For producers
Stand on the GI Atlas shelf
The GI Atlas tells the world what a geographical indication is. Good Growers is how a producer comes to stand on that shelf â a listing under the Atlas entry for the GI you belong to, showing what your product is and what has actually been evidenced. Interest routes through IGSO; no contact details are ever published.
At a glance
Where this sits
A listing on the GI Atlas shelf
The GI Atlas is where IGSO tells the world what a geographical indication is â free to read, with no account and no sign-up. Good Growers is how a producer comes to stand on that shelf: a listing under the Atlas entry for the GI you belong to, saying who you are, what you grow and where. The Atlas entry comes first. A product cannot be listed under a geographical indication whose Atlas entry does not yet exist.
Browse the GI Atlas- The Atlas is the shelf â IGSO speaks, and anyone may read it
- A Good Growers listing is a producer standing on that shelf
- The Atlas entry names its producers; your listing names its GI
- Membership buys presence and review effort â it never buys a verified status
The problem
Your product should not be defined by scattered files
Product information lives in folders, emails and spreadsheets. Buyers fill the gaps with assumptions, and claims that cannot be checked are quietly discounted. Importers rarely verify origin claims at all â they price the doubt in instead, and the producer absorbs it.
Start free
IGSO Standards Check
Before any fee is discussed, see how your product measures against IGSO Standards. Each requirement comes back as Missing, Partial or Ready, with a plain-language reason and a clear next action.
We do not publish a score, a percentile or a ranking. A requirement is either met, partly met, or not met, and you are told which.
- A requirement-by-requirement view of your product
- Missing, Partial or Ready â with the reason stated plainly
- A next action for every gap, not just a verdict
- No fee, and no obligation to continue
Before you are listed
How a GI affiliation is confirmed
You cannot claim a geographical indication simply by naming it. Every claimed affiliation is checked against the official GI registers first, and what happens next depends on what those registers say.
Confirmed, and the Atlas entry exists
Your product may be listed under that Atlas entry, and the entry names you among its producers. The link runs both ways.
Confirmed, but no Atlas entry yet
IGSO researches and authors the Atlas entry first. The shelf is built before anything is asked to stand on it â we do not open a listing against a GI the Atlas has not yet described.
Not a registered geographical indication
The product may not carry the GI claim, and we will not publish it. The product may still be listed on its own merits, without that claim.
The product
The Good Growers listing
A listing is the published view of your product on the Atlas shelf â drawn from what you and IGSO have prepared together, and only from the fields approved for publication. It is presence: enough for a buyer to recognise your product, understand what has actually been evidenced, and take the next step through IGSO.
Listing membership is an annual fee charged per producer â not per SKU â and invoiced domestically. It pays for presence on the shelf, for access, and for the review and maintenance effort behind both. It does not buy a verified status: evidence earns that, and nothing else does.
A listing does not go stale merely because time has passed, and we will not manufacture a fresh evidence date to suggest otherwise. Where a specific claim is suspended or expires, that claim loses its verified presentation immediately â the rest of the listing is not relabelled because of it.
How buyers reach you
Interest and commitment are different doors
No producer contact details appear anywhere on this website, at any tier. Every approach routes through IGSO. Anyone may read a listing, but reaching a producer requires an identified account â and the two things a buyer may then do are deliberately not the same act.
A trade enquiry is routed
A registered enterprise may send a recorded enquiry about buying. IGSO routes it to you. It obliges neither side to anything, and it is never a mandate application.
A territory application is decided
A verified enterprise may apply to represent your product in a territory. An application is a proposal, not an appointment: a mandate exists only once you confirm it and IGSO records it. The two are never merged, and never counted as one.
Verification is triggered when it matters rather than demanded upfront, so browsing and enquiring stay friction-free. Evidence review of a buyer runs at two moments only: when it files a territory application, or when you accept its enquiry and elect to proceed.
When you are ready
Product Ready Reports
Reports are separate from listing membership and come last. The listing is presence on the shelf; reports are paid outputs you request. They are human-reviewed, never generated automatically from an unchecked record.
One-time hard copy
A human-reviewed Product Ready Report issued as an offline hard copy carrying the IGSO chop and seal, with a requirement evaluation summary and evidence inventory.
Ongoing digital copy
A per-SKU subscription that keeps your product record and its evidence current, with digital Product Ready Reports issued on an ongoing basis.
Being precise
What Good Growers is not
A standard is only worth something if it is clear about its own limits. Good Growers is not, and does not substitute for, any of the following.
- Certification
- Export approval
- Legal advice
- GS1 approval
- Food safety compliance
- Buyer acceptance
Start with the free Standards Check
Tell us about your product and we will show you what is Missing, Partial and Ready before anything else is discussed.