page_title: Eosta
section_title: Sustainability Flower
hierarchical_section_title: Eosta / Sustainability Flower
caption_attribution_description: English: The Sustainability Flower, a model for ecological and social sustainability, linked to the SDG's. This model was developed and is used by companies including Eosta (Netherlands), Soil &amp; More Impacts (Germany) and SEKEM (Egypt).
context_page_description: Eosta is a multinational enterprise, based in the Netherlands, working in the field of organic food. The company is specialised in import, export and distribution of fresh organic fruits and vegetables. Eosta imports overseas fruits from Africa, South America, Oceania, Asia and North America. The company sometimes takes an activist stance; in 2016 its CEO, Volkert Engelsman, accused leading Dutch supermarkets of "criminal behaviour" in a daily newspaper. In 2017, he was elected Most Influential Sustainability Voice of the Netherlands, in a yearly sustainability top-100 list by newspaper Trouw, who called him "a greengrocer with a radical vision". In 2018, Eosta won a European Business Award for the Environment for its True Cost of Food campaign, an awareness campaign about True Cost Accounting in food and agriculture.
context_section_description: The Sustainability Flower is the model for sustainability that Eosta uses to, as they say, "measure, manage, market and monetise" the impact of production on natural capital and social capital. Other companies in the organic field such as SEKEM and Soil & More Impacts use the same model. The Sustainability Flower has seven petals which each stand for a different aspect of ecological and social sustainability, like climate or biodiversity. These are evaluated by Key Point Indicators based on GRI standards. The Sustainability Flower is used to assess the performance of organic farmers and growers. Subsequently, True Cost Accounting is used to put a monetary value to these impacts.
caption: The Sustainability Flower, Eosta's integrated sustainability model, linked to SDG's
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