Environmental

Although loadshedding is a burden and has an economic impact on agriculture, the opposite is also true that the South African agricultural landscape is undergoing a remarkable transformation — one that is not only helping farms thrive but also contributing to a more sustainable future within the sector.

SIZA CARES (the Creating Awareness and Resilience in Environmental Sustainability programme) is a voluntary environmental sustainability programme that focuses on creating awareness and resilience among farms and packhouses.

With a growing awareness and mounting pressure for the agricultural sector to address the numerous environmental challenges facing our planet, the industry has embarked on a journey towards enhancing its environmental sustainability. In South Africa, producers, packhouses, and processing facilities now have the opportunity to gradually progress towards environmental sustainability by collaborating with SIZA once… Continue reading The SIZA Environmental Pillar of Sustainability: A Step-by-Step Journey

Generally speaking, there is a strong correlation between a country’s economy and the components of its populations diet.

The production of meat, particularly from intensive farming systems, has been identified as a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, and water pollution.

Invasive Alien Plants (IAPs) have invaded large areas of South Africa, resulting in numerous negative impacts on indigenous biodiversity and local ecosystems.

SIZA Environmental third-party audits are not a pass/fail exercise but rather a process to measure a suppliers’ compliance against the SIZA Environmental Standard, in order to identify areas on the site which are non-compliant and that require corrective actions and improvement. As more and more markets are requesting Environmental audits to be conducted, it is… Continue reading Options when scheduling SIZA Environmental Audit

In order to monitor the impacts of your business on the environment and to track progress made towards sustainability, recordkeeping of production inputs should be at the heart of all business operations.

Sustainability within the agricultural industry, and most other industries in the world, has become the flavour of the day. Ever mounting pressure on the environment has forced us to rethink our methods and methodologies when it comes to our business practices.

Volhoubaarheid binne die landboubedryf, en die meeste ander bedrywe in die wêreld, is deesdae in groot aanvraag. Die toenemende druk op die omgewing het ons gedwing om opnuut ons metodes en metodologieë rakende ons sakepraktyke te heroorweeg.