The Syndicat International des Vignerons en Culture Bio-Dynamique (SIVCBD) requires that members be certified winemakers AB for their entire area and also cultivate their entire property in biodynamics. The SIVCBD provides a specification to ECOCERT an independent body that carries out an annual check on each field. Depending on the inspection report, SIVCBD issuing the label BIODYVIN.

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BioGro is a not-for-profit organic producer and consumer organization, actively working to grow organics in New Zealand.

Developed over 25 years, especially for New Zealand organic producers, the BioGro NZ Organic Standards are practical and achievable. BioGro is one of just 30 international organic certification agencies accredited by the IFOAM - International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements. IFOAM represents the best in international organic standards.

BioGro provides professional auditing and certification services and holds ISO 17020/EN 45004 accreditation.

BioGro is an approved Third Party Agency with the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) for exports of BioGro certified products to Europe and USA through the NZFSA Official Organic Assurance Programme.

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Creation of Business for Social Responsibility, a United States based business led membership organization focusing on corporate social responsibility.

BSR is a US-based global resource which assists companies to sustain their commercial success while respecting ethical values, people, communities and the environment.

Its sister organization, the Business for Social Responsibility Education Fund (BSREF), is a charitable organization which conducts research and educational programs. Its website includes news and in-depth reports on corporate social responsibility, BSR's events, publications and information on BSR training programs. (Return to Top)

California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) promotes and supports organic food and agriculture through a premier organic certification program, trade support, producer and consumer education and political advocacy. From apples to zucchini, from almonds to wine, CCOF is involved in every facet of organics, with over 1,300 different organic crops and products, including livestock, processed products and services.

CCOF provides certification services to all stages of the organic food chain from farms to processors, restaurants and retailers. CCOF certifies to the USDA National Organic Program standards and CCOF international standards.

CCOF was founded in 1973 as a mutual assistance and certification organization for organic farmers and was one the first organizations to perform organic certification in North America. Since then, the CCOF seal has been your assurance of certification with integrity. Today, CCOF maintains one of the most consumer recognized and trusted seals in the organic marketplace. CCOF remains one of the oldest and largest organic certification and trade associations in North America, with more than 2,000 certified members throughout the farm and processing community and more than 350 supporting members.

CCOF Certification Services is accredited by USDA National Organic Program. To ensure international trade access for our clients, they maintain International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), ISO Guide 65 accreditation and are CAQ registered.

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California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance develops partnerships for funding education and outreach to advance the understanding and adoption of sustainable practices.

The Sustainable Winegrowing Program was initiated in January 2001 by winegrowing members of Wine Institute and the California Association of Winegrape Growers (CAWG) to promote vineyard and winery practices that are sensitive to the environment, responsive to the needs and interests of society-at-large, and economically feasible to implement and maintain.

The Sustainable Winegrowing Program's mission, vision and values best describe the combination of factors that motivated the California wine community to design, develop, implement and report on a comprehensive sustainability program.

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Demeter is a network of individual certification organizations. In 1997 Demeter-International was founded for closer co-operation in the legal, economic and spiritual spheres.

Presently Demeter International has eighteen (18) member organizations from Europe, United States of America, Demeter Trade Association. Africa and New Zealand. Demeter-International represents more than 3.500 Demeter producers in approximately forty(40) countries.

Demeter is the brand for products from Biodynamic Agriculture. It is a brand that is strictly controlled and there is a comprehensive verification process insures strict compliance with the International Demeter Production and Processing Standards, as well as applicable organic regulations in the various countries -- from agricultural production to processing and final product packaging.

Read the Demeter Wine Standards that producers must implement by December 31, 2008.

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FIVS was founded in July 1951 with headquarters Paris, France, and represents all sectors of the wine, spirits and beer industries - producers, distributors, importers, exporters and trade associations.

