Welcome to the Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops
The Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops (SISC) is a multi-stakeholder initiative dedicated to developing tools for measuring sustainable performance across specialty crop (all fruit, nut and vegetable) supply chains. SISC offers a suite of outcomes-focused metrics enabling operators to benchmark, compare, and communicate their own performance.
Get Involved
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Announcements
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Join SISC on USFRA Commodity Roundtable Webinar: April 20, 2023 9-10 am PT.
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Watch a recorded webinar: SISC + THESIS: Collecting and Reporting Performance Metrics for Fruit, Nut production
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Webinar on ways to reduce On Farm Food Loss
Listen to recording here - with WWF, WRI, SISC and several U.S. growers along with food loss and waste experts on the practical steps growers and buyers can take together to help reduce on-farm loss.
Join SISC
Growers, grower groups, brands, buyers, processors and environmental NGO’s are welcome to join the SISC Coordinating Council (the governing body of SISC).
For more information on current members of the CC see our Current Participants page. For more information on joining the CC, please contact us.
Participate in Projects Using the Metrics
SISC supports a community of growers, grower groups, industry organizations and brands/buyers who collaborate to use performance metrics within specialty crop supply chains.
These collaborations innovate solutions that lead to real natural resource improvements on the ground. They also create compelling success stories that can be backed up with real data.
"These metrics can provide a whole supply chain perspective to sustainability programs. The outcomes are valuable for every buyer who is interested in working with their supply chains to reduce their footprint and create real natural resource management improvements on the ground."
Jason Dye, Senior Manager, Category Development at Foodbuy
We are a fiscally sponsered project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE), a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization dedicated to empowering, encouraging, and catalyzing projects so that we can collaborate and facilitate progressive change in areas of social and environmental justice.
For more information go to saveourplanet.org.