Sustainable Commodity Assistance Network

Promoting Sustainable Coffee Production through Comprehensive Market-Oriented Technical Assistance

The Sustainable Commodity Assistance Network (SCAN) aims to promote sustainability in commodity production and trade by providing a global framework for enabling management and production improvements at the producer level. More specifically, SCAN offers a set of concrete tools, training and resources for enabling producers to participate sustainably in international markets through the adoption of sound business management practices.

Background Documents

The Sustainable Commodity Assistance Network (SCAN) Creating a framework to support sustainable livelihoods for small scale producers - DRAFT (PDF - 248 kb)
The SCAN Framework document is the product of two leaders meetings held over the course of 2007 and describes the basic rationale and framework for the SCAN initiative.
The Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Board and Secretariat: Outline of Roles and Responsibilities (PDF - 22 kb)
This document describes the roles and responsibilities of the Multi-stakeholder Advisory Board and Secretariat of the SCAN initiative
Statement of Intent (PDF - 141 kb)
The statement of intent is open to signature by parties interested in joining the SCAN initiative.

The Sustainable Commodity Initiative (SCI)

The Sustainable Commodity Initiative recently launched a new Web site to highlight its activities and progress in more depth. The site includes information on the regions and sectors within which the SCI is working, project status updates, news stories, upcoming events and recent SCI publications.

Please visit the SCI's Web site.

Key SCI projects:

Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade (FAST)

The Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade (FAST) is an association of socially oriented financial service providers and other stakeholders committed to promoting improved access to finance for producers of sustainable commodities. More specifically, FAST aims to improve producer access to "small and medium enterprise trade finance" by providing a central point of contact, cooperation and information between financial service providers, producers and related stakeholders in international supply chains. To become a member of FAST or learn more, visit the FAST Web site.

» Themes

» Initiatives

» Networks and Communities

» Public Policy

» Standards and Voluntary Initiatives

» Globalization of Services

» Financing

» Technical Assistance

» Sustainable Commodity Initiative

» Sustainable Public Procurement