Does certification improve biodiversity conservation in Brazilian coffee farms?

Hardt, Elisa; Borgomeo, Edoardo; Santos, Rozely Ferreira dos; Pinto, Luís Fernando Guedes; Metzger, Jean Paul; Sparovek, Gerd

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2015.08.021

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“…Our finding that certification leads to 33% reduced deforestation is similar to research in the logging, timber plantation, and coffee sectors that found significant reductions in deforestation of 2–25% due to third-party certification ( 16 , 42 ). Our result contrasts with work that found no effect of coffee or logging certification on forest loss ( 43 – 46 ). Thus, RSPO certification appears to be at least as effective as similar certification systems at reducing deforestation.…”

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Effect of oil palm sustainability certification on deforestation and fire in Indonesia

Carlson

Heilmayr

Gibbs

et al. 2017

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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SignificanceDemand for agricultural commodities is the leading driver of tropical deforestation. Many corporations have pledged to eliminate forest loss from their supply chains by purchasing only certified “sustainable” products. To evaluate whether certification fulfills such pledges, we applied statistical analyses to satellite-based estimates of tree cover loss to infer the causal impact of a third-party certification system on deforestation and fire within Indonesian oil palm plantations. We found that certification significantly reduced deforestation, but not fire or peatland clearance, among participating plantations. Moreover, certification was mostly adopted in older plantations that contained little remaining forest. Broader adoption by oil palm growers is likely needed for certification to have a large impact on total forest area lost to oil palm expansion.

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Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 99%

Effect of oil palm sustainability certification on deforestation and fire in Indonesia

Carlson

Heilmayr

Gibbs

et al. 2017

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

272

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“…But again all improvements, whether by group or individually certified farms, are made within a certification system that becomes more difficult to acquire year after year. The lack of deterioration over time is reassuring, especially since farms that undergo certification generally were previously committed to environmental and social issues before the certification process (COSA 2014;Hardt et al 2015). Improvement despite increasing difficulty would suggest that those farms that undergo the SAN audit learn about sustainable management of their farms as well as how to achieve (socially sustainable) outcomes.…”

Section: Changes Over Timementioning

confidence: 99%

Coffee certification in Brazil: compliance with social standards and its implications for social equity

Maguire‐Rajpaul

Rajpaul

McDermott

et al. 2018

Environ Dev Sustain

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This paper addresses the relationship between compliance with social performance criteria (the social outcomes that must be achieved for certification) and procedural (management) criteria and this relationship's significance for social equity at both farm and wider landscape levels. We consider social performance compliance to be pertinent to farm-level equity, and the relative compliance of small versus large farms to be pertinent to landscapelevel equity. Certification's management requirements are often deemed disproportionately burdensome for small, resource-poor producers, and hence a barrier to landscape-level equity. There is a lack of research examining how management criteria impact the ability of different sized farms to meet certification's social performance requirements. We analysed 435 certification audits, covering all Brazilian coffee farms that sought Rainforest Alliance certification from 2006 to 2014 inclusive: 80 individual farms and 23 groups of farms. In principle, undergoing group certification permits smallholders to benefit from economies of scale. Our analysis revealed a statistically significant, positive correlation between compliance with procedural (managing sustainability plans) and social performance criteria. This correlation was stronger for groups than individual farms. Group farms' compliance was statistically equivalent to that of individual farms, suggesting that group certification is achieving its intended purpose of socio-economic levelling of certified farmers. Over time, certified farms' average compliances improved. Our findings suggest that management requirements play an important role in improving smallholders' overall social sustainability performance and that group certification may help resource-poor smallholders achieve those requirements. Further work is required to understand causal mechanisms underlying the relationships we present.

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“…Critérios estão sendo estabelecidos para assegurar a sustentabilidade das cadeias do agronegócio, a exemplo da, European Renewable Energy Directive (EU RED). O que fomenta iniciativas abertas de multi-stakeholders e da indústria privada no estabelecimento de certificações socioambientais para atender esses critérios Hardt et al, 2015).…”

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Gerenciamento Pelas Diretrizes Como Direcionador De Melhorias Em Um Programa De Qualidade No Agronegócio

Farinelli

Santos

Galli

2018

RORAIMA MANAGEMENT REVIEW

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Esta pesquisa analisa um Programa de Qualidade para propriedades canavieiras sob as perspectivas do Gerenciamento pelas Diretrizes (GPD). Na literatura relaciona-se o êxito de implantações da Gestão da Qualidade (GQ) com o GPD, porém, ainda, sem abrangência nas certificações voltadas ao agronegócio, o que evidencia um gap teórico-prático neste tema. Utilizou-se uma abordagem qualitativa com base no método do estudo de caso orientado pela análise de conteúdo, a partir de uma certificação proposta por uma representativa Associação de Produtores Rurais do setor Canavieiro do Estado de São Paulo. Os resultados demonstram que o Programa da Qualidade estudado utiliza princípios da GQ, todavia, não contempla os valores e práticas do GPD, que poderiam permitir o processo de melhoria contínua com maior efetividade junto aos produtores, e com efeito, aumentar a confiabilidade da certificação estudada.

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Does certification improve biodiversity conservation in Brazilian coffee farms?

Cited by 56 publications

References 39 publications

Effect of oil palm sustainability certification on deforestation and fire in Indonesia

Effect of oil palm sustainability certification on deforestation and fire in Indonesia

Coffee certification in Brazil: compliance with social standards and its implications for social equity

Gerenciamento Pelas Diretrizes Como Direcionador De Melhorias Em Um Programa De Qualidade No Agronegócio

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