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This Handbook is intended to be a
practical guide to help companies in the crop production
industry develop and implement an environmental and social
management system, which should help to improve overall
operations. If a company has existing management systems
for quality or health and safety, this Handbook will help to
expand them to include environmental and social performance.
Sections I and II provide background on environmental and
social management systems (ESMS) in the crop production
industry. Section III provides step-by-step instructions on
how to develop and implement an ESMS. The ESMS Toolkit and
Case Studies give tools to help develop and implement the
systems described in the Handbook, and presents two case
studies on companies in the crop production industry that
implemented ESMS.
