The Matcha Initiative
Join usBuy Regional ASEAN Products. It may not be essential in terms of carbon footprint for some products but it's essential for fresh and perishable ones. It helps to support surroundings economies and local communities, secure food supplies, raise awareness on food production and supply chain. It is also an opportunity to be more creative with well known products.
Promote your actions with the local farmers and suppliers: it benefits them and your image at the same time.
Look for regional certifications and labels. See international certifications in the additional resources below.
When sourcing products, look at all the other sustainable aspects:
Some recognized international ecolabels for fish and seafood:
Other recognized certifications for food products recommended by WWF:
For sustainable Palm Oil, support PM Haze People's Movement to Stop Haze which encourages sustainable palm oil consumption and not the Palm Oil boycott. Palm oil is, according to PM Haze, the most land efficient oil crop. Furthermore, palm oil cultivation is the livelihood of many farmers in Indonesia and Malaysia. It is, therefore, more sustainable to source Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO) produced by responsible companies which do not engage in practices such as burning and deforestation.
Quan Fa Organic Farm has been operating for more than 20 years, from a small organic vegetables retailer to one of the leading distributors in Singapore. Their produces are all sourced from the neighbouring countries of Cameron Highlands (Malaysia) and Thailand.
All the produces are organically certified. They use no pesticides or harmful fertilizers and adopted a no plastic bag policy.
Shiokfarm brings affordable and organic fruit and vegetables to families and companies in Singapore. Most of their products come by truck from Thailand, to limit the carbon footprint. They have a corporate offer "Fruit at the office" to deliver fresh fruit to companies' office every week.
Their program allows to drastically reduce food waste as their members subscribe. This system gives a much needed visibility to farmers.
ShiokFarm is proudly BCorp certified.
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The Little Rice Company is a brand owned by Golden Sunland, a responsible seed-to-table rice-growing company based in Singapore.
They partner with smallholder rice farmers in Myanmar and provide them with fair work conditions & wages through buyback schemes that ensure fairness and profits. They also use non-hazardous chemicals on the crops (EU standards).
They redesigned their rice mill operations in order to repurpose secondary waste into useful by-products and energy, guiding farmer partners on sustainable growing guidelines, upcycling rice-by products, tracking and making visible the carbon footprint of their rice production.
They are a certified B-Corporation.
