How sustainable is your agri-food supply chain?
Measure the sustainability of your agri-food supply chain and discover improvement opportunities to reduce the impact of your products. With YouSustain.net, you can use a certified system for a comprehensive and detailed assessment of the entire production process, ensuring transparency and reliability.
Why Evaluate Sustainability?
Sustainability is not just a trend but a fundamental strategy that brings numerous benefits: it enhances reputation, optimizes costs, and facilitates access to new markets.
- Reduction of operational costs: By using resources efficiently and reducing waste, you can lower production costs and improve competitiveness.
- Enhancement of corporate reputation: Consumers and business partners reward companies that adopt sustainable practices.
- Access to international markets: Many markets demand sustainable and certified products, opening new business opportunities.
- Compliance with regulations: Environmental regulations are becoming increasingly stringent. Adhering to them is not only mandatory but also a competitive advantage.
Monitoring trends, comparing different cropping systems, and measuring greenhouse gas emissions require big data and user-friendly tools, which are in high demand.
Take a look at our services and find the one that best suits you!
Evaluate sustainability with YouSustain.net
YouSustain.net allows you to assess your company’s sustainability using internationally recognized indicators within a certified tool, validated by CCPB in accordance with the technical document DTS_01.
With our platform, you can:
- Conduct a detailed assessment of the environmental and social performance of your products, identifying critical areas for improvement.
- Compare different scenarios and solutions to adopt the best sustainable practices.
- Obtain clear and detailed reports to communicate the results to your stakeholders, enhancing transparency and trust.
The platform supports over 30 different crops. Below are the main ones:
Wine grapes
Barley
Sunflower
Table grapes
Melon
Tomato
Olive tree
Sugar Beet
Pea
Common wheat
Potato
Maize
It’s COMPLETE
Simultaneously calculates multiple indicators
It’s RIGOROUS
Based on scientific research and international standards
It’s SIMPLE
Required information is easily available and quick to input
It’s CERTIFIED
Methods and algorithms have been certified
It’s FLEXIBLE
Real-time results
Highly adaptable to user needs
Sustainability Indicators
We use internationally recognized indicators to assess your company’s sustainability.
YouSustain.net complies with the DTS 01 REV. 1 standard, and the indicators include:
- Energy Efficiency: Reduce energy consumption per unit of product and cut costs.
- Water Resource Use: Optimize water use in the production process, preserving a vital resource.
- CO2 Emissions: Monitor and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to contribute to the fight against climate change.
The main indicators are:
HEALTH
- Human Tox Score
- Dose Area Index
- Treatment Frequency Index
ENERGY
- Fuel Use
- Renewable Fuel
- Waste
BIODIVERSITY
- Eco Tox Score
AIR
- Carbon Footprint
- Carbon Sequestration
SOIL
- Ecological Footprint
- Organic Matter
- Soil Coverage
- Erosion
- Soil Compaction
WATER
- Water Footprint (ISO 14046)
- Water Supply
- Water Use
- Acidification
- Eutrophication
How sustainable is your production process?
With YouSustain.net, you can improve and monitor the sustainability of the entire agri-food supply chain, making more informed and sustainable choices and demonstrating your commitment.
With YouSustain, you can:
- Assess your sustainability and progress compared to previous years.
- Evaluate potential improvements from introducing innovative techniques or methods.
- Demonstrate your company's sensitivity towards the environment, the surrounding landscape, and the health of operators and consumers.
- Enhance your company’s reputation.
Use YouSustain.net to be rewarded for your efforts and ensure a positive impact on both the environment and society.
How to use it?
- Create a crop unit (one hectare of a crop with the same farming system) on our application.
- Complete the digital field notebook by entering all crop activities, from soil preparation to harvest.
- YouSustain.net calculates the KPIs.
You can customize the list of indicators based on your needs and integrate checklists, additional protocols, and indicators. .
Compare an unlimited number of scenarios and obtain a comprehensive assessment of both annual and perennial crops, from "cradle to warehouse".
In addition to the 20 main indicators, YouSustain.net calculates more than 190 additional KPIs in agronomy and environmental engineering, mainly for the assessment of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Environmental Footprint (PEF). Drafting reports and establishing baseline scenarios are complementary activities particularly necessary for comparing different crop management methods.
LCA (Life Cycle Assessment)
LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) is a methodology for assessing environmental impacts associated with all stages of a commercial product, process, or service lifecycle. In agriculture, products include cereals, fruit, vegetables, oils, meat, milk, eggs, and mushrooms.
Available tools support:
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ISO 14040 Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
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ISO 14067 Product and Organization Carbon Footprint