Direct-to-Grower™

Certified

Using Connect, Partners can go a step further by earning Direct-to-Grower™ Certification—a powerful way to demonstrate that a significant portion of our Partners products and supply chains are backed by full transparency, traceability, and verified impact from grower to consumer.

Full transparency and impact you can trust from grower to consumer.

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Do you Know

Your Grower?

Direct-to-Grower™ Certification is a next-generation, digital-first standard built on verified primary data to drive impact at scale. Through the Transparent Trade and Intelligent Impact modules on the Connect Platform, this data is captured and embedded into Bluechip digital assets (pictured), delivering impact at scale that is more meaningful, measurable, trusted, and equitable.

Transparent Trade Bluechip

  • Transparent Trade

    • Processor/Gin (TT 4)

    • Spinning Mill (Yarn) (TT 2)

    • Fabric Mill (Fabric) (TT 3)

    • Assembly/CMT (TT)

    Please see Transparent Trade for more information

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Grower Essentials Bluechip

  • Grower Essentials

    • GE 1: Grower Verification

    • GE 2: Farm to Process Chain of Custody (GE 2)

    • GE 3: Grower Household and Demongraphics

    • GE 4: Grower Basic Agronomy and Practices

    Please see Intelligent Impact for more information.

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Direct-to-Grower™ Certified

  • Partners are awarded Blue, Siliver and Gold Certification by meeting the minimum volumes of fibre and materials procured and sold that contains the impact data captured via the Connect Platform.

    • Blue - Min 25 Points

    • Silver - Min 55 Points

    • Gold - Min 75 Points

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All growers

Everywhere

Direct-to-Grower™ Certified welcomes all growers, everywhere—as well as manufacturers, traders, and brands—who are committed to transforming trade for good at scale.

We believe the future of trade should recognize and reward anyone striving for commercial, social, and environmental excellence, regardless of their location, agronomic philosophy or where they are on their impact journey. With primary verified data, we focus on progress, not perfection—moving beyond the limits of traditional, one-size-fits-all standards.

All You Have To Do Is Trade.

Free with Sourcery Membership - Direct-to-Grower™ Certified comes at no extra cost—no hidden audit fees, premiums, or surprise charge—in fact it pays you.

Reward Progress, Not Perfection - Direct-to-Grower™ introduces a Blue, Silver, and Gold rating system, designed to recognize continuous improvement in a way that’s meaningful, measurable, and equitable.

No Duplicative Audits. No Delays - With Sourcery’s intelligent verification technology, there are:

  • No duplicative audits

  • No scope or transaction certificates

  • No unnecessary paperwork

  • No delays

That means you can trade smarter, grow faster, and accelerate impact at scale and focus on what matters.

Everything You Need, All in One Place.

The Connect Platform enables our Partners to simply connect, trade, capture and verify commercial, environmental, social, and transactional (‘chain-of-custody’) data in real-time.

Once you meet the minimum procurement requirements of Direct-to-Grower™ Certified (see below), we will do the rest to get you the recognition and reward for your commitment to transforming trade for good.

Get Connected Today.

Access to Connect requires Sourcery Partner membership. Learn more here.

Shifting the impact

paradigm

With Direct-to-Grower Certification, Sourcery Partners aim to shift the impact paradigm for good— intelligently transforming how we collect, verify, value, use and report on commercial, social, environmental impact using primary verified data ensuring more transparency, efficiency, interoperability and impact at scale.

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Intelligent Verification

Tired of duplicative audits, scope and transaction certificates delays, anxiety and increased costs, endless document administration that comes with of traditional standards and certification systems?

Connect’s intelligent third-party verification (TPV) methodology that uses automated data triangulation and zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) technology borrowed from the banking industry combined with traditional human-led verification by Sourcery Assurance Partners to ensure compliance, confidence and trust in your claims.

Assurance Partners

*Through advanced technology and its Assurance Partner network, Sourcery conducts is own Place Verification that includes a site, facility and process assessment at no additional cost to our Partners.

Get Direct-to-Grower™ Certified.

By being Direct-to-Grower™ Certified* you are communicating to vendors, clients, consumers and the world that you are truly transparent, trustworthy and committed to transforming trade for good.

