This is a set of 6 documents comprising guidance and tools for the Women’s Empowerment indicator, for smallholder and large farm contexts.

Regulatory pressure is growing for companies to have more sustainable supply chains. Such rules have great potential. They could change the incentive structure of the market, allowing companies to overcome competition hurdles that have hampered sustainability action in the past. But beyond the right market conditions, companies also need credible solutions that enable efficient compliance with the rules and help realise the intended sustainability impacts.

The launch of ISEAL’s new membership structure marks a focus on a wider range of sustainability systems and offers new and enhanced products.

The ISEAL Code of Good Practice for Sustainability Systems v1.1 (‘the ISEAL Code’) came into effect 1 September 2025. To find out more about the development of v1.1, see here.The ISEAL Code is available in PDF and Excel format below. Read more about the ISEAL Code here.

This document contains the agreed version of the ISEAL Code v1.0. Following recommendation for by the ISEAL Technical Committee, this was approved by the ISEAL Board on 29 November 2023. When reviewed alongside the summary of feedback received during the consultation period, it demonstrates the result of how input during the consultation was taken into account.