Sustainability is no longer just an essential element for production processes but, if included in a plan of virtuous actions, it can also become a formidable lever of competitiveness for companies. And, in particular, for those belonging to the agri-food supply chain.
At the base of everything, however, the theme of training is becoming increasingly central. Especially for a sector – the agri-food sector – which in the last thirty years has been the protagonist of profound innovation.
So much so that, according to Maria Chiara Ferrarese , general director of CSQA , an acronym for Certificazione Sicurezza Qualità Agroalimentare, the first certification body in Italy in the agri-food sector and beyond, "corporate culture today represents the true strategic lever for facing global challenges".
“We cannot talk about sustainability without talking about training,” he emphasizes. “It is necessary that every corporate figure, from ownership to logistics, is trained not only on the principles, but also on the concrete strategies related to sustainability.”
In short, a concrete declination of this new paradigm that represents the cardinal point for charting the course towards "a new vision of doing business: an approach in which sustainability means creating value, innovating and strengthening governance".
In this sense, a virtuous sector already exists and it is the wine sector . One of the sectors that has worked most and most effectively in the field of sustainability, with a strategic vision and with the aim of harmonizing the concept and application in the sector to propose itself to the market in the most unitary way possible. The sector has succeeded, with great foresight and proactivity, in defining a sustainability standard applicable to products, companies and also territories. This is the Equalitas standard , which sees CSQA among the founders, strongly desired by the Italian quality wine sector and recognized internationally by various important stakeholders.
This is a successful project to define a national standard that was created by producers, for producers, calibrated to the Italian reality, which perhaps for the first time has allowed the sector to "not be subject to" international standards as happened for food safety with Brcgs/Ifs.
What emerges, regarding sustainability, is the vision of perspective. In the long term, in fact, it represents a driver of efficiency, waste reduction, consumption containment and more conscious management of human resources and more.
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Source: Formiche.net