Our Country Specific Standards

The Leading Harvest Farmland Management Standard – Country Specific

In April of 2025, Leading Harvest launched the Farmland Management Standard 2025. The new standard has a 12-month transition period in which existing users of the standard may continue to use (and be audited against) the country-specific standards below for the next 12 months. The new Farmland Management Standard 2025 can be found here.

Standard Revisions

In April of 2021, the Leading Harvest Board of Directors adopted a five-year revision cycle for its standards globally. Revisions will be an essential part of Leading Harvest’s own process of continual improvement and will help to ensure that its standards evolve with both societal expectations for sustainability as well as scientific and agronomic knowledge.

From August 6, 2024, to October 5, 2024, Leading Harvest held a public consultation period for the 2025 version of the Farmland Management Standard and other normative documents. Feedback may be received at any time during the year, but comments collected during the 60-day public consultation period are scrutinized by the Leading Harvest Standards Committee and other subsets of the Leading Harvest governance as part of the revision process.

In January of 2025, the Leading Harvest Board of Directors approved the Farmland Management Standard 2025. A summary of the standard revision process can be found here. A record of changes made to the Farmland Management Standard can be found here.

Questions? Reach out to info@leadingharvest.org.