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Achieving Social License in Agriculture
AAEA, Radisson Hotel, Red Deer, April 30, 2015
Sean Royer, Exec Director Environmental Stewardship Division Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development
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Introduction
1.Definition of social license
2.Drivers of Change
3.Industry Response
4.Next steps
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Social License
Definition: The privilege of operating with minimal formalized restrictions (legislation, regulation, or market requirements) based on maintaining public trust by doing what’s right. Public Trust: A belief that activities are consistent with social expectations and the values of the community and other stakeholders.
* Centre for Food Integrity
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Compliance Markets (eg. GHG) Retail Markets (eg. Sustainable beef)
• Regulatory based • Command & Control. Regs inflexible • Regs are minimum requirements • No trust • Usually one component – GHG, air
quality, water quality, wetlands • Paper trail and line of sight for
everything • Rigorous data check every year • Government oversight • Public policy guided
• Consumer based • Flexible, growing & improving system • Guidelines for improvement • Trust • Production system + supply chain
integration • Accepting of common business
practice. • Assurance that the system is in place • Private sector industry oversight • Private policy guided
>>>>>….. ? ? ? ?
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Drivers of Change
1.Changing Consumer
2.Role of NGOs
3.Changing Definition of Business
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Food Pyramid According to the Water Footprint
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Lean Finely Textured Beef
• Product in market for decades • Scientifically proven process • Long-standing media interest • 2008 – LFTB featured in Food,
Inc. • April 2011 – Jamie Oliver • March 2012 – ABC News • Tied to school lunch program • Pink Slime goes viral • Increased pressure on
brands to remove/label
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Know very little or nothing of farming, 47%
Know a little, 45%
Consider themselves
knowledgeable, 7%
Source: “Study of Canadian attitudes towards food and farming 2012” Ipsos Reid
Note: Does not add up to 100% due to rounding
Canadian’s Knowledge of Farming
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Conflicting Philosophical Frameworks
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Significant Social Shifts* (Centre for Food Integrity)
MODERN (Before 1968)
• Authority is granted by office • Broad social consensus driven
by WASP males • Communication is formal,
indirect (mass communication) • Progress is inevitable * Centre for Food Integrity
POST-MODERN (After 1968)
• Authority is granted by relationship
• No single social consensus, great diversity, many voices
• Communication is informal, direct (masses of communicators)
• Progress is possible
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Consolidation, Integration and Industrialization
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Who Do They Believe - Environment
43%
45%
53%
55%
58%
59%
63%
36%
65%
61%
59%
69%
74%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80%
Env Advocacy Group
Farmer's Assoc.
Gov't Env. Researcher
David Suzuki
Farmer/Rancher
Env Engineer
University Env-Sci Professor
Believability: Environment
200620092012
Source: “Study of Canadian attitudes towards food and farming 2012” Ipsos Reid
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Who Do They Believe – Animal Welfare
31%
44%
47%
57%
59%
59%
77%
30%
50%
60%
65%
68%
66%
86%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Other Animal Rights
Farmer Assoc
Gov't Agency (Food/Farm)
A humane society
Farmer/rancher
Unversity Animal-Sci…
Veterinarian
Believability: Animal Welfare
2006
2009
2012
Source: “Study of Canadian attitudes towards food and farming 2012” Ipsos Reid
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Food/Farming Information Sources
Source: “Study of Canadian attitudes towards food and farming 2012” Ipsos Reid
28%
36%
39%
40%
46%
61%
61%
0% 10%20%30%40%50%60%70%
Government Agencies
Animal Right/Welfare…
Environmental Advocacy…
Humane Societies
Grocery Store/Retailer
Farmers
Friends/Family/Word of Mouth
Favourable Impressions: (Please rate your impressions of the different groups)
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Consumers are Tribal* • The past matters. • Perception is reality. (Not necessarily accurate.) • Challenging beliefs/perceptions core to one’s
identity could cause them to become defensive & dismissive.
* Centre for Food Integrity
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The “Mom Tribe” Consumer Panel*
What information sources have you used to come to your conclusions that GMOs are dangerous?
Heidi: “I’m part of a moms group. When there is a big consensus, I think ‘there’s something here.’ You don’t need doctors or scientists confirming it when you have hundreds of moms.”
* source: Centre for Food Integrity
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Earning and Maintaining Social License (Sapp/CMA)
Confidence
Influential Others
Competence
Value Similarity
Social License
Trust
Freedom to Operate
• Source: Centre for Food Integrity. • Trust research was published in December, 2009 – Journal of Rural Sociology
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Shared values are 3-5X more important in building trust than demonstrating competence
What Drives Consumer Trust?
