Lack of real transparency and traceability
Processes and origins stay hidden behind the label. Without real traceability, marketing decides for you.
YOUR FOOD CHOICES MATTER
Meet the producers who have joined the CoCo Sapiens standards: health, environmental impact and ethics, all at once. We connect those who produce with integrity with those who want to eat knowing more, with a map for buying through short supply chains near you and Food Reports that explain how what you eat is produced.
CoCo Sapiens is a non-profit association that develops tools to understand and transform food systems.
What problem does CoCo Sapiens solve?
The food systemdoesn't work for consumers
Behind every label there are processes, places and decisions that you never see and have no part in.
The result: you decide on the basis of marketing, not real information.
CoCo Sapiens brings the information and transparency that make conscious consumption possible.
Greenwashing and confusing claims
Claims that measure one thing and hide the rest. More noise, less useful information.
Total producer–consumer disconnect
Producers and consumers rarely really meet. Without a link, transforming the system is harder.
Transparency tools
We develop reference standards and analysis tools for agriculture, livestock and fisheries to help understand how food is produced and what impact different production models generate from a holistic, systemic perspective.
Standards
They identify member producers. The producer joins a common set of standards, from seed genetics to packaging. Areas: Agriculture · Livestock · Fishing · Aquaculture (in development).
See the standardsCoCo Score and CoCo Sapiens Certified
Each product is measured with the CoCo Score using real data. An outside body verifies that the information is true. Those that pass may carry the CoCo Sapiens Certified certification.
See the CoCo ScoreFood Map
Find where to buy through short supply chains near you. Member producers appear with their full profile. Independent producers appear with their products, their website and how they sell; we check this online, from what they publish, without a visit. Together with the CoCo Sapiens 360 distinction, the map is part of a network that connects shops with member producers so they can agree fair prices directly.
See the map (beta)Support for transformation
A network of consultants accredited by CoCo Sapiens in each country: they help the producer improve the product, quality and impact, in line with the CoCo Sapiens standards.
How to joinFood Reports, Food Journal and newsletter
Knowledge and transparency: reports, Food Journal pieces and the newsletter for anyone who wants to know more about how what they eat is produced.
Read on the blogChange starts with your next purchase.
Become part of a community of consumers who have decided to use their purchasing power to transform the food system. As a CoCo Sapiens member you get exclusive information, support 360° standards that look at the health, environmental and ethical side of each food at once, and contribute to a model of conscious consumption.
- · Access to exclusive Food Reports
- · Newsletter with priority content
- · A voice in the community
Understand the food system
You once knew the hands that grew your food… and you still can.
There’s a whole world beyond the supermarket shelf.
Read in the newsletter
Food Journal: The life of a tomato
Food loss and waste don't only start in the bin. We follow an illustrative tomato from the field to the kitchen — and ask what the barcode doesn't tell us.
Read on LinkedIn
The 'bluewashing' of bottom trawling and km0: the extinction of small-scale fisheries
Behind the friendly "fish market" or "km0" label often sits fish caught by trawling, an industrial method. Direct sales are banned, forcing small-scale fishers onto the same channels and prices as the trawl fleet.
Read in the newsletter
Food Report · 01
Small-Scale Fishing in a System That Works Against It
This first CoCo Sapiens Food Report examines the situation of small-scale, low-impact fishing and the structural difficulties it faces in Spain. It looks at direct sales, traceability, labelling, fishing gear, discards and the regulatory framework, while exploring possible pathways towards a more transparent and resilient fisheries system.
Read more
Food Journal · Film
A Tribute to Bigas Luna
An audiovisual piece about food, territory and pleasure, featuring archival material provided by the Bigas Luna family.
Read moreCoCo Sapiens Library
Research, analysis and stories that make visible what lies behind the food we consume.
Explore our Food Reports and Food Journal, and subscribe to receive new publications from CoCo Sapiens.
Subscribe