Direct-to-Grower™
Certified
Through the Sourcery Solution, Partners can go a step further by earning Direct-to-Grower™ Certification—a powerful way to demonstrate that a significant portion of your supply chain and products are backed by full transparency, traceability, and verified impact from grower to consumer.
Full transparency and impact you can trust from grower to consumer.
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Do you Know
Your Grower?
Direct-to-Grower™ Certification introduce a next-generation, digital-first standard framework where primary verified data captured through the Transparent Trade and Impact and Assurance modules via the Connect Platform.
Relying on data found in Bluechip digital assets (see below), Partners can rely on data that is more meaningful, measurable, trusted and equitable impact at scale—benefitting everyone from grower to consumer.
Transparent Trade Bluechip
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Transparent Trade
Processor/Gin (TT 4)
Spinning Mill (Yarn) (TT 2)
Fabric Mill (Fabric) (TT 3)
Assembly/CMT (TT)
Please see Transparent Trade for more information
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Grower Essentials Bluechip
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Grower Essentials
GE 1: Grower Verification
GE 2: Farm to Process Chain of Custody (GE 2)
GE 3: Grower Household and Demongraphics
GE 4: Grower Basic Agronomy and Practices
Please see Impact and Assurance for more information.
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Direct-to-Grower™ Certified
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Blue - Min 25 Points
Silver - Min 55 Points
Gold - Min 75 Points
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All growers
Everywhere
Direct-to-Grower™ Certified welcomes all growers, everywhere—as well as manufacturers, traders, and brands—who are committed to transforming trade for good.
We believe the future of trade should recognize and reward anyone striving for commercial, social, and environmental excellence, regardless of agronomy or where they are on their impact journey. With primary verified data, we focus on progress, not perfection—moving beyond the limits of traditional, one-size-fits-all standards.
All You Have To Do Is Trade
Reward Progress, Not Perfection - Direct-to-Grower™ introduces a Blue, Silver, and Gold rating system, designed to recognize continuous improvement in a way that’s meaningful, measurable, and equitable.
Free with Sourcery Membership - Direct-to-Grower™ Certified comes at no extra cost—no hidden audit fees, premiums, or surprise charges.
No Duplicative Audits. No Delays - With Sourcery’s intelligent verification technology, there are:
No duplicative audits
No scope or transaction certificates
No unnecessary paperwork
No delays
That means you can trade smarter, grow faster, and accelerate impact at scale and focus on what matters.
Everything You Need, All in One Place
The Connect Platform enables our Partners to simply connect, trade, capture and verify commercial, environmental, social, and transactional (‘chain-of-custody’) data in real-time.
Once you meet the minimum procurement requirements of Direct-to-Grower™ Certified, we will do the rest to get you the recognition and reward for your commitment to transforming trade for good.
Get Connected Today.
Access to Connect requires Sourcery Partner membership. Learn more here.
Shifting the impact
paradigm
With Direct-to-Grower Certification, Sourcery Partners aim to shift the impact paradigm for good— intelligently transforming how we collect, verify, value, use and report on commercial, social, environmental impact using primary verified data ensuring more transparency, efficiency, interoperability and impact at scale.
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Intelligent Verification
Tired of duplicative audits, scope and transaction certificates delays, anxiety and increased costs, endless document administration that comes with of traditional standards and certification systems?
Connect’s intelligent third-party verification (TPV) methodology that uses automated data triangulation and zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) technology borrowed from the banking industry combined with traditional human-led verification by Sourcery Assurance Partners to ensure compliance, confidence and trust in your claims.
Assurance Partners
*Through advanced technology and its Assurance Partner network, Sourcery conducts is own Place Verification that includes a site, facility and process assessment at no additional cost to our Partners.
Get Direct-to-Grower™ Certified.
By being Direct-to-Grower™ Certified* you are communicating to vendors, clients, consumers and the world that you are truly transparent, trustworthy and committed to transforming trade for good.
Trade Smarter. Grow Faster. Accelerate Impact.
*Direct-to-Grower Certification is a trade, transparency and process and data collection standard. It is not a product, composition, social compliance or sustainability standard. Certification requires meeting minimum volume requirements in Sourcery and/or purchasing fibre, yarn, fabric and finished goods with corresponding Bluechip data sets.
Progress, Not Perfection
Direct-to-Grower™ Certification introduces a first-of-its-kind, point-based rating system that empowers Partners to demonstrate commercial, social, and environmental commitments using verified primary data. This approach enables Partners to track progress, make more accurate and meaningful impact claims, and build trust across the value chain.
With Sourcery, Partners can showcase real impact—without the commercial and reputational risks that often come with traditional standards, such as greenwashing, fraud, consumer confusion, or unjustified price inflation.
Progress you can measure. Claims you can trust.
Minimum Scorecard Points
25+
Min 15% of fibre equivalent transacted with Transparent Trade (TT 1-4) Bluechips.
Min 5% of fibre equivalent transacted with Impact and Assurance, Grower Essentials (GE 1-2).
Demonstrated operational and trade excellence across min. 70% of all transactions.
Positive peer review among key stakeholders, vendors and clients.
Minimum Scorecard Points
55+
Min 35% of fibre equivalent transacted with Transparent Trade (TT 1-4) Bluechips.
Min 15% of fibre equivalent transacted with Impact and Assurance, Grower Essentials (GE-1, GE 2)
Min 5% of fibre equivalent transacted with Impact and Assurance with one or more Grower Solutions (LL 1-4, CE 1-4, LC 1-3).
Demonstrated operational and trade excellence across min. 80% of all transactions.
Positive peer review among key stakeholders, vendors and clients.vendors and clients.
Minimum Scorecard Points
75+
Min 75% of fibre equivalent transacted with Transparent Trade (TT 1-4) Bluechips.
Min 30% of fibre equivalent transacted with Impact and Assurance, Grower Essentials (GE 1-4)
Min 15% of fibre equivalent transacted with Impact and Assurance with one or more Grower Solutions (LL 1-4, CE 1-4, LC 1-3).
Demonstrated operational and trade excellence across min 90% of all transactions.
Positive peer review among key stakeholders, vendors and clients.
Accelerating Impact, Together
Impact Partners
As a commercially neutral sourcing and digital trade platform, Sourcery does not make value judgments, conduct analysis, apply scoring, generate reports, or make claims based the data captured through the Connect Platform or Direct-to-Grower™ Certification.
Instead, we invite and enable qualified Impact Assessors and Impact Collaborators to work with the verified impact data captured via Connect. These trusted partners are equipped to interpret, analyze, and generate claims or reports based on their professional expertise—ensuring that all insights are credible, contextual, and independently evaluated.
This approach ensures that data remains objective and transparent, while empowering experts to turn progress into insights and actionable impact.
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Organisations and individuals qualified to access and receive farm and facility data to interpret, analyse, score, and make value judgments and generates reports on behalf of Sourcery Partners.
•Environmental impact firms (LCAs providers)
•Social and labor impact firms
•Carbon Project Developers
•Government and NGOs
•Verification agencies (select)
•Financial Institutions & more
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Organizations that develop measurement and evaluation (M&E) frameworks and reporting systems or provide agri-cultural inputs, direct extension services, training, support toto growers, manufacturers, traders and brands.
Standards and Services
•Multi-stakeholder organizations
•Standards and Certifications
•Trade organizations
Agronomy and Inputs
•University extension teams
•Government extension teams
•Civil society and NGOs
•Private service and input suppliers (Bayer, BSAF, etc.)
*Prospective Impact Partner logos are protected under copyright. Used for demonstration purposes only and does not imply existing partnership with Sourcery.