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ProTerra Foundation

General Information

Identification Code: 903449238027-58
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Entity Form: Non-profit Foundation
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 5/5/2020
Last Update: 2/29/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0

Mission & Interests

Goals: The ProTerra Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation that advances and promotes sustainability at all levels of the feed and food production system. A commitment to full transparency and traceability throughout the supply chain and concern for corporate social responsibility and the potential detrimental impact of herbicide-resistant, genetically modified crops on ecosystems and biodiversity is at the heart of everything we do. The ProTerra Foundation’s mission is to be a global network of businesses supporting more sustainable agricultural practices, in the food and feed supply chains, where relevant the conversion to non-GMOs and full respect of workers and communities’ dignity. We envisage a world where all businesses contribute to the protection of biodiversity by switching to sustainable production, conserve natural resources and ensure that local communities are treated with dignity and respect.
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
  • Agriculture and rural development
  • Climate action
  • Consumers
  • Education and training
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Food safety
  • International co-operation and development
  • Research and innovation
Levels of Interest:
  • global

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: Member of Agricultural Expert Groups, such as the Environmental Footprint Technical Advisory Board or the Multi-Stakeholder Platform on Protecting and Restoring the World’s Forests, including the EUTR and FLEGT Regulation. Non-GMO activities through the membership of the ENGA https://www.enga.org/ ENGA represents national non-GMO industries and economic operators (agriculture, food and feed processing, retail, certification) as a single European association. Starting from Ocotber 2021 Emese van Maanen is representing ProTerra in the ENGA as a board member.
Communication Activities: Our activities connected to LCA: We create dialogues to fight against LUC and engage companies to become more sustainable: https://www.proterrafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/proterra-environmental-footprint-proterra-01i-2.pdf We launched a CO2 calculation project to help organisations investing in sustainability and certification to differentiate from non-certified material: https://www.proterrafoundation.org/news/carbon-footprint-calculation-project-main-outcomes/ An update of the project was published in September 2023: https://www.proterrafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/proterra-environmental-footprint-proterra-01i-2.pdf Since December 2019 ProTerra publishes specific water and CO2 footprint calculations. Our goal is to provide primary data to have more accurate emission calculations and later share these with the GFLI database. Articles related to this topic can be found: https://www.proterrafoundation.org/project/carbon-footprint-calculation-project/ https://www.proterrafoundation.org/project/creating-a-dialogue-with-the-aquaculture-industry-on-responsible-soy-learn-more-about-this-recent-meeting-held-in-brazil/ https://www.proterrafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/proterra-environmental-footprint-proterra-01i-2.pdf ENGA: https://www.proterrafoundation.org/news/european-non-gmo-industry-association-enga-founded/
EU Supported Forums and Platforms: Environmental Footprint Technical Advisory Board#E03710#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3710 #MEMBER #C#Civil society#Industry
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: Climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development

Head Office

Address: Goeman Borgesiuslaan 77, 3515 ET
City: Utrecht
Country: NETHERLANDS
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EU Office

Address: Goeman Borgesiuslaan 77, 3515 ET
City: Utrecht
Country: NETHERLANDS
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Financial Data

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Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 0
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 1
Members: 2
Members F T E: 1.75
Info Members: We work with 2 additional consultants every month

Structure

Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: https://www.proterrafoundation.org/pro-terra-networks/
Organisation Members: Founding member of the Collaborative Soy Initiative:https://www.thecollaborativesoyinitiative.info/ We are also a board member of the European non-GMO Association (ENGA) Member in the Amsterdam Declaration Partnership and National initiatves (UK, France, Germany, Switzerland etc.) Associate member VLOG and ARGE Norwegian MRV Project: https://www.proterrafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/cms_files_80489_1687031085ProTerra_MRV_Final_17-05.pdf Working together with FEFAC and other international organisations (benchmarks, dialogues, creating stakeholder engagement)