Fairfood has compiled a sustainability agenda which handles 25 issues rooted in three conceptual aspects of sustainability: the social, environmental and economic aspects. All the issues are related to hunger and poverty, and are based on international conventions, agreements, and norms.

Inclusive

Fairfood’s sustainability agenda is inclusive in that it not only covers social and environmental issues but also the so-called “forgotten” economic and other issues essential to address for sustainable trade, such as tax avoidance, misuse of transfer-pricing, corruption and market-distorting subsidies.

Relation to Strategy

Fairfood asks food and beverage brand owners to increase the sustainability level of their brand products, focusing specifically on the brand product's main ingredient. Fairfood studies these ingredients as sectors. Each sector has been assigned priority issues. 

Priority Issues

Fairfood encourages brand owners to focus on these priority issues concerning the main ingredient when making their brand products more sustainable. During Fairfood’s assurance procedure, brand owners are encouraged to provide sufficient information on the sustainability level of their main ingredient or sector of their brand products. They are also asked to provide some form of evidence  that some or all of the designated priority issues for the specific ingredient or sector are actually being addressed.