Advancing Sustainable Management Systems
in Agriculture and Horticulture

Developing a sustainable management programme

You have decided to develop a specific programme to help your sector, industry or organisation to meet environmental, economic and social objectives.

Where do you start?

Developing an industry or organisation programme needs to respond to the issues that are important to the sector, reflect the drivers that have been identified and draws together many issues, which may vary in complexity. There are many questions that need to be considered as part of the development of a programme.

For instance:

• What type of programme will it need to be?
  
• What sort of development process should be used?
  
• Who should be involved in the development?
  
• What resources are available or do we need to develop new resources?
  
• What exactly should be included in the programme?
  
• What ongoing support will be required to implement a programme?

Attached is a framework to be used as an initial starting point to assist in answering these type of questions and to start you on the journey of developing a programme. Given the complexity and range of options available input from professionals maybe required for the full development of a programme.

Download Programme Parameters (

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