Elements and Performance Criteria
- Access the farm businesses guidelines and principles for social, financial and environmental sustainability
- Identify environmental regulations, organic farming requirements and the organic farm plan which apply to the farming enterprise.
- Source and interpret environmental and sustainable organic farming information and current best practice guidelines and principles.
- Identify the impact of best practice guidelines and principles on day to day farm operations and management.
- Identify key sustainability practices for an organic farming enterprise.
- Access business guidelines and farm practices which comply with sustainable organic farming guidelines and principles.
- Implement established farm business guidelines and principles
- Implement strategies to effectively integrate sustainability principles and practices into the organic farm system.
- Identify continuous improvement opportunities and document identified changes to businesses guidelines and principles.
- Implement agreed improvements to the farm businesses guidelines and principles.
- Monitor farm business sustainability initiatives for effectiveness and compliance
- Engage farm business stakeholders in sustainability practices
- Communicate sustainability strategies to stakeholders and relevant staff.
- Monitor stakeholder compliance with organic sustainability strategies along the entire supply chain.
- Identify and document identified continuous improvement initiatives.
- Encourage and assist stakeholders to implement improvements to the system.