FIVS is pursuing a strategic initiative on "sustainable development" focused in the wine sector. This initiative, applying sustainable environmental principles to the global wine sector ("The Global Wine Sector Environmental Sustainability Principles" - GWSESP)

FIVS recognizes that the continued health of the wine industry rests entirely on natural resources, namely: solar energy, an appropriate climate, clean water, healthy soils, and the successful integration of these elements within sound ecological tenets. GWSESP Brochure English - French

Other intitiatives include "Calculation of Carbon Footprints" and "Wine Industry Greenhouse Gas Calculator"

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The mission of IFOAM - International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements "is leading, uniting and assisting the organic movement in its full diversity." Its " goal is the worldwide adoption of ecologically, socially and economically sound systems that are based on the principles of Organic Agriculture."

Leading the organic movements worldwide, IFOAM implements the will of its broad based constituency - from farmers' organizations to multinational certification agencies, ensuring the credibility and longevity of organic agriculture as a means to ecological, economic and social sustainability.

The IFOAM Organic Guarantee System enables organic certifiers to become "IFOAM Accredited" and for certified operators to label their products with the IFOAM Seal next to the logo of their IFOAM accredited certifier.

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The International Organization for Biological Control (IOBC) was established in 1955 as a global organization affiliated to the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU). IOBC promotes environmentally safe methods of pest and disease control. It is a voluntary organization of biological-control workers.

There are six (6) geographic sections, representing the major continental regions.

• APRS - Asia and the Pacific Regional Section
• ATRS - Afrotropical Regional Section
• EPRS - East Palearctic Regional Section
• NRS - Nearctic Regional Section
• NTRS - Neotropical Regional Section
• WPRS - West Palearctic Regional Section

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The Lodi Rules for Sustainable Winegrowing are California's first sustainable winegrowing standards that have been peer reviewed by scientists, academics and environmentalists and being implemented on a region-wide basis.

The Lodi Rules are based on the Lodi Winegrower's Workbook and are designed to lead to measurable improvements in environmental health of the surrounding ecosystem, society-at-large, and wine quality. Participating growers can get their vineyards certified as producing sustainably-grown winegrapes. Unlike 'do no harm' programs that consist mainly of practices that should not be used, The Lodi Rules program requires growers to use a wide range of sustainable practices that result in continual improvement of all aspects of their farming operations.

The Lodi Rules Program is third party certified which means the standards have been reviewed and endorsed by an organization not connected to the Lodi Woodbridge Winegrape Commission. Vineyards in The Lodi Rules program will be certified by Protected Harvest, an environmental non-profit organization that endorses farmers' use of stringent environmental farming standards. Protected Harvest has received the highest rating by Consumers Union as an eco-label with meaningful, verifiable, and transparent standards.

The Lodi Rules Program has two components;

• Sustainable winegrowing standards
• Pesticide Environmental Assessment System that measures the environmental impact of all the pesticides, whether organic or synthetic, used in a vineyard during the year (PEAS).

To qualify for certification a vineyard has to achieve a minimum number of sustainable farming practices points based on The Lodi Rules, and not exceed a maximum number of pesticide impact points calculated using PEAS. Certification is awarded to an individual vineyard on an annual basis. Protected Harvest ensures compliance and chain of custody with The Lodi Rules using an auditing process.

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Low Input Viticulture & Enology (LIVE) is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization that provides education and certification for vineyards and wineries.

LIVE uses international standards of sustainable viticultural and enological practices in both wine-grape and wine production. These practices are based on an independent 3rd-party-verified checklist system consisting of required and prohibited elements, as well as numerous ecological options.

Program Objectives

• To see the vineyard as a whole system.
• To create and maintain viticulture that is economically viable over time.
• To maintain the highest level of quality in our fruit production.
• Integrated production should not require any compromise of our quality standards
• To implement cultural practices and to solve problems in such a way that we minimize the use of off farm inputs, such as agricultural chemicals and fertilizers, with the goal of protecting the farmer, the environment, and society at large.
• To encourage farming practices which promote and maintain high biological diversity in the whole vineyard.
• To encourage responsible stewardship of soil health, fertility, and stability.

