Services

With more than 30 years of experience, we have focused our services on the things we are really good at! These are also the services that we believe have the greatest direct impact on the matters that are important to us as a company (see our vision and mission).

 

Agroforestry Business Plans.

That's where we see a lot of impact! We work directly for land users (farmers, forest owners, government, water authorities, etc.). A plan consists of a planting plan, species list, maps and a complete financial cost-benefit analyses. We are currently making plans for the Agroforestry provincial networks in North Brabant, Limburg, Utrecht and Overijssel. And through our international projects also in Belgium and Germany. In the past 15 years we have made more than 100 plans for hundreds of hectares. And we are proud of that!

 

International projects.

Developing and writing project proposals, finding financing and implementation. In these projects FSG is usually the technical project leader or leader of the practical & technical work packages. Projects are all in the Agroforestry field.

 

Market research.

FSG has a track record of several hundred (!) market research reports. This is and was mainly about sustainable wood, furniture, bamboo and nowadays about Agroforestry products & services. We maintain a market analysis database of almost 100 different Agroforestry products & services that we update continuously. This mainly concerns the possible income. Furthermore, we maintain a database with almost 80 typical Agroforestry cost parameters. These costs, together with the market figures, give FSG the basis to make a good financial calculation of every possible Agroforestry system.

 

Technical assessments.

For FSC (sustainable forestry certification)we made many national risk analyzes for their Controlled Wood Standard. But we also produce environmental impact assessments for private land users, water authorities, investors, banks or other organizations.

 

Certifications.

FSG started out as an FSC certification specialist. Sometimes FSG worked as an auditor, but often also in de preparation phase with direct assistance to the organization pursuing the certificate. FSG is even one of the founders of FSC-Netherlands. Later we developed PDD documents for Carbon credits (mostly VCS and Gold standard) and we worked with PEFC and SBP (Biomass). To support the Agroforestry sector, we recently developed the Agro Farm Forestry label system together with a group of land users. FSG is now the technical executor of the label.