Dutch Flower Group: Improving Wild Harvesting Practices and Transparency in the Floral Chain

October 22, 2020 Dutch Flower Group

For many years, Dutch Flower Group (DFG) is committed to make the floral chain more sustainable, through several initiatives like Floriculture Sustainability Initiative (FSI). Wild harvesting of foliage or decorative greens is currently out of scope within the FSI sustainable sourcing guidelines, because none of the approved certification schemes makes allowance for wild harvesting practices.

13 New Members Joined Floriculture Sustainability Initiative in 2019

Floriculture Sustainability Initiative is happy to present another 8 new members who joined their active network.

Next Steps FSI Beyond 2020: Engaging With Members

August 22, 2019 Union Fleurs

Currently FSI members are focusing all their efforts towards achieving the 90% target in the coming one-and-a-half year. 2020 will come fast enough and it is crucial that they also prepare for after 2020, to have clear and common objectives moving forward.

Royal FloraHolland: “Inspire People to Produce Sustainably”

April 12, 2019 Royal FloraHolland

FleuraMetz is a global wholesaler for flowers, plants and accessories. The company’s focus is on florists. The wholesaler is a member of Floriculture Sustainability Initiative (FSI) and is one of the Accelerators. “We recognize that we have an impact on the environment and take responsibility for this.” That is what sustainability is, according to Susanne van der Mark. The Corporate Social Responsibility Officer shares her vision and explains how FleuraMetz cooperates to achieve sustainability.

Floriculture Sustainability Initiative: Strengthening the Basket of Standards to Reflect Good Practices

April 4, 2019 Union Fleurs

Introduced at the FSI General Assembly on 24 January in Essen, the next steps for theFSI basket of Standards will be to gradually include additional environmental benchmarking criteria with an emphasis on reliable data and record-keeping.