Smail ALHILALI Cleaner & Sustainable Production Unit Environmental Management Branch UNIDO

1. Smail ALHILALI Cleaner & Sustainable Production UnitEnvironmental Management Branch UNIDO

2. 3rd Global Networking Conference on RECP(RECPnet)Sustainable Agro Value Chains3 September 2013Montreux, Switzerland

3. Developing an environmental tool for the agro-industry 3ADI GII • Accelerating the development of agribusiness and agro-industries • Promoting sustainable development • Adding value to agricultural commodities • Achieving equitable economic growth without harming the environment • Seizing opportunities in terms of sustainable industrial development • Growing global demand for green solutions Tool Designing a tool for the diagnosis and remediation of environmental sustainability of agro value chains UNIDO’s vision Achieving economic progress and environmental sustainability simultaneously Millennium Development Goals • Accelerating the development of agribusiness and agro-industries • Promoting sustainable development • Adding value to agricultural commodities

4. The tool will help to take sound decisions Taking sound decisions Monitoring and evaluating interventions Identifying greatest hot-spots in a value chain Benchmarking impacts of different value chains Designing scenarios Designing interventions Guiding principles 1 Focusing on environmental sustainability 2 Facilitating sound, evidence-based decisions 3 Being of practical nature 4 Enabling rapid use 5 Ensuring transferability Key characteristics 1 Taking into consideration the whole value chain and multiple stakeholders; being applicable in all sectors 2 Covering multiple environmental parameters 3 Requiring little skills and resources No current tool can fulfill all requirements; hence it is necessary to develop a new one 4 Requiring little data

5. The tool will encompass a five step process Five step process Identifying benefits for stakeholders Flexibility is key • The tool can be used by a variety of decision makers working at different levels at different stages in the chain • Data of different type from different sources and in different formats can be integrated • Environmental indicators can be selected according to the needs of a specific value chain

6. The value chain mirrors the businesses, activities and relationships Functional activities Technology provision Production Transformation Distribution Consumption Researching, developing,… Planting, harvesting,… Sorting, packaging,… Storing, transforming,… Consuming Business organizations Breeders Farmers Packaging station Traders Consumers Definition of the value chain (UNIDO) A value chain can be understood as a set of businesses, activities and relationships involved in creating a final product of services. It builds on the idea that a product is rarely consumed in its original form, but becomes transformed, combined with other products, transported, packaged and marketed until it reaches its final consumer. In this sense, a value chain describes how producers, processors, buyers, sellers and consumers – separated by time and space – gradually add value to products as they pass from one link in the chain to the next.

7. The value chain can be applied in environmental management Material resources Energy resources Land resources Chemical production and formulation Mining and extraction Fertilizer production Crop cultivation Expired food and packaging disposal Crop storage Retail outlet Consumption phase Bread or bear or oil production Packaging Transport Emissions to air Emissions to water Emissions to land

8. A number of environmental indicators have been developed EEA NFICA Defra GRI • Air pollution • Biodiversity • Chemicals • Climate Change • Environment and health • Land use • Natural resources • Noise • Soil • Waste and materials • Water • Removals from the environment • Energy • Water • Other materials • Emissions to air • Emissions to water • Emissions to land • Resource use • Materials • Energy • Water • Biodiversity • Emissions, effluents and waste • Products and services • Compliance • Transport • Overall • Emissions and discharges to the environment • Air • Water • Land Trade-off Few indicators Various indicators • Holistic • Complexity • Simplicity • Incompleteness

9. The nine boundaries may serve as a checklist for the tool Nine planetary boundaries (SRC, ANU) Climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, land use change, freshwater use, biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, nitrogen and phosphorus inputs, atmospheric aerosol loading, chemical pollution • Help to focus on the essential environmental factors; serve as a checklist • Allow to adapt according to the needs of different agro-industry sectors, locations or actors in the value chain Eleven dimensions of human deprivation (Oxfam) Water, food, health, gender equality, social equity, energy, jobs, voice, resilience, education, income • Help to prioritize the essential social issues • Eradicate poverty and inequity

10. A number of approaches and tools have been studied and evaluated

11. A number of approaches and tools have been studied and evaluated

12. A number of approaches and tools have been studied and evaluated

13. A number of approaches and tools have been studied and evaluated

14. A number of things have to be done

15. Thank youSmail ALHILALICleaner & Sustainable Production UnitEnvironmental Management BranchUNIDO, Vienna , Austrias.alhilali@unido.org