regenagri launches significant standard update

regenagri released two significant updates to its regenerative agriculture standard on 8 January 2024, to include elevated contextualised assessment and labour criteria.

Aiming to secure the health of the land and the wealth of those who live on it, regenagri has tripled in growth over the last year and now more than one million hectares of land world-wide is under the regenagri programme.

With continuous improvement being a core programme objective, Version 3.1 of the evolving regenagri standard takes into account four years of learnings from working with various stakeholders and regenerative projects across global agri-food and textiles supply chains.

Contextualised assessment

The regenagri standard, which contains more than 30 criteria to measure environmental impact from implementing regenerative practices, now has a more diverse assessment capability tailored to localised farm conditions but on a global scale.

Contextualisation is based on conditions including geographical climates, varying soil types and types of farms.

This structured approach provides a more comprehensive and fairer evaluation of unique farmland, with distinct characteristics.

Social criteria

The regenagri standard also now includes labour criteria to ensure farms continue to grow responsibly on their regenerative journeys.

This includes ensuring farms adhere to requirements on important aspects, including child labour and young workers, freedom of association, freely chosen employment, wages and benefits, and health and safety.

Franco Costantini, managing director at regenagri, says:

“regenagri takes a comprehensive approach, backed by robust data, to assess the positive outcomes of regenerative farming.

“The updated standard drives a more granular farm assessment, making it fairer and more accessible to farms in any region in the world.

“The new updates also provides extra assurance that labour, health and safety principles are met.”