market recognition and sustainability schemes gus le breton
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Market Recognition and Sustainability Schemes Gus Le Breton. Southern African Natural Products Trade Association. Non-profit trade association representing 50 + members SMEs, producer groups, NGOs, researchers, in 8 countries. Southern African Natural Products Trade Association. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Market Recognition and Sustainability Schemes
Gus Le Breton
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Southern African NaturalProducts Trade Association
Non-profit trade association representing 50 + members
SMEs, producer groups, NGOs, researchers, in 8 countries
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Southern African NaturalProducts Trade Association
Objective – develop income for rural producers (wild harvesting, traditional farming systems – pro-poor)
Develop and facilitate markets for new natural products derived exclusively from selected indigenous plants
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The Big Picture
What are we trying to achieve?
Basic goal is to reduce poverty for this generation
+Without threatening the environmental security of the next generation
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The Big Picture
Biodiversity conservation is an essential element of environmental security
BUT
Not an element that many people understand
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The Big Picture
Certainly not something that the market understands
For most consumers, the definition of an environmentally sound product is one that is …
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The Big Picture
NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS!!
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The Implications for Business
• Any business that is making genuine steps towards sustainable biodiversity management and poverty alleviation has no means of:
- Assessing its progress
- Differentiating itself on the market
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The Implications for Business
• If it cannot differentiate itself on the market, it cannot cover the additional costs associated with biodiversity management and poverty alleviation
• If a business cannot cover the additional costs incurred, it will either:
• Go out of business; or
• Stop incurring those costs
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The Implications for Poverty/Biodiversity
• Biodiversity-friendly, pro-poor businesses almost invariably incur greater costs
• Those costs have to be covered somehow
• Either they are covered through the market
• Or they are covered through subsidies (including fiscal incentives, tax breaks etc)
• If they are not covered, there will be no biodiversity-friendly, pro-poor businesses
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Challenges
1. Will the market ever get it?
2. Will it ever be possible to differentiate yourself?
3. If so, will the benefits of differentiation outweigh the costs?
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Will the market get it?
• The move towards naturals and organic is overwhelming
• L’Oreal buys the Body Shop, then Sanoflore
• Colgate buys Tom’s of Main• Clarins buys Kibio • Etc. etc.
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Will the market get it?
“L'Oreal CEO Jean-Paul Agon has …. made it clear that he wants to increase the company's footprint in the naturals and organic arena, stating that current demand was too great to ignore, indicating the possibility of further acquisitions in this area.” Cosmetics Design Europe Oct 2006
“Natural & organic cosmetic sales are increasing by over 20% a year whereas the conventional cosmetics industry is stagnating.” Organic Monitor Oct 2006
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Will the market get it?
• Question is whether the more complex biodiversity/poverty argument will ever be understood by the market
• All the signs are that it can and will be• Market is growing more sophisticated• Issues of biodiversity, equitable Access and Benefit
Sharing, genuine pro-poor impact are all appearing in consumers minds
• Also starting to feature in the consciousness of governments and of private investors (e.g. Natura)
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Will the market get it?
Product Volume000s MT
Producers000s HH
ValueMillions USD
Mongongo 45 400 20
Kalahari Melon
300 1,500 21
Parinari 95 2,400 37
Ximenia 90 1,500 38
Marula 880 2,400 263
Trichilia 915 2,300 502
Baobab 715 1,300 962
Kigelia 705 1,800 1,588
Total 3,745 13,600 3,430
One natural products feasibility study conducted in 10 SADC countries in 2005
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Will differentiation be possible?
• It has to be
• If there is consumer demand for biodiversity-friendly, pro-poor goods and services, there will be demand for a differentiation system
• Once this demand exists, the market will respond
• How the market responds will determine the success
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Will differentiation be possible?
• Natural response would be through the rapid implementation of a number of different certification/verification schemes
• Many will be hastily conceived and poorly developed, and will quickly sink
• There will be a period of confusion in the market before, eventually, the regulatory authorities step in
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Will differentiation be possible?
• A more measured and thoughtful response would be to look ahead and plan for the time when differentiation becomes the norm
• Develop something now that will serve this function in the future
• Thereby avoiding that initial period of boom-bust confusion and regulatory intervention
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Will the benefits exceed costs?
• Initially probably not
• But in the longer term, the balance will tip in favour of the differentiation mechanism
• Ultimately, differentiation will cease to be an optional extra, it will become an inevitable pre-requisite for entering the market
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Conclusion
• Is the scale of the market opportunity for biodiversity-friendly, pro-poor goods and services big enough to warrant serious investigation?
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Conclusion
• Is market differentiation going to be possible and desirable for this market?
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Conclusion
• Has the time come to start working towards such a market differentiation mechanism?
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