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Standards development

During 2025, Regenagri’s standards team focused on improving the overall structure, clarity, and usability of our regenerative agriculture standards, while ensuring that requirements remained aligned with stakeholder expectations, industry developments, and evolving regulatory frameworks.
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This work involved a comprehensive revision of the Regenagri standards framework.


It included updates to:

  • Regenagri Chain of Custody technical guidance for food and textiles
  • Regenagri Standard – Farms Version 3.3
  • Regenagri Content Standard
  • Regenagri Claims requirements and supporting technical guidance documents

These updates were published in August 2025 and came into effect in January 2026.

The revisions introduced clarifications around certification processes, audit requirements and timelines, as well as improved guidance on transaction certificates and remote audits.  

Additional requirements were introduced regarding:  

  • Senior management responsibilities
  • Supplier approval and due diligence processes
  • Animal welfare expectations for first processors
  • Waste management and chemical control requirements.

These new requirements aim to provide a more robust operational framework while also improving:

  • Consistency across the audit process
  • Certification decision-making
  • Product integrity
  • Requirements related to supply chain responsibilities.

The updates closely align Regenagri standards with evolving market expectations and upcoming regulatory developments, including the EU's Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive.

These standards added quantifiable criteria behind companies’ regenerative claims.

Together, the following new and revised standards provide a more comprehensive framework for assessing and verifying the positive impacts of regenerative agriculture, ensuring greater traceability and environmental stewardship across supply chains.

Significant improvements in transparency and credibility
The 2025 updates improved transparency, accessibility and usability. They also strengthened assurance credibility and established clearer expectations for our certified partners, consumers, certification bodies, and other stakeholders.
Valuable feedback from our stakeholders
We thank our partners who supported the process by providing invaluable, constructive feedback that led to these successful updates.

Their engagement provided useful insights into market trends, stakeholder expectations, and industry benchmarks and also continues to play an important role in shaping our long-term standards development strategy.
Updated Regenagri Insetting Standard

To accompany the launch of our Carbon Insetting Platform, we published the updated Regenagri Insetting Standard. This standard sets requirements for risk assessment, integrity, quantification and transaction of carbon insetting units.  

Among other important improvements, two major additions to this standard were:  

  1. The inclusion of ‘Farms Benefit sharing’ rules. This ensures a guaranteed minimum percentage of revenue from the sale of insetting units is transferred directly back to participating farms. 
  1. An innovative performance-based and regenerative-tailored approach to test additionality (called Innovative Regenerative Practice) and Dynamic Additionality Benchmark (DAB).
On the horizon: Version 4.0 of Regenagri standard for farms  

Looking ahead to 2026, our focus will be a full update of Regenagri standards. The first step will be to finalise and release the new version of Regenagri Standard – Farms 4.0, and related documentation.  

This will be followed by the reshaping and improvement of our assurance framework and the system behind our certification schemes.

Finally, we will work on restructuring the Chain of Custody certification scheme to further streamline the framework for supply chain partners.

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