BSI - Technical Working Groups

Better Sugarcane Initiative

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Stop Press - Technical Working Group Members Announced 22/08/08

Processing and Milling

•	Royce Bishop, Chair of Mackay Whitsunday Natural Resource Management Group Inc. and Consulting Project Engineer, Mackay Sugar Co-Operative, Australia.
•	Simon Houghton Dodd, Tate + Lyle, England.
•	Tere Johnson, QC Manager & Chief Chemist, and Jose Alvarez, Sugar Cane Growers Coop of Florida, USA.
•	Andre Elia Neto, CTC, Brazil (UNICA representative).
•	Peter Rein, Consultant and Professor Emeritus LSU, England – Leader.
•	Ramesh Ponnuswami, VP Sugar Refining, EID Parry Ltd., India
•	Wirat Sangkawisit, Executive Vice President - Production, Mitr Phol Sugar, Thailand
•	Dennis Walthew, Knowledge Management Specialist, Tongaat Hulett Sugar, South Africa

Stop Press

We have had a very busy first quarter during 2008. Highlights of this period have included the appointment of technical working group leaders, Peter E T Turner (Agronomy), Maryline Guiramand (Social), and Dr Peter Rein (Processing and Milling). The entire BSI membership welcomes them on the team. The work this well qualified group will be doing is detailed further down below, but meanwhile their professional details can be found on the BSI website.

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Peter E T Turner

Maryline Guiramand

Dr Peter Rein

To achieve the objectives, the BSI is establishing Technical Working Groups (TWGs) - teams of technical and scientific experts - with global representation. These TWGs will assess Better Management Practices being used by sugar growers across the globe under three categories:

•	Environment and agronomy.
•	Social and community.
•	Milling and co-products.

Based on good practice achievements around the world, the TWGs will develop a set of universally-applicable guidelines for consideration by the BSI membership. The guidelines will follow the Quadruple Bottom Line approach which seeks to:

•	Minimise the effects of sugarcane cultivation and processing on the off-site environment.
•	Maintain the value and quality of resources used for production, such as soil, health and water.
•	Ensure production is profitable.
•	Ensure that production takes place in a socially equitable environment.

guidelines requiring further consideration will be tested in different cane-growing scenarios around the world to ensure that they are practical and achievable, and have the desired effect of improving the economic, environmental and social sustainability of sugarcane farming.

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