bonsucro impact

Our collective impact

bonsucro impact

Our world and the sugarcane sector face many challenges and there is so much more to be done, especially around building the market for more sustainable sugarcane and recognising the hard work of producers.

Bonsucro brings together people and organisations to accelerate sustainability along the sugarcane value chain.

We would like to thank all our members for their commitment and hard work in driving progress.

Download our Outcome Report 2023

Unless mentioned otherwise, the certification impact data on this page is from the 2022-2023 production season.

Bonsucro worldwide

From Algeria to Australia, Bosnia to Barbados, we have 330 members in 54 countries*.

Whether they are smallholder farmers or international corporations, when our members join our network they commit to continuously improving their practices and transparently sharing their progress each year.

After becoming Bonsucro members, many organisations go on to become certified against our Standards.

*as of 31 March 2024

Improving the environmental impact of sugarcane

Lower use of water

Certified farms reduce water use by 42% on average within 5 years of certification.

Lower GHG emissions

Certified producers reduce GHG emissions an average of 14% within 5 years of certification.

Strengthening human rights and decent work

180,900

workers worldwide are covered by the Bonsucro Production Standard’s human rights measures.

Safer working conditions

Certified producers reduce the rate of accidents by 17% in mills and 21% in farms over 5 years of certification.

Creating value across the supply chain

18%

increase in the production of Bonsucro certified sugar

27%

increase in the production of Bonsucro certified ethanol

Previous reports

bonsucro impact outcome report 2022
bonsucro impact oucome report 2021
bonsucro impact outcome report 2020