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Reducing deforestation and enhancing sustainability in commodity supply chains: interactions between governance interventions and cattle certification in Brazil

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Title Reducing deforestation and enhancing sustainability in commodity supply chains: interactions between governance interventions and cattle certification in Brazil
 
Creator Alves-Pinto, H.N.
Newton, Peter
Guedes Pinto, L.F.
 
Subject deforestation
cattle
governance
tropics
agriculture
food security
climate change
 
Description A large number of governance interventions are being developed in order to reduce deforestation and enhance the sustainability of commodity
supply chains across the tropics. The extent to which individual agricultural commodity supply chain interventions can achieve scale, and
environmental or social objectives, depends in part on the ways in which those interventions interact with other interventions. We use a casestudy
of the new Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) cattle certification program in Brazil to explore the different ways in which governance
interventions interact. We examine the broad landscape of policies and programs that affect sustainability in the cattle supply chain in Brazil,
and assess whether such interventions support or constrain the scaling up of the SAN cattle program. We conducted semi-structured interviews
with key stakeholders from government, private sector, and civil society organizations. We found that multiple interventions are acting in a
complementary manner to enhance sustainability and therefore enable the scaling up of the SAN program, by aiding compliance with
environmental laws, adoption of good production practices, and improved monitoring. At the same time, limited development, implementation,
and complementarity of some interventions could be antagonistic to the SAN program’s expansion because they maintain a context in which
many actors operate far below the sustainability criteria required by the program. Our holistic approach enables us to identify specific gaps in
the complex landscape of governance interventions in Brazil. Greater strategic complementarity and coordination between interventions may
catalyze a more coherent and effective pathway to reduced deforestation and enhanced sustainability
 
Date 2015-12-14
2016-01-19T15:27:10Z
2016-01-19T15:27:10Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Alves-Pinto HN, Newton P, Guedes Pinto LF. 2015. Reducing deforestation and enhancing sustainability in commodity supply chains: interactions between governance interventions and cattle certification in Brazil. Tropical Conservation Science 8: 1053-1079.
1940-0829
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/70059
http://tropicalconservationscience.mongabay.com/content/v8/tcs_v8i4_1053-1079_Alves-Pinto.pdf
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format p. 1053-1079
 
Publisher Mongabay
 
Source Tropical Conservation Science