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Scale up your sustainable impact with SIFAV

Benefits of becoming a SIFAV partner

 

SIFAV unites different actors in the fresh fruit and vegetable supply chain around common sustainability objectives.

By joining SIFAV, you will scale up your sustainable engagement through collaboration with like-minded ambitious companies within the sector – thus generating positive impact and value for your business.

Driving action in supply chain

Keeping momentum through joint targets, annual reporting, and enhanced sourcing requirements, while also engaging suppliers, and capacitating companies

Monetary benefits and cost savings

Realising monetary benefits through joint development of tools, trainings, and projects. Moreover, projects are eligible for IDH co-funding

Setting sector-wide approach

Driving industry change and pre-competitive alignment through joint approach setting

Effectively mitigating risks through research and tools

Mitigating risks for your own company by contributing to and benefitting from quality research and jointly developed tools, joint policies, actions, and studies

Learning, expertise, and international cooperation

Participate in exchange and learning sessions as well as working group to develop joint approaches and achieve results

Clear and positive communication

Showing that you are making a difference by proving progress on sustainability targets to stakeholders

What is expected from you as a partner?

 

SIFAV has been growing steadily over the past few years and has partners ranging from retailers and traders to civil society organizations and associate partners. The initiative is open to all organizations and companies active within the global fruit and vegetable sector. Becoming a SIFAV partner essentially means:

Commitment

Committing to the SIFAV 2025 strategy targets and implementing action in your company and supply chains to reach those targets

Participation

Participate in exchange and learning sessions as well as working group to develop joint approaches and achieve results

Contribution

Contribute to the development of the tools and approaches by paying an annual membership fee

Track progress

Report on a yearly basis to SIFAV on your progress made

SIFAV membership fees

SIFAV unites different actors in the fresh fruit and vegetable supply chain, ranging from retailers and traders to civil society organizations and associate partners, around common sustainability objectives.

The annual fees for each of these membership categories differ according to the annual turnover.

Membership Category (Annual fee in €)

Retail more than 100 mln turnover

Retail less then 100 mln turnover

Trade less than 50 mln turnover

Trade 10-50 mln turnover

Trade less than 10 mln turnover

Associate partner

Standards organization

NGO

full fee can be contributed in-kind

SIFAV Partners

SIFAV Partners