Good Growers
The producers who put their name to it
Good Growers are producers on the GI Atlas who have signed the IGSO Ecosystem Charter — a public undertaking about how they trade. The bar is high on purpose. Membership is annual, and breaking the Charter removes the listing.
At a glance
Good Growers
Producers who put their name to how they trade
Good Growers are producers on the GI Atlas who have signed the IGSO Ecosystem Charter — a public undertaking about how they deal, not a badge they bought. The bar is deliberately high. A buyer reading a Good Growers listing knows the producer has committed, in public, to terms that cost something to keep.
See the origins on the GI AtlasWhat a Good Grower does
- Belongs to a geographical indication, confirmed against the official registers
- Signs the IGSO Ecosystem Charter and is bound by it
- Publishes claims that match the evidence behind them
- Honours the channel that introduced the counterparty
- Discloses defect, shortfall and delay early rather than late
- Accepts that breaking the Charter removes the listing
The bar
The IGSO Ecosystem Charter
Every Good Grower signs the same six commitments. They are published here because a promise nobody can read is not worth making — and because a buyer should be able to hold a producer to them.
01
Integrity of representation
Wherever a member represents its product, the representation corresponds to verifiable evidence. Where a matter is unknown, unverified, or where circumstances have changed and the evidence has not, the member says so. What is said off the platform is held to the same standard as what is published on it.
02
Integrity of channel
Where a counterparty is introduced through an agreed channel, the member transacts through that channel, whatever the commercial logic.
03
Integrity of territory
The member supplies the territory agreed, respects representation rights held by others, and keeps the destination of its goods verifiable at all times.
04
Integrity of introduction
A party that provided access, introduction or market entry keeps the benefit and standing it earned. Parties may adopt the per-box Live Cert record as the agreed basis of computation; IGSO holds that record and settles nothing.
05
Integrity of performance
A member performs the terms it accepted: marks used within licence and within term, and agreed trade terms performed as agreed — not reopened after loading, on arrival, or when the market moves.
06
Integrity of disclosure
Defect, shortfall, delay and change are disclosed to the counterparty promptly, and before they are discovered.
Your protections
- Anyone may propose a change to the Charter. Proposals are published for comment for at least 30 days, and we publish what was said and how we dealt with it.
- A change never binds you retrospectively. It applies at your next renewal, and you may decline it without penalty and without losing standing you have already earned.
- The Charter is a floor, not a ceiling — nothing stops you holding yourself to a higher standard.
- Before any removal we give you the ground and the record in writing, and at least 14 days to answer.
- You may ask for review within 30 days. It is conducted by someone who took no part in the decision, and you may see the record relied on.
- If a removal is reversed, your listing and your earned standing are restored, and the page shows the restored state rather than a history of accusation.
- Every applicant who meets the published criteria is admitted. Membership is never required in order to trade.
What removes a listing
- Publishing a claim the evidence does not support
- Dealing around an agreed channel, or into another representative’s territory
- Using grey channels, relabelling, or intermediaries to obscure destination
- Using an IGSO mark outside its licence or after it lapses
- Refusing to supply records the standards require
- Repeating a breach after a recorded warning
The Charter is a commitment members undertake — it is not a verification IGSO issues. Evidence earns verification; a signature earns nothing but the obligation to keep it. IGSO decides only whether a member still meets the Charter, never who was right in a commercial dispute.
What membership does
What IGSO protects, that a producer cannot protect alone
Membership pays for work, access and maintenance. Here is the work.
Confirms your GI against the official registers
We check the claimed affiliation at source, so a buyer does not have to take your word for it — or discount your price because they cannot check.
Writes the Atlas entry if your GI has none
Where a confirmed geographical indication has no Atlas entry yet, IGSO researches and authors one. We build the shelf before asking anyone to stand on it.
Answers the buyer’s doubt once
Your evidence record is prepared once and read many times, instead of being re-explained in every negotiation from scratch.
Protects the integrity of the trade itself
Where a True Cert Zone is in place, every carton is scanned at the gate and each scan becomes a checkpoint in that carton’s record. Scanned and unscanned labels differ, so goods that bypassed verification are visible rather than hidden, and a voided label cannot be re-used on another box.
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 — 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 — 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 — not per SKU — 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 — 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 — 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.
What you pay for
Four steps, and who charges for each
Nothing here is bundled into a single opaque fee. Each step is separate, you can stop at any of them, and the first one costs nothing. Where a step is provided by a different company in the group, we say so — separate companies, separate invoices.
01
IGSO Standards Check
See how your product measures against IGSO Standards before any fee is discussed. Each requirement returns Missing, Partial or Ready, with a reason and a next action.
- No fee
- No obligation to continue
- No score, percentile or ranking
Free
IGSO
02
Good Growers listing membership
Presence on the shelf, and the standing that comes with signing the Charter. Invoiced domestically.
- Listing under your GI’s Atlas entry
- Signature to the IGSO Ecosystem Charter
- GI affiliation confirmed against the official registers
- Trade enquiries routed to you through IGSO
- Review and maintenance of your record
About RMB 2,000 per producer per year — not per SKU
IGSO
03
Product Ready Report
A separate service, requested when you want it. Reports are human-reviewed outputs of your record — never generated automatically from an unchecked one. Membership does not include them, and they are not required in order to be listed.
- One-time hard copy — offline, carrying the IGSO chop and seal, with a requirement evaluation summary and evidence inventory
From US$300 per SKU, one-time.
IGSO
04
Platform and equipment
If you want to print QRFiD labels and run Live Cert from your own line, that is the Awwws WorldPass platform, not an IGSO charge. Wholesale and retail nodes joining a True Cert Zone install gate equipment on the same basis.
- Software licence per production line
- Paired QR and RFID printers
- Activation charged per identity, so it scales with what you actually produce
Per production line, plus equipment and per-identity activation
Awwws — a separate company, separately invoiced
These are standard prices, and the first cohort may be offered different terms for a stated period. Step 04 is priced by Awwws, not by us. Ask and you will get the current numbers in writing, with what is fixed and what depends on your volume stated separately.
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.