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 underlying organic principles
- Identify the impact of best practice guidelines and using organic 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
- Determine Social Capital benefits from Community engagement with the farm enterprise
- Identify food security and food sovereignty issues addressed by farm business practices
- Monitor compliance with regulatory and legislative requirements in relation to labour management where applicable
- Determine level of engagement with community engagement with local networks and community groups, regional food networks and regional bodies