Source Botanicals Aotearoa Ltd offers technical support on natural product value chains, including sourcing, product development and product quality assurance from the tree or producer level to the final consumer with full traceability and transparency.
There are many measures of social and environmental sustainability, based on verifiable compliance with voluntary standards ranging from organic wildcraft and fair trade production by community-based producer groups in Africa, Asia and New Zealand.
In the developing countries from which many natural products originate, the impetus for producer diversification has grown exponentially over the past decade, with the effects of food crises (with some level of implication by biofuels) and the long-term effects of climate change, including increased climatic uncertainty and an increasing frequency of extreme weather events.
Procurement of natural products in ‘raw’ or processed form should take into account conditions of production and assess the remunerative value to the primary producer as a means of demonstrating corporate social responsibility toward social and environmental sustainability – but also as a fundamental means on ensuring adequate producer attention to product quality.
Source Botanicals draws on the science of natural products through technical support to the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), and on aspects of product certification through technical support to the Fairtrade Foundation (FTF).
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Source Botanicals Aotearoa Ltd offers technical support on natural product value chains, including sourcing, product development and product quality assurance from the tree or producer level to the final consumer with full traceability and transparency.
There are many measures of social and environmental sustainability, based on verifiable compliance with voluntary standards ranging from organic wildcraft and fair trade production by community-based producer groups in Africa, Asia and New Zealand.
In the developing countries from which many natural products originate, the impetus for producer diversification has grown exponentially over the past decade, with the effects of food crises (with some level of implication by biofuels) and the long-term effects of climate change, including increased climatic uncertainty and an increasing frequency of extreme weather events.
Procurement of natural products in ‘raw’ or processed form should take into account conditions of production and assess the remunerative value to the primary producer as a means of demonstrating corporate social responsibility toward social and environmental sustainability – but also as a fundamental means on ensuring adequate producer attention to product quality.
Source Botanicals draws on the science of natural products through technical support to the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), and on aspects of product certification through technical support to the Fairtrade Foundation (FTF).