To achieve the objectives the BSI is establishing Technical Working Groups (TWGs) - teams of technical and scientific experts - with global representation. These TWGs will assess Better Management Practices being used by sugar growers across the globe under three categories:
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Environment and agronomy
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Social and community
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Milling and co-products
Based on good practice achievements around the world, the TWGs will develop a set of universally-applicable guidelines for consideration by the BSI membership. The guidelines will follow the Quadruple Bottom Line approach which seeks to:
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Minimise the effects of sugarcane cultivation and processing on the off-site environment
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Maintain the value and quality of resources used for production, such as soil health and water
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Ensure production is profitable
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Ensure that production takes place in a socially equitable environment.
guidelines requiring further consideration will be tested in different cane-growing scenarios around the world to ensure that they are practical and achievable, and have the desired effect of improving the economic, environmental and social sustainability of sugarcane farming.