LIVE is certified by the International Organization for Biological Control (IOBC), the official certifying agency in Europe for sustainable agriculture. Products that receive the certification are recognized in the European market place. There has been much interest in the United States over the past several years for products that are of high quality and are produced under our label. (Return to Top)

Formed in 1986, The National Association for Sustainable Agriculture, Australia - NASAA provides certification and inspection services. Certification by NASAA provides a guarantee to the consumer that the product is a verifiable "organic" product.

NASAA is nationally audited and accredited under the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service (AQIS) Organic and Bio-dynamic Program.

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Nature et Progrès is one of the oldest PGS in the world, functioning without discontinuity since 1972.

This French association has from the beginning involved various stakeholders and pioneers of the organic movement, including farmers, consumers, agronomists, technicians and even medical doctors.

Today, Nature et Progrès still operates as a PGS, with its own private organic standard, its own certification procedures (involving peer review and consumers in the inspection process) but is not allowed to call its products "organic" ("biologique" in French) due to the third party certification requirements of the EU regulation.

The Nature et Progrès label is still recognized positively by many organic consumers, but organic shops are starting to refuse the N&P products, and younger generations are less aware of the history and values of N&P, leading many of the N&P producers to be also third party certified so as to be able to access markets.

You can learn more about N&P at http://www.natureetprogres.org/. (Retrieved July 11, 2009 from the IFOAM website http://www.ifoam.org/about_ifoam/standards/pgs_projects/pgs_projects/15408.php) (Return to Top)

Oregon Tilth Certified Organic (OTCO) is a nonprofit organization supporting and promoting biologically sound and socially equitable agriculture through education, research, advocacy, and certification. Oregon Tilth advocates sustainable approaches to agricultural production systems and processing, handling and marketing.

Oregon Tilth's purpose is to educate gardeners, farmers, legislators, and the general public about the need to develop and use sustainable growing practices that promote soil health, conserve natural resources, and prevent environmental degradation while producing a clean and healthful food supply for humanity.

The history of Oregon Tilth reaches as far back as the early 1970's, as the descendant of Regional Tilth, formed in 1974 at an Ellensburg, Washington gathering of farmers and concerned consumers.

Regional Tilth provided a community and framework for a prolonged conversation about the persistent issues relative to sustainable agriculture and what kind of footprint we leave for those who follow us. With chapters in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Northern California, and Idaho, regional Tilth was a conduit for some of the early discussions that have influenced local, regional and national sustainable and organic communities, policies, and practices for over 30 years. (Return to Top)

The Soil Association of the United Kingdom was founded in 1946 by a group of farmers, scientists and nutritionists who observed a direct connection between farming practice and plant, animal, human and environmental health.

Today the Soil Association is the UK's leading organic organization, with over 180 staff based in our Bristol headquarters, in regional centers and working as certification inspectors across the country.

The Soil Association exists to research, develop and promote sustainable relationships between the soil, plants, animals, people and the biosphere, in order to produce healthy food and other products while protecting and enhancing the environment. You might expect something so vital to be organized and supported by the government. But in fact the Soil Association is a charity, reliant on donations and on the support of its members and the public to carry out its work. (Return to Top)

Since 1988, the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program has helped advance farming systems that are profitable, environmentally sound and good for communities through a nationwide research and education grants program.

SARE's vision is an enduring American agriculture of the highest quality. This agriculture is profitable, protects the nation's land and water and is a force for a rewarding way of life for farmers and ranchers whose quality products and operations sustain their communities and society.

SARE's mission is to advance – to the whole of American agriculture – innovations that improve profitability, stewardship and quality of life by investing in groundbreaking research and education.

References:

• Addendum - Section includes supplementary information which may be of interest or use to the reader. The use of the Addendum and the citations and references within kennuncorked.com
• Certifying Organizations for Sustainable, Organic, Biodynamic Agriculture - List of Organization researched by kennuncorked.com

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