impacts
• Focus on 5-10 biggest impacts, not laundry lists
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What BSI will do
• Identify a range of better management practices (BMPs) for different scale producers
• Analyze the economics of BMPs - most pay for themselves in 2-3 years• Multi-stakeholder, transparent process
to agree:• The most significant impacts • Acceptable, measurable goals
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Preparation and Planting – Research
– Minimum Till– Chemical weed control– Direct drilled break crops– Mounded rows– Controlled traffic– Wider multiple rows– Direct drilled, mechanical cane planting
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Growing the Plant Crop – Research
– Zero Till– Inter Row chemical weed control– Split stool fertilizer application
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Ratooning – Research
– Inter row chemical weed control– Split stool fertilizer application
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BSI structure
Steering CommitteeDrives process• 5 members (+4 open)• Chairman
Multi-stakeholder forumFeedback, final sign-off on stds • <100 institutions & experts• Annual regional meetings
Cane production
Cane processing + co-products
Social / community
Technical working groups Propose draft standards• Paid leader + seconder• Consult growing regions
SecretariatDay-to-day running• Paid Co-ordinator• 0.5 FTE Technical help
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BSI Steering Committee
• Committee members on 24 Nov 2006– Robert Quirk, canegrower (chairman)– Jason Clay, environment NGO – Olivier Geneviève, social NGO– Hari Morar, miller/refiner– Harry Ott, soft drinks company
• Seeking ACP, Brazilian, biofuel and banker representatives on Steering Committee and others
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Voluntary standards
BSI communication 17 February 2006:
“Participants reconfirmed that
the social and environmental standards that are eventually adopted
will be voluntary”
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Developing and using standards
• The private sector needs to be transparently engaged in defining goals (eg. NSW Sugar’s Self Regulation)
• Adoption of goals by industry should preclude the necessity of Government intervention and regulation
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Consultation
BSI:
• agrees that wide consultation and participatory approach are needed
• will work with all who share its aims and objectives
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Social standards
BSI:• Agrees that social goals will not be easy
to set
• Will remain aware of ILO processes
• Will set up a Social and Community Technical Working Group (TWG)
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Goals & Implementation
• All BSI members will decide on achievable goals
• Goals achieved by BMPs can be used as screens for investors, buyers or insurers to make commodity production more sustainable
• The market will decide uptake, not BSI.
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Next steps
• www.bettersugarcane.org• BSI meeting in January 2007 in London
– 3-4 places available for potential Steering Committee members
• Recruit Steering and other members • Raise funds and in-kind contributions• Consult on Technical Working Groups• Participate in ISSCT 2007
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And over time…
• Set up BSI as an independent organisation
• Consult iteratively on standards
• Propose draft standards in 2008
• Could be adopted by biofuels buyers