GLOBALG.A.P Risk Assessment on Social Practice (GRASP)

GLOBALG.A.P now publishes the GLOBALG.A.P Risk Assessment on Social Practice (GRASP) - after almost 5 years of stakeholder consultation with the kind support of GTZ, Coop, Edeka, Lidl, Metro AG and Migros and intensive stakeholder dialogue in more than 20 countries on 5 continents!

The GRASP Technical Committee has reviewed the project output and incorporated the input from another public consultation. The GLOBALG.A.P Risk Assessment on Social Practice is a voluntary assessment which can be done at the same time as a GLOBALG.A.P audit. The outcome of the assessment does not affect the GLOBALG.A.P certification but serves as additional information to supply chain partners who have been granted access to the results.

More than 60 GLOBALG.A.P auditors have been specially trained to conduct GRASP assessments. A database application has been developed to upload the assessment results in the GLOBALG.A.P database.  In addition, 11 National Interpretation Guidelines of the Module have been developed by local multi stakeholder groups and are now ready for implementation. GRASP can only be implemented in countries where such a GRASP National Interpretation Guideline exists. If you wish to develop such a guideline please contact the GLOBALG.A.P Secretariat for further support and guidance. 

It is expected that the GRASP toolkit will help raise the awareness of the importance of social issues in agriculture as well as provide practical guidance on what a producer can do to promote good social practices in their operations.  

 

 

GRASP Toolkit and Further Information

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