Florverde®: Social responsibility and the environmental commitment
Florverde® implementation ensures compliance with strict international social and environmental standards from planting to postharvest.
This initiative began in 1996 to develop best practices that could help ensure the quality of life of workers and their families, as well as environmental sustainability for generations to come.
Florverde® was created as a strategic initiative for promoting sustainable floriculture with social responsibility at both the company and industry-wide levels. This comprehensive strategy includes:
• A certification system
• An information collection and analysis system
• An assessment and mentoring process to drive continuous improvement
Certification
The Florverde® Certification System (FvCS) is made up of a series of regulatory documents dealing with standards and other important criteria. These are supported by its information system and mentoring processes that assures continuous improvement and validate that flowers certified under this label are produced under the highest environmental and social standards.
Florverde® third party standards verification:
Florverde® certification uses independent third-party Certification Bodies (CBs) accredited under ISO65 by international Accreditation Bodies (ABs) for the scopes of Florverde® and GlobalG.A.P.
Icontec is an international certification body with offices throughout the entire American continent; SGS is an international auditing company headquartered in Switzerland. Both are independent Certification Bodies approved to grant the Florverde® label. Icontec has been accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in the USA.
All of the above, giving the consumer assurance that the products they buy, are produced complying with the highest environmental and social standards.
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Florverde® demands absolute compliance with enforceable requirements, including:
Information System
It manages information on environmental and social company performance, to:
• Assess socio-environmental sector performance
• Design strategies and implement actions for sector and company-by-company environmental and social improvement
• Demonstrate sector performance to stakeholders
- Sectorial performance indicators
- Florverde short list of indicators.
- Login to the Florverde Information System
• On-site visits
• Round tables
• Performance information analysis
• Case-study documentation
• Group visits to learn by imitation
• Training through workshops, courses and seminars
• Auditing-type visits by Florverde experts
• RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT! (Occupational health, ILO, Water regimes and use, Pesticides traces on plastics, Smallholders implementation, etc)
