The second programme pillar of Sourcery’s Direct-to-Grower™ Solution, Impact and Assurance gives Partners unmatched visibility at the farm level and upstream supply chain.
Together, our Partners capture primary grower, social, environmental, facility and transaction data that is more meaningful, measureable and equitable.
Using the Sourcery Connect App growers, field staff, verifiers, aggregators, processors (gins), traders, manufacturers, brands and our impact partners can connect, collaborate, and invest together to transform trade for good.
Impact and Assurance
Solution Pillars
Protocol
Regional-specific impact modules that include scope, data criteria, collection and verification methodology to capture primary data across farms, facilities, fibre and products.
Services
Suite of modular services to engage, train, collect and verify primary data that captures the commercial, social and environmental performance of growers and manufacturers.
Impact
Once collected, primary verified data is converted into digital non-fungible tokens (NFTs) called Bluechips that are available for licensed purchase via the Bluechip Exchange data marketplace.
Impact and Assurnace
Solution
Using the Connect App, growers, extension service teams and assurance partners collect and verify primary data that is meaningful, measurable and equitable.
Grower Essentials (GE 1-4) Bluechip and Connect App ‘Places’ feature.
All primary data captured with the Connect App can be third-party verified and converted into Bluechip digital assets (non-fungible tokens). Bluechips are made available for licensed purchase (or transfer) via the forthcoming Bluechip Exchange data marketplace.
Through the the sale of Bluechips, Growers, Grower Partner organisations and Manufacturers Partners are recongised and financially rewarded for their commitment to commercial, social and environmental excellence in trade.
Protocol and Service Modules
Meaningful, Measurable and Equitable Impact
The Impact and Assurance Protocol data criteria, collection and verification methodologies were developed with the aim to support Sourcery Partners need to inform and ‘presumptively’ meet the reporting requirements of shareholders, existing and emerging regulation, international frameworks, voluntary standards and certifications and their own strategic impact objectives.
This approach is grounded in our Partner Principals—ensuring that all data is captured and verified in an inclusive, empirical, scientific, practical and equitable manner where data harmonisation, sovereignty and interoperability is not viewed as a threat to progress, but an advantage that accelerates impact by ensuring those who make measurable progress are truly recongised and rewarded for their efforts.
Sourcery invites Impact Partners to develop their own Impact and Assurance Protocols and even create their very own branded Connect Platform.
Sourcery support(s) the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Impact and Assurance Protocol scopes, data criteria and verification methodologies were developed to meet and presumptively comply with international regulation and global impact frameworks and certification.
United States Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA)
United Kingdom (UK) Modern Slavery Act 2015
European Union (EU) Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
European Union (EU) European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRSs)
European Union (EU) Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR)
European Union (EU) Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)
Digital Product Passport (DPP)
Science-Based Target (SBTs) FLAG Standard
Greenhouse Gas Protocol Land Sector and Removals & ISO 14064
United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Voluntary private standards and certifications (BCI, etc.)
Disclosure: Sustainable Development Goal (SGD) wheel and goal icons are under copyright. There use here is for demonstration purposes only and is not intended to suggest or imply a partnership, endorsement between the United Nations (UN) and Sourcery Group, Inc.
Do you Know your
Grower
Early insights and learning from Sourcery’s Impact and Assurance Programme in India and Pakistan.
Through Sourcery’s Impact and Assurance Programme, Sourcery began to collect essential data that provides a clear picture of who exactly the growers are, where their farms are located, what their households look like, understand their agro-climatic conditions, their current farming practices and pre-existing economic circumstances & transactions.
Please read the “Insight Report: Grower Essentials - Know Your Grower” to learn more about who grows your cotton.
Data Ownership, Sovereignty and Equity
Bluechip Exchange
Once capture and verified, select data (non-commercially sensitive) is converted into digital assets or non-fungible tokens (NFTs) called Bluechips that are then made available for licensed purchase via the forthcoming Sourcery Bluechip Exchange data marketplace.
Everyone from growers to brands can now be recognised and rewarded for their commitment to commercial, social and environmental excellence—this is what it means to transform trade for good.
*Graphical representation ‘Bluechips’ that will be available for purchase in the Sourcery Bluechip Marketplace coming in late late 2025 following the MY 2025/26 season. Limited data is available today.
Shifting the impact
paradigm
With Impact and Assurance, Sourcery Partners aim to shift the impact paradigm for good— transforming how we collect, verify and value commercial, social environmental impact and traceability.
Authenticity, sovereignty and data equity leads to more meaningful, measurable, and lasting impact that benefits everyone from growers to consumers.
Authenticity
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 scope, criteria, collection methodology, and verification methods aim to inform and elevate 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.
Sovereignty
Putting data sovereignty, rights and ownership into the hands of growers, grower organisations and manufacturers is critical to transforming trade for good. 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. All transactions, images and documents generated on the farm and in the value chai is stored securely stored on the blockchain as encrypted digital assets called Bluechips, which are non-fungible tokens² that safeguard access and usage and value of the Partners' data.
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 user managed access.
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 not only save on needless expense of multiple audits, reporting risk and adminstration, the Programme aims to generate more commercial value for our Partners by licensing their data downstream through the Sourcery BlueChip Exchange—data marketplace. Once licensed, BlueChip data can be utilised by Sourcery Partners or third-party entities to prove the fibre and product origin through full supply chain traceability via the BlueTrace System and authenticate the product’s commercial, social and environmental impact from grower to consumer.
Impact
Commercial, social, and environmental excellence is a byproduct of more transparent and efficient trade—this is what it means to shift the impact paradigm.
Partners who aim to report their commitments and progress to investors and shareholders (ESG), governments (regulation) and consumers or on their own can do so with more confidence and trust by having the power of empirical and scientific third-party verified data to draw from—ensuring that progress is more meaningful, measurable and profitable.
Ready to join us and shift the impact paradigm for good?
True collaboration, commitment and investment will lead to market transformation.
You are invited to join us in our mission to transform trade for good and help drive more meaningful and measurable commercial and environmental value that has a profound and positive impact from growers to consumers.
Note: The t-shirt pictured is one of a 250,000 piece order. This order required approx. 150 small holder growers and 93 metric tons of cotton fibre to produce.