Context
Global agricultural supply chains are under strain: geopolitical tensions and the climate and biodiversity crisis are impacting producers and suppliers. Small-scale producers and workers in producing countries often live and work in difficult conditions. They have neither access to markets nor any say.
Meanwhile, European companies are required to adapt their supply chains to the European Union (EU) directives, such as the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
All stakeholders need access to socially and environmentally responsible raw materials and rely on reliable supply chains.
Objective
The conditions required for socio-ecological transformation in global agricultural supply chains are improved.
Approach
The project supports producers, businesses and producing countries in making agricultural supply chains more sustainable and organises formats for dialogue and cooperation. It also develops skills and structures in producing countries so that small-scale producers can maintain and expand their market access.
With the Due Diligence Fund (DDF) ideas competition, it promotes business models that use due diligence and innovative practices in cultivation or processing.
Under the name of FIT for FAIR, the project advises governments in producing countries. In doing so, it supports dialogue and reform to help adapt national policies to EU standards and to develop capacities.
Through the Alliance for the Digital Integration of Agricultural Supply Chains (DIASCA), it creates networks involving governments, the private sector and civil society. Together they work on developing digital public infrastructure (DPI) to facilitate traceability, monitoring and data exchange.
The project is part of the Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains Initiative (SASI) and contributes to the Team Europe Initiatives (TEIs) on Deforestation-free Value Chains and Sustainability in Global Value Chains.
Last update: October 2026
