Would Your Farm Animal Welfare Practices and Performance Stand Up to Scrutiny?
Chronos’s Farm Animal Welfare Readiness Assessment helps companies prepare for and respond to scrutiny from investors, NGOs, regulators and customers.
Farm animal welfare has steadily become one of the more exposed areas of food companies’ sustainability strategies. Investors want evidence that supply chain welfare risk is being actively managed. NGOs publish rankings that compare companies on their commitments and their progress against them. Regulators are tightening what businesses can say about their practices without evidence behind it. And consumers expect companies to ensure that the farm animals in their supply chains are treated humanely.
The question food companies now face is whether they can demonstrate, convincingly, that they are managing farm animal welfare effectively.
To answer it, companies need to know:
Where they are exposed to farm animal welfare risks and opportunities
What systems and processes they have in place to manage them
How effectively those systems are working and what outcomes they deliver
They also need evidence that reassures customers that farm animal welfare is managed responsibly and effectively.
What you gain
The Farm Animal Welfare Readiness Assessment answers those questions and gives you the evidence to respond credibly to investors, regulators, NGOs and customers. It provides an evidence-based assessment of your policies, practices and performance using the framework developed for the Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare (BBFAW), widely regarded as the world’s leading assessment of company practice and performance on farm animal welfare. It shows you where you are strong and where you are exposed, and our feedback sets out what credible, effective action to close the gaps looks like.
What makes this worth doing?
Comparable. Trained BBFAW assessors conduct the assessment in line with the BBFAW methodology, so your results compare directly with those of companies covered by the BBFAW.
Independent. Results are objective, not a self-assessment.
Confidential. You decide how to use the results and how quickly to act on the findings.
Tailored. Our farm animal welfare and business specialists manage the process, so the insights reflect your business context and needs.
Flexible. You define the scope, from your whole company to specific brands, segments or geographies, and you can commission the assessment once or repeat it over time.
Wherever you are starting from
If you are formalising your approach, the assessment gives you a credible framework to build against. If you have an established management system, it lets you review it strategically against current industry practice. If you are already in the core BBFAW Benchmark, it keeps you current in the gap year created by the move to a biennial cycle and prepares you for the 2027 assessments. If you sit further along the value chain, it helps you show B2B customers and consumers that welfare standards are well managed.
To find out more, please contact Katherine Button, Programme Manager at secretariat@bbfaw.com
