Market data on voluntary standards at your fingertips
Sustainability Trends provides access to information on the evolving market of the forestry sector and eight sustainably produced agricultural commodities – bananas, cocoa, coffee, cotton, palm oil, soybeans, sugarcane and tea.
Sustainability Trends is the only online portal that offers market information about 14 major sustainability standards in a comprehensive manner.
Open and accessible data on market trends
Information has been collected by three implementing partners:
Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD) and ITC. The work is supported by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).
Data has been collected in a collaborative manner with each of the 14 standards initiatives in a harmonized methodology against a set of eight indicators that focus on:
- Crop production;
- Production sold under a voluntary sustainability standard (VSS) label;
- Area cultivated;
- Numbers of producers and other operator types.
In the future, the three partners aim to expand the set of indicators against which information is being collected, and plan to broaden the scope of the products, sectors and sustainability standards.
Key features
- Information presented in interactive charts and graphs;
- Quality data collected in a harmonized way, provided by standards initiatives;
- Free access, as part of ITC's global public goods policy.