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 performance of regenerative and sustainable practices 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.

Find out more

Get Involved

Heading 5

Our Services

About SISC

What makes SISC unique? SISC is a coaltion of producers, buyers, and public interest groups who are collaborating to develop and share metrics that all parties agree are the most important indicators of stewardship.

+ Learn More

About SISC Metrics

SISC offers a suite of Working Metrics –

Plus lots of supporting materials:

Read SISC Case Studies: Success Stories Backed Up with Real Data

+ Learn More About Metrics

+ SISC Case Studies

Announcements

In partnership with the Soil Health Institute, SISC alligns with two new Soil Health Metrics, find out more ...

Come Join SISC in person at the IFPA Show in Anaheim, October 19-21 - We have two in person meetings - come join us!

Learn about the New SISC Calculator now available on Croptrak!

Watch July 2023 webinar: Tier 1 Suppliers: Collecting and Reporting Performance Metrics for Fruit, Nut production

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.

+ Learn More

"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.

Contact