Trade Smarter. Grow Faster. Accelerate Impact.

*Direct-to-Grower Certification is a trade, transparency and process and data collection standard. It is not a product, composition, social compliance or sustainability standard. Certification requires meeting minimum volume requirements in Sourcery and/or purchasing fibre, yarn, fabric and finished goods with corresponding Bluechip data sets.

Progress, Not Perfection

Direct-to-Grower™ Certification introduces a first-of-its-kind, point-based rating system that empowers Partners to demonstrate commercial, social, and environmental commitments using verified primary data. This approach enables Partners to track progress, make more accurate and meaningful impact claims, and build trust across the value chain.

With Sourcery, Partners can showcase real impact—without the commercial and reputational risks that often come with traditional standards, such as greenwashing, fraud, consumer confusion, or unjustified price inflation.

Minimum Scorecard Points

25+

  • Min 15% of fibre equivalent transacted with Transparent Trade (TT 1-4) Bluechips.

  • Min 5% of fibre equivalent transacted with Intelligent Impact, Grower Essentials (GE 1-2).

  • Demonstrated operational and trade excellence across min. 70% of all transactions.

  • Positive peer review among key stakeholders, vendors and clients.

Minimum Scorecard Points

55+

  • Min 35% of fibre equivalent transacted with Transparent Trade (TT 1-4) Bluechips.

  • Min 15% of fibre equivalent transacted with Intelligent Impact, , Grower Essentials (GE-1, GE 2)

  • Min 5% of fibre equivalent transacted with Intelligent Impact, with one or more Grower Solutions (LL 1-4, CE 1-4, LC 1-3).

  • Demonstrated operational and trade excellence across min. 80% of all transactions.

  • Positive peer review among key stakeholders, vendors and clients.vendors and clients.

  • +10% discount on annual membership fees.

Minimum Scorecard Points

75+

  • Min 75% of fibre equivalent transacted with Transparent Trade (TT 1-4) Bluechips.

  • Min 30% of fibre equivalent transacted with Intelligent Impact, , Grower Essentials (GE 1-4)

  • Min 15% of fibre equivalent transacted with Intelligent Impact, with one or more Grower Solutions (LL 1-4, CE 1-4, LC 1-3).

  • Demonstrated operational and trade excellence across min 90% of all transactions.

  • Positive peer review among key stakeholders, vendors and clients.

  • +20% discount on annual membership fees.

Accelerating Impact, Together

Impact Partners

As a commercially neutral sourcing and digital trade platform, Sourcery does not make value judgments, conduct analysis, apply scoring, generate reports, or make claims based the data captured through the Connect Platform or Direct-to-Grower™ Certification.

Instead, we invite and enable qualified Impact Assessors and Impact Collaborators to work with the verified impact data captured via Connect. These trusted partners are equipped to interpret, analyze, and generate claims or reports based on their professional expertise—ensuring that all insights are credible, contextual, and independently evaluated.

This approach ensures that data remains objective and transparent, while empowering experts to turn progress into insights and actionable impact.

  • Organisations and individuals qualified to access and receive grower, facility and transport data to interpret, analyse, score, and make value judgments and generates reports on behalf of Sourcery Partners.

    • Environmental impact firms

    • Social and labor impact firms

    • Carbon project developers

    • Management consultants (BCG, etc.)

    • Financial Institutions (banks, etc.)

    • Insurance Companies

    • Government and select NGOs

    • Verification agencies (see Assurance Partners)

  • Organizations that develop measurement and evaluation (M&E) frameworks and reporting systems or provide agricultural inputs, agronomy systems advisory.

    Standards and Certifications

    • Multi-stakeholder organizations

    • Standards and Certifications (BCI, etc)

    • Trade organizations

    Input and Agronomy Solutions 

    • Input Companies (Bayer, BSAF, Syngenta, etc.)

    • Private Commercial extension teams

    • Government and University extension team

    • Civil society and NGOs

    •Government extension teams

    •Civil society and NGOs

    •Private service and input suppliers (Bayer, BSAF, etc.)

*Prospective Impact Partner logos are protected under copyright. Used for demonstration purposes only and does not imply existing partnership with Sourcery.

Transform Trade 

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