Tools & Resources
A variety of useful tools, resources and research, specifically designed and curated for the sugarcane industry.
How to use this page
Whether you’re from a farm, mill, or consumer-facing business, you’ll find resources here that will help you to achieve success with sugarcane. Simply toggle the filters along the right-hand side of the page to narrow your search.
Production-standard
Guidance for the Production Standard v4.2
The Production Standard helps farmers and mills to measure their productivity and key environmental and social impacts. On the road to certification, businesses can increase efficiency, lower energy use, and reduce waste – all the time improving on the bottom line.
Read more DownloadProduction-standard
Guidance For The Production Standard (Latest Version, English)
The primary purpose of this document is to provide farmers and millers with guidance and clarification on the indicators of the Bonsucro Production Standard. It also provides additional requirements, the implementation of which will support conformity with the Bonsucro Production Standard. It serves as guidance on how to implement the Standard at the mill and […]
Read more DownloadChain-of-custody-standard
Bonsucro Chain Of Custody Standard v4.0
The objective of this Guidance of Implementation of Bonsucro Mass balance CoC Standard is to facilitate the understanding and implementation of Bonsucro CoC Standard by economic operators, Certification Bodies and the wider audience. The document shall be read in conjunction with the Bonsucro Mass Balance CoC Standard as this document contains all the requirements to be met in order to achieve Chain of Custody certification.
Read more DownloadProduction-standard
Bonsucro Production Standard v4.1.1
The Production Standard helps farmers and mills to measure their productivity and key environmental and social impacts. On the road to certification, businesses can increase efficiency, lower energy use, and reduce waste – all the time improving on the bottom line.
Read more DownloadProduction-standard
Bonsucro Production Standard for Smallholder Farmers
This document adapts the set of principles, criteria and indicators of the Bonsucro Production Standard – which defines sustainable performance of sugarcane producers and processors – for the smallholder farmer context. The Bonsucro Production Standard for Smallholder Farmers covers environmental, social, and economic sustainability with performance-based indicators, specifically designed for application to sugarcane production.
Read more DownloadCertification
Bonsucro Accreditation and Oversight Procedure
This document specifies the procedure for the accreditation and oversight of certification bodies (CBs) including the initial accreditation process and the requirements for the maintenance of accreditation. The purpose of this procedure is to ensure the credibility of the Bonsucro accreditation process by incorporating best practice guidelines from ISEAL and ISO 17011 and to provide transparency and clarity on the process of Bonsucro accreditation.
Read more DownloadProduction-standard
Minutes from Bonsucro Smallholder Steering Committee Meeting September 2017
DownloadCertification
Certification Protocol v5.1
Bonsucro has developed a Certification Protocol that presents the process and procedures
for certification against the Bonsucro standards including:
• The requirements for a certification body to be accredited as being a competent body
capable of undertaking audits and issuing certificates of conformance against the
Bonsucro Standards.
• The way in which certification must be carried out by such certification bodies
(Certification process requirements).
Chain-of-custody-standard
Guidance for the Mass Balance Chain of Custody Standard v4.1 (Español)
DownloadChain-of-custody-standard
Guidance for the Mass Balance Chain of Custody Standard v4.1 (Portuguese)
DownloadChain-of-custody-standard
Bonsucro Mass Balance Chain of Custody Standard v4.1 (Portuguese)
DownloadChain-of-custody-standard
Guidance for the Mass Balance Chain of Custody Standard v4.1
The objective of this Guidance of Implementation of Bonsucro Mass balance CoC Standard is to facilitate the understanding and implementation of Bonsucro CoC Standard by economic operators, Certification Bodies and the wider audience. The document shall be read in conjunction with the Bonsucro Mass Balance CoC Standard as this document contains all the requirements to […]
Read more DownloadProduction-standard
Bonsucro Standard Development and Revision Procedure v1.2
This document specifies the procedure to be followed by Bonsucro for the development of any new Bonsucro international standards and when substantive changes to existing Bonsucro international standards are made and Bonsucro. The purpose of this procedure is to ensure the credibility of all Bonsucro standards, by incorporating the values of transparency, participation and fairness […]
Read more DownloadReports
Bonsucro Systems Report (2017)
As a full member of ISEAL, Bonsucro is required to submit and publish an annual report on its Monitoring and Evaluation System.
DownloadReports
Bonsucro Systems Report (2015)
As a full member of ISEAL, Bonsucro is required to submit and publish an annual report on its Monitoring and Evaluation System.
DownloadChain-of-custody-standard
Bonsucro Chain Of Custody Standard Guidance (2015)
The objective of this Guidance of Implementation of Bonsucro Mass balance CoC Standard is to facilitate the understanding and implementation of Bonsucro CoC Standard by economic operators, Certification Bodies and the wider audience. The document shall be read in conjunction with the Bonsucro Mass Balance CoC Standard as this document contains all the requirements to be met in order to achieve Chain of Custody certification.
Read more DownloadChain-of-custody-standard
Bonsucro Chain Of Custody Standard Interpretation Note (Portuguese)
DownloadReports
Bonsucro Systems Report (2014)
As a full member of ISEAL, Bonsucro is required to submit and publish an annual report on its Monitoring and Evaluation System.
DownloadReports
Bonsucro Systems Report (2016)
As a full member of ISEAL, Bonsucro is required to submit and publish an annual report on its Monitoring and Evaluation System.
DownloadProduction-standard
Climatic Zones – Yield goals for Rainfed and Irrigated Sugarcane (crop per drop)
Discover which Climatic Zone your business falls within using our map. Key Benefits: Particularly useful for indicator 3.1.2 of the Bonsucro Production Standard Yield goals for Rainfed and Irrigated Sugarcane
Read more Download