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.

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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.

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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

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+ SISC Case Studies

Announcements

SISC Webinar: Sustainability Metrics for Ag: New Online Stewardship Calculator Wed, Oct 21st,11 am PDT

Registration Now Open: 2020 Sustainable Agriculture Summit, Nov 18—19.

Now Available: Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops Calculator on SupplyShift

New SISC Food Loss Metric Now Finalized

Sept, 2019: New SISC Calculator Featured on US Farmers and Ranchers Alliance Podcast

Sept, 2019: Sustainability in Action: Sept 26 in Salinas, CA.

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.

"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

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.

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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.