Tools & Resources
A variety of useful tools, resources and research, specifically designed and curated for the sugarcane industry.
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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.
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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.
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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 […]
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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.
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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.
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Bonsucro EU-RED Standard for compliance with the EU Renewable Energy Directive
The ‘Bonsucro EU-RED Standard for Compliance with the EU Renewable Energy Directive Requirements’ (also referred to as Bonsucro EU-RED Standard) has been designed as a voluntary add on to the Bonsucro standards. The Bonsucro EU-RED Standard defines how, under certain conditions, sugar cane millers and their supplying area as well as supply chain operators are […]
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Payment for environmental services in the context of sugarcane production
Payment for environmental services (PES) are schemes that seek to offer payment to landowners to implement good agricultural practices and protect the environment. In 2020, Bonsucro worked with five other organisations on a study to investigate whether it is possible to implement PES within the sugarcane supply chain by recognising good environmental practices of sugarcane producers as providers for environmental services.
Here is the final report from the study.
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Pagamento por serviços ambientais no contexto da produção de cana-de-açúcar
Pagamento por serviços ambientais (PSA) são esquemas que buscam oferecer pagamento aos proprietários de terras para implementar boas práticas agrícolas e proteger o meio ambiente. Em 2020, Bonsucro trabalhou com outras cinco organizações em um estudo para investigar se é possível implementar PSA na cadeia de abastecimento da cana-de-açúcar, reconhecendo as boas práticas ambientais dos produtores de cana-de-açúcar como prestadores de serviços ambientais.
Aqui está o relatório final do estudo.
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2019-20 Annual Financial and Governance Report
Bonsucro’s 2019-20 Annual Financial and Governance Report. The document shares some key highlights from the year along with changes to governance and the updated accounts.
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Bonsucro Additional Requirements – Certification Protocol – Auditing in the context of COVID-19 – 20200709
Bonsucro publishes Additional Requirements to the Certification Protocol (i.e. new requirements) outside the cycle of Protocol revision. Members are audited in line with Additional Requirements to the Certification Protocol. This document is in English.
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Requirements of Bonsucro certification system to support Bagasse certification against the Dutch sustainability criteria
In September 2013, more than 40 Dutch government bodies, companies and non-governmental organisations endorsed the National Energy Agreement for Sustainable Growth. Following a decision by the Bonsucro Board of Directors, the Bonsucro certification system has been amended to fulfil the system requirements defined by the Dutch government in response to the National Energy Agreement for […]
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Padrão Bonsucro EU-red de balanço de massa e cadeia de custódia incluindo guia de implantação
O Padrão Bonsucro de Balanço de Massa e Cadeia de Custódia Versão 5.1 e o Padrão Bonsucro EU-RED de Balanço de Massa e Cadeia de Custódia Versão 5.1 foram aprovados pelo Conselho de Administração da Bonsucro em 31 de janeiro de 2019. Tais documentos entraram em vigor em 11 de março de 2019.
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Padrão Bonsucro de balanço de massa e cadeia de custódia incluindo guia de implantação
O Padrão Bonsucro de Balanço de Massa e Cadeia de Custódia Versão 5.1 e o Padrão Bonsucro EU-RED de Balanço de Massa e Cadeia de Custódia Versão 5.1 foram aprovados pelo Conselho de Administração da Bonsucro em 31 de janeiro de 2019. Tais documentos entraram em vigor em 11 de março de 2019.
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Bonsucro Explanatory Document ChoC-2.1.7 20200522
Bonsucro provides explanatory documents which contain further information related to the Standards. Members are not to be audited against the explanatory documents. This document is in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
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Estándar de Producción Bonsucro para pequeños agricultores
Este documento adapta el conjunto de principios, criterios e indicadores del Estándar de Producción Bonsucro, el cual define el desempeño sostenible de productores y procesadores de caña de azúcar al contexto de los pequeños agricultores. El Estándar de Producción Bonsucro para pequeños agricultores cubre aspectos de sostenibilidad ambiental, social y económica con indicadores de desempeño, […]
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Estándar De La Cadena De Custodia Para El Balance De Masa De Bonsucro Y Guía Para Su Implementación
El 31 de enero del 2019, la Junta Directiva aprobó la versión 5.1 del Estándar de la cadena de custodia para el balance de masa de Bonsucro y del Estándar de la cadena de custodia para el balance de masa de Bonsucro conforme a la Directiva Europea de Energías Renovables (EU RED). Ambos entraron en […]
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Monitoring Framework Priority Indicators for Monitoring & Evaluation – Website
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Bonsucro EU RED Mass Balance Chain of Custody Standard (including Guidance) Version 5.1
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Bonsucro Bonsucro Mass Balance Chain of Custody Standard (including Guidance) Version 5.1
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Benchmark Gap Analysis Bonsucro Chain of Custody (Vs Fairtrade, ISO, ISCC, RSPO)
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Summary of Changes to the Draft Chain of Custody Standard V5.0
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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.
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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.
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Minutes from Bonsucro Smallholder Steering Committee Meeting September 2017
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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).
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Guidance for the Mass Balance Chain of Custody Standard v4.1 (Español)
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Guidance for the Mass Balance Chain of Custody Standard v4.1 (Portuguese)
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Bonsucro Mass Balance Chain of Custody Standard v4.1 (Portuguese)
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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 […]
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Bonsucro Standard Development and Revision Procedure v1.4
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 […]
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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.
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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.
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Bonsucro Chain Of Custody Standard Guidance (2011, Portuguese)
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Bonsucro Chain Of Custody Standard Guidance (2015, Portuguese)
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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.
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Bonsucro Chain Of Custody Standard Interpretation Note (Portuguese)
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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.
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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.
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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
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