SIZA, the Sustainability Initiative of South Africa, provides a platform for agricultural stakeholders to ensure ethically and environmentally sustainable trade.
With improving input efficiency being one of the main objectives of the SIZA Environmental Standard, SIZA has partnered with AMT Fresh by providing a direct link to the Water Monitoring Tool (WMT) on the SIZA Environmental SAQ.
As the SIZA Environmental Standard embraces the use of technology as part of effective water management, SIZA has partnered with the FruitLook Programme by including a direct link to the FruitLook web portal on the SIZA Environmental SAQ.
Climate change is a pressing global issue. South Africa is within the top twenty largest greenhouse gas emitters in the world and a signatory to the UNFCCC CoP21 agreements in Paris, December 2015.
SIZA received nine complaints between 01 January 2020 and 30 September 2020.
As a control measure, SIZA implemented an option for members who needed to have audits conducted during the COVID-19 national lockdown period.
Six critical findings were reported for the months of January 2020 to September 2020.
A total of 511 social audits have been conducted for the period 01 January to 30 September 2020.
Due to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s declaration concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, SIZA will be implementing an audit procedure that will allow Environmental Third-Party audits to continue. While still adhering to the SIZA Environmental Audit Process and Methodology (APM), two options will exist.
On the 19th of November 2019, SIZA publicly opened the applications for all independent third-party audit companies to apply to become recognised to conduct SIZA Environmental audits.
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