Welcome to the Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops
The Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops (SISC) is a multi-stakeholder collaboration that develops tools to measure the performance of regenerative and sustainable practices across specialty crop supply chains, including fruits, vegetables, and nuts.
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SISC is helping turn sustainability into business value for growers by aligning supply chain partners around a common framework, establishing shared metrics, and strengthening the voice of the specialty crop industry.
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SISC’s outcome-based metrics enable growers and operators to benchmark, compare, and communicate their sustainability performance. At the same time, they provide buyers with a consistent set of measures to track and report progress over time.
Get Involved
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About SISC Metrics
SISC offers a suite of Working Metrics –
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Plus lots of supporting materials:
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Read SISC Case Studies: Success Stories Backed Up with Real Data
Learn about how SISC defines regenerative ag for specialty crops...
Announcements
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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.
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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.
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For more information go to saveourplanet.org.