OECD-FAO Guidance for Responsible Agricultural Supply Chains

Overview

The Guidance aims to help enterprises follow responsible business standards and carry out due diligence in agricultural supply chains to prevent harm and promote sustainable development.

The Guidance targets all enterprises operating along agricultural supply chains, including private and public, small, medium and large-scale enterprises. It covers agricultural upstream and downstream sectors from input supply to production, post-harvest handling, processing, transportation, marketing, distribution and retailing. Several areas of risk arising along agricultural supply chains are addressed: human rights, labour rights, health and safety, food security and nutrition, tenure rights over and access to natural resources, animal welfare, environmental protection and sustainable use of natural resources, governance, technology, and innovation.

The Guidance comprises four sections:

1. A model enterprise policy outlining the standards that enterprises should observe to build responsible agricultural supply chains
2. A framework for risk-based due diligence describing the five steps that enterprises should follow to identify, assess, mitigate and account for how they address the adverse impacts of their activities
3. A description of the major risks faced by enterprises and the measures to mitigate these risks
4. Guidance for engaging with indigenous peoples 

This publication is accessible online.

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