These Guidelines are the result of five years of participatory development, together with practitioners from civil society and private sector. The Guidelines are the result of an iterative process, built on the cross-comparisons of codes of practice, corporate reporting, standards, indicators and other technical protocols currently used by private sector, governments, not-for-profits and multi-stakeholder organizations that reference or implement sustainability tools. SAFA builds on, and acknowledges, existing sustainability tools, with the goal of integrating and relating current systems. The Guidelines are produced in the same spirit of codes of practice, guidelines and other recommended measures to assist in achieving sustainable and fair practices in food and agriculture production and trade. Because existing schemes remain fragmented on what constitutes a sustainable food and agriculture system, SAFA aims to fill the gap between specific sustainability tools, while fostering partnerships for the long-term transformation of food systems.