GLOBALG.A.P. benchmarking is the process of recognizing alignment between different farm assurance schemes or checklists and their GLOBALG.A.P. equivalents. During 2025, eight schemes across the global agriculture and floriculture sectors successfully achieved recognized status as a GLOBALG.A.P. benchmarked scheme.
Advancing industry harmonization
GLOBALG.A.P. certification is widely trusted as a sourcing requirement for many major supply chains worldwide. Harmonizing the requirements of different farm assurance schemes cuts duplication and reduces both the complexity and the cost of certification.
For producers, benchmarking enables them to achieve compliance with different standards and meet buyer requirements without undergoing separate audits for multiple standards that cover the same good agricultural practices requirements.
For scheme or checklist owners, GLOBALG.A.P. benchmarking provides international recognition in a highly competitive market. For retailers, benchmarking offers transparency on equivalent schemes and checklists to access a wider pool of suppliers.
Benchmarked schemes in 2025
A benchmarked scheme is a certification scheme using its own certification rules and own G.A.P. requirements. They are both benchmarked to the GLOBALG.A.P. normative documents and are recognized as equivalent to the relevant GLOBALG.A.P. certification rules and product-specific G.A.P. requirements (principles and criteria).
Eight schemes achieved recognition as GLOBALG.A.P. benchmarked schemes during 2025, covering the fruit and vegetables, flowers and ornamentals, and hops sectors.
While most of these schemes were rebenchmarked to version 6 of the flagship GLOBALG.A.P. Integrated Farm Assurance (IFA) standard, SIZA benchmarked to version 2 of the GLOBALG.A.P. Risk Assessment on Social Practice (GRASP) and the Sustainable Program for Irrigation and Groundwater Use (SPRING) for the first time.
| Scheme owner | Benchmarked scheme | Benchmarked to | Scheme website |
| Agrarmarkt Austria Marketing GesmbH (Austria) | AMAG.A.P. Version 2025 | IFA v6 Smart for fruit and vegetables | www.ama.at |
| Assured Food Standards (United Kingdom) | Red Tractor Fresh Produce v5.1 + GGAP | IFA v6 Smart for fruit and vegetables IFA v6 Smart for hops | www.redtractor.org.uk |
| HorticulturNew Zealande New Zealand Inc. (New Zealand) | NZGAP-Global V7.0 | IFA v6 Smart for fruit and vegetables | www.nzgap.co.nz |
| The Kenya Flower Council (Kenya) | KFC Flowers & Ornamentals Sustainability Standard Ver. April 2024 | IFA v6 Smart for flowers and ornamentals | www.kenyaflowercouncil.org |
| MPS Milieu Programma Sierteelt (Netherlands) | MPS-GAP V12 | IFA v6 Smart for flowers and ornamentals | www.my-mps.com |
| QS Qualität und Sicherheit GmbH (Germany) | QS-GAP Production/QS-GAP Erzeugung V 5.0 | IFA v6 Smart for fruit and vegetables | www.q-s.de |
| Verein SwissGAP (Switzerland) | SwissGAP Hortikultur 2024-V1 | IFA v6 Smart for flowers and ornamentals | www.swissgap.ch |
| The Sustainability Initiative of South Africa NPC (South Africa) | SIZA Social Standard Version 7.0 SIZA Environmental Standard Version 2.0 | GRASP v2 SPRING v2 | www.siza.co.za |
The full list of benchmarked schemes and checklists – as well as a step-by-step guide to the benchmarking process – can be found on the GLOBALG.A.P. website.
Related links
- Learn more about the benchmarking process and its benefits
- View the full list of GLOBALG.A.P. benchmarked schemes and checklists
- Explore GLOBALG.A.P. solutions to understand benchmarking opportunities for your scheme or checklist
