Impact and Assurance Programme

As an integral part of Sourcery’s Direct-to-Grower Programme, the Impact and Assurance Programme enables unmatched transparency, authenticity, and trust delivering regional-specific verified primary data that is collected for each individual grower enrolled in Sourcery’s Direct-to-Grower™ Programme.

The fibre and products transacted through Direct-to-Grower™ Partners value chains ensure full traceability from the farm gate to the first processing facility and beyond, ensuring chain of custody and payment to growers.

Protocol

Includes a global library of open-source (under licence) data criteria, collection methodology and verification processes to capture harmonised regional-specific data that supports all growers, everywhere.

Services

Suite of modular services to engage, train, collect, verify, and measure the commercial, social and environmental performance for growers and manufacturers.

Sourcery Connect App

Connecting growers, field staff verifiers, aggregators, and processors (gins) directly to collect and verify primary data and transact fibre with full traceability.

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Shifting the impact

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With this Programme, Sourcery aims to shift the impact paradigm by collecting primary data in a more robust, accurate, secure and equitable manner.

Verified Impact

By applying this Programme, it is possible to strengthen the authenticity of the fibre origin and materials used in products through verified primary farm-level and chain-of-custody data. The set of Protocol data criteria, collection methodology, and verification aims to inform existing standards and ‘presumptively’ comply with both existing and emerging trade regulation and sustainability reporting legislation.¹

¹Sourcery does not make any value judgments or scoring of the data. Approved Impact Assessors (AIA) can access the data (via license) to interpret, score and map data to various standards, certifications or legislation or assess any commercial, social and environmental outcomes.

Data Sovereignty

Putting data sovereignty, rights and ownership into the hands of growers, grower organisations and manufacturers. The Sourcery Connect App uses the Bluenumber® system which offers all Sourcery Partners cutting edge digital identity that protects, stores and ensures proper usage and rights to data, images and documents generated on the farm and in the value chain. The data is securely stored on the blockchain as Bluechips, which are non-fungible tokens² that safeguard the usage of the Partners' data across the value chain.

²An NFT or non-fungible token is a unique digital asset that represents ownership of digital content, such as art, music, images, documents, and data. NFTs cannot be duplicated as they have their own unique identity, and the content stored in them is securely managed on the blockchain, which proves ownership and authenticity and manages access.

Impact Equity

The Impact and Assurance Programme aims to overcome the existing challenges in sustainable agriculture and transparent trade, such as high commercial costs, disclosure risks and scaling issues. The Programme seeks to achieve this by enabling growers and manufacturers to generate more commercial value by collecting and licensing their data downstream through the Sourcery BlueChip Exchange. This data can be utilised once licensed by Sourcery Partners or third-party entities to prove the fibre and product origin and authenticate the product’s social and environmental impact.