Source: Centre for Food Integrity Trust research was published in December, 2009 – Journal of Rural Sociology
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Perfect Storm
•Removed consumer but who wants to know • Increase in technology •Resource constraints •Lots of research pointing out the negative not
so much on the positive •Sustainability action plans
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NGO Lobbying and Advocacy
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government regulation
voluntary standards
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“Capitalism is under siege … The purpose of a business must be redefined
around creating shared value (CSV)… How to reinvent capitalism—and
unleash a wave of innovation and growth” Porter and Kramer, HBR Jan-Feb 2011
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CAPITALISM 2.0 Capitalism 1.0 Capitalism 2.0
Purpose of the Firm Maximize shareholder value; ROI; Growth
Creating shared stakeholder value, including the Environment
Legitimate capitals Financial Financial, Natural, Human, Social
Bottom lines Profit -first Profit, People, Planet
Environmental and social impacts
Externalized Internalized
Accountability boundaries
The Firm The Firm’s value chain, over its products’ life cycles
Transparency As little as possible Naked
Business model Take-Make-Waste; Linear Borrow-Use-Return; Circular
Source of financial capital
Stock market; Big financial institutions; Absentee owners
Stock market; Smaller financial institutions; Customers; Employees; Local communities
Market focus Global Local
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CEOs’ SUSTAINABILITY DRIVERS
UN Global Compact and Accenture study, survey of 766 worldwide CEOs, June 2010
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50%
69%
72%
88%
93%
96%
… embedded in supply chains
… acted upon by boards
Sustainability should be … fully embedded in strategies and
operations
2010 2007UN Global Compact and Accenture study, survey of 766 worldwide CEOs, June 2010
CEO MINDSET IS SHIFTING
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Industry Response
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Environmental Labels
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Beef Value Chain Roundtable - Sustainability Jeffrey Fitzpatrick-Stilwell Manager, Sustainability and Government Relations McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada Ltd
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Food Processors are Also Setting Targets
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Other international Developments… Phasing in mandatory sustainability requirements for its suppliers; by 2020 it will source 100% of its agricultural raw materials from suppliers who meet established sustainability metrics.
Will begin sourcing sustainable beef in Canada by 2016.
Focused on water, nutrition and rural development
Quality, responsibility, mutuality, efficiency, and freedom
Require suppliers to disclose carbon emissions as part of updated sustainability plans
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How Does Primary Agriculture take back the conversation??
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Global Round Table for Sustainable Beef
The Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB) is a global, multi-stakeholder initiative with a mission to advance continuous improvement in the sustainability of the global beef value chain through leadership, science and multi-stakeholder engagement and collaboration
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Some of the members….
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GRSB 5 Principles of Sustainable Beef 1.Natural Resources
2.People and Community
3.Animal Health and Welfare
4.Food
5.Efficiency and Innovation
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Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef
Who are they? • A national, multi-stakeholder initiative developed to
advance existing and new sustainability efforts within the industry.
• An informal group made up of interested parties
• Is meant to complement the GRSB by applying its global principles to the Canadian beef industry.
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Initial meeting participants
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What have They done?
• Met in July, 2013 in Calgary and recently in Kelowna
• Determining how to apply the GRSB 5 principles to Canada
• Looking at verification or certification models to implement for the Canadian Beef industry.
• Discussing the governance structure of the roundtable.
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McDonald’s Pilot
• Working with a few producers to determine how to adapt sustainability principles on the farm.
• Developing metrics on sustainability. • Has formed a McDonald’s pilot advisory committee and
steering committee
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Canadian Round Table for Sustainable Crops
• Exactly the same as CRSB.
• First meeting in Winnipeg in March 2014. Next meeting in November.
• Governance structure and operating principles identical to CRSB.
• Technical committee applying for Growing Forward
funding to gain a better understanding of metrics that can be used to measure sustainability.
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Initial meeting participants
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Others… • Dairy Farmers of Canada ProAction initiative • Pilot study by Alberta Barley, Wheat, Pulse, and Canola
• Canadian Field print initiative (Pepsico, Unilever, Walmart)
• Alberta Pulse Growers – Carbon footprint
• Canadian Canola Growers Association – Meeting EU requirements
for bio-fuel.
• Alberta Potato Growers – sustainability requirements of Frito Lay
• Egg Producers – Sustainability strategy
• Food Processors - integrating sustainability into their operation.
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March March 12 Leduc
ARD Hosted a Social License Conference
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Lessons Learned • Certification/verification standards should be developed with input
from the entire supply chain. • Audit of these standards should be done by an independent third
party. • Those who manage data well will be successful.
• Innovation and science will be a key driver. (e.g. Science to support
certification/verification standards, new BMPs, etc.) • Extension will become essential to evolve producers and processors
from current state to a more sustainable state.
• May need a professional body to do verification and certification.
• Commodity organizations will have to “up their communication game.”
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What can Producers Do?
1. Influence major food companies (e.g. how do you make it low cost for your industry?) 2. Promote their industry in partnership with food companies. 3. Develop metrics with food companies that make sense.
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What can Research Community Do?
1.Data will be King. How do we manage it?
2.MIT, Harvard, many others graduating MBAs with sustainability component.
3.Modeling, quality control
4.Science behind certification standards.
5.Science behind Best/better management practices
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Questions and Discussion