Sustainability information at a glance
The GRAS Tool+ is an interactive platform that provides relevant sustainability information such as biodiversity, land use change, carbon stock, and social indices available. Users can conduct customized and transparent sustainability risk assessments, helping their companies comply with new standards, certification systems and upcoming regulations.
Empower your sustainability initiatives with GRAS Tool+
The GRAS Tool+ offers a comprehensive view of sustainability insights at a glance, now enhanced with a range of advanced features and an improved user experience.
It is designed to help companies, organizations or the private sector easily manage their environmental and social impacts while navigating the complexities of sustainability reporting and compliance. With a focus on key sustainability challenges, the GRAS Tool+ delivers critical information that empowers businesses to make informed decisions and take meaningful actions.
The core of GRAS Tool+ is based on four essential pillars of sustainability: Biodiversity, Land Use Change, Carbon Stock, and Social Indices. Users can analyze their geolocations against diverse criteria within these pillars through an array of specialized layers. These focus areas address the most pressing issues facing sustainable agriculture and provide users with an in-depth understanding of the risks within their supply chains, summarized in a comprehensive report.
Key features
Discover the key features of GRAS Tool+ which offers valuable benefits through its diverse layers, providing insights into ecosystems for better protection and enhancement of biodiversity, and its carbon stock feature, which aids in monitoring and managing carbon levels to mitigate climate change. Additionally, the tool simplifies social impact assessments with social indices and tracks land use changes to support sustainable management and reduce deforestation risks. These and other features make GRAS Tool+ an indispensable resource for achieving sustainability goals and meeting compliance requirements effectively.
Interactive Sustainability Maps and Global Monitoring
The GRAS Tool+ offers interactive maps to monitor sustainability efforts, enabling analysis of environmental and social impacts. Users can explore regions, assess risks, and make data-driven decisions for sustainable development.
GRAS Index
The GRAS Risk Index lets users compare sustainability risks across regions efficiently. This tool highlights high-risk areas, supports resource optimization, and enables informed decision-making to implement sustainable practices for long-term benefits.
Social Risks
The GRAS Tool+ maps social risks like modern slavery, human development, and other GRAS social criteria. These help companies identify high-risk regions, meet due diligence requirements, and implement informed, sustainable strategies effectively.
Food Security Indices
GRAS Tool+ integrates vital food and nutrition indices, including the Global Hunger Index, nutritional data, and acute food insecurity classifications. These tools provide an overview of hunger trends and nutritional challenges, aiding global food security efforts.
Global Fire Monitoring and Alerts
The GRAS Tool+ offers real-time fire monitoring and sends alerts within 24 hours of major fires in monitored areas. This ensures swift disaster responses, helping minimize damage, reduce risks, and protect affected regions and ecosystems effectively.
GRAS Risk Assessment Reports
The GRAS Tool+ generates detailed risk reports tailored to specific sourcing areas. Users can upload plantation outlines to assess challenges, enabling effective strategies to mitigate sustainability risks and ensure compliance within supply chains.
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How to get started
Visualize your sustainability analysis using the GRAS Tool+ by simply following the steps:
Select your country of choice
To start visualizing your layers, choose your preferred country, setting the foundation for a tailored analysis of sustainability risks specific to that region.
Visualize your sustainability layers
Using the layers panel on the left, visualize the various sustainability layers available for your selected region. These layers provide insights into various environmental and social factors, helping you assess and understand sustainability risks more effectively.
Additionally, generate a fully automated sustainability assessment report based on predefined set of datasets (No-Go areas, High Carbon areas, Land-Use Change and GRAS Social Factor) and conduct analysis on your location of choice, uploading a kml and selecting an area of interest.
Explore sustainability risks with a case study
Using the panel on the right, create a case study, providing real-world context and enhancing your understanding of the challenges and opportunities within the selected region
Generate your GRAS risk sustainability report
Finalize your case to access the biodiversity report (free) or buy the comprehensive report, providing a comprehensive analysis of the predefined sustainability risks, tailored to your selected region.
Further Information
Frequently asked questions
The FAQs have been compiled to provide a quick overview of possible open questions.
For further and more in-depth information, the GRAS Tool+ user guide has been developed, which contains all the important information about the GRAS Tool+ and its functions.
User Guide
To enhance your experience with GRAS Tool+, we invite you to start by reading our user-friendly guide. This guide is designed to help you navigate through the features and functionalities of the tool with ease, offering step-by-step instructions and useful tips. Click the button below to access the user guide and begin your journey with GRAS Tool+.
Data Sources
GRAS provides relevant sustainability information about biodiversity, carbon stock, land use change and social issues on global, regional, national and sub-national level. The data is carefully being selected based on the criteria of content, source, quality, format and availability.
Methodology
GRAS provides relevant sustainability information about biodiversity, carbon stock, land use change and social issues. Each data source is carefully selected and the collected data is thoroughly processed and evaluated, according to the needs of our users. The GRAS Index unites sustainability indicators into one comprehensive score to support the risk assessment of agricultural products and their sustainable origin.
Dataset Updates
Regular updates with new countries added for more comprehensive coverage and latest data on sustainability criteria.