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The Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Guidelines are technical reference documents with general and industry-specific examples of Good International Industry Practice (GIIP), as defined in IFC's Performance Standard 3: Resource Efficiency and Pollution Prevention. IFC uses the EHS Guidelines as a technical source of information during project appraisal activities, as described in IFC's Environmental and Social Review Procedures Manual.
The EHS Guidelines for Perennial Crop Production include information relevant to large-scale plantation crops and outgrower systems and focuses on the primary production and harvesting through farming and plantation forestry of major multi-year food, fiber, energy, ornamental, and pharmaceutical crops, located in both temperate and tropical regions. It includes tree crops (such as olives, citrus, coffee, rubber, eucalypts, and cacao) as well as banana, sugarcane, and palm oil. It does not include the processing of raw materials into semi-finished and finished products. Annual crop production is addressed in the EHS Guidelines for Annual Crop Production. Annex A contains a description of industry activities for this sector. A complete list of industry-sector guidelines can be found at www.ifc.org/ehsguidelines.
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Supplemental information:
- Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines (including General and Industry Sector EHS Guidelines)
- Technical Revision of the World Bank Group Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines
- IFC's Sustainability Framework - 2012 Edition
- Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines / Pollution Prevention and Abatement Handbook - Provided as reference material only; replaced by the 2007 versions.