Agriculture standards
When a company joins the Fair Labor Association’s agriculture program, its leadership makes a commitment to the Agricultural Supply Chain Principles for Responsible Sourcing and agrees to uphold the Fair Labor Code in its supply chain.
The Fair Labor Code and Fair Labor Principles are applied at different parts of the supply chain and work in tandem to protect laborers and improve working conditions.
FLA member companies implement the Fair Labor Principles at their company headquarters. Fair Labor Principles focus on the systems, frameworks, policies, and procedures a company must have in place to ensure that workers’ rights are respected in its global supply chain.
Members work with suppliers to implement the Fair Labor Code at the farm level. The code of conduct is accompanied by compliance benchmarks specific to the agriculture sector. These benchmarks recognize the special circumstances of agriculture work and provide guidance to companies on how to implement the code requirements through their agricultural supply chains.
Members are assessed regularly against the principles and benchmarks. FLA implements several types of Independent External Assessments to evaluate the performance of each member company’s human rights due diligence program and working conditions at the farm level.
Fair Labor Accreditation for agriculture is unique from other certifications in that it offers independent, third-party validation of the human rights due diligence program at the headquarters of the companies and at the farm level for specific commodities like coffee, cocoa, hazelnut, palm, sugarcane, coconut, and others.
Agriculture standards
Supply Chain Principles for Responsible Sourcing
Agriculture assessments
Agriculture assessments
Types of agriculture assessments
Approved monitoring organizations and assessors
Milestones toward Fair Labor Accreditation
Fair Labor Accreditation for agriculture companies is designed to verify and strengthen working conditions in the agricultural tiers of a company’s global supply chain. To earn accreditation, agriculture companies must meet a rigorous series of milestones that mark progress in implementing, monitoring, and remediating workplace standards based on FLA’s Fair Labor Practices for Agricultural Supply Chains.
Each milestone represents a key building block in the continuous journey toward developing an effective human rights due diligence program that improves working conditions and worker well-being.