Contextualizing certification and auditing: Soy certification and access of local communities to land and water in Brazil

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Contextualizing certification and auditing: Soy certification and access of local communities to land and water in Brazil. / Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut; Lenschow, Andrea; Challies, Edward et al.
in: World Development, Jahrgang 140, 105281, 01.04.2021.

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Schilling-Vacaflor A, Lenschow A, Challies E, Cotta B, Newig J. Contextualizing certification and auditing: Soy certification and access of local communities to land and water in Brazil. World Development. 2021 Apr 1;140:105281. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105281

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title = "Contextualizing certification and auditing: Soy certification and access of local communities to land and water in Brazil",
abstract = "The massive expansion of soy production in Brazil has contributed to a loss of access for local communities to land and water, particularly in highly dynamic frontier regions in the Cerrado. Soy certification standards like the Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS) contain principles that are supposed to prevent such problems. In this paper, we examine the extent to which certification and auditing have served to protect local communities{\textquoteright} access to land and water in western Bah{\'i}a state in the Cerrado{\textquoteright}s Matopiba region. We draw on findings from field research in Brazil and western Bah{\'i}a, 72 semi-structured interviews with corporate, state and civil society actors, and a systematic analysis of audit reports from RTRS-certified farms in Bah{\'i}a.We find that auditing practices are not effective in protecting the rights and access of local communities to land and water due to three inter-related sets of factors: 1) the business-dominated nature of the drafting and content of the RTRS standard, 2) the structural limitations and everyday practices of auditing, and 3) domestic and local contextual factors in Brazil and western Bah{\'i}a.This study aims to contribute to a re-thinking and re-assessment of certification and auditing practices and suggests that new approaches are required to govern global commodity chains in a more environmentally just way. We advocate for a locally embedded and community-sensitive perspective in research on certification and auditing, to complement previous research in the fields of critical political economy and sustainability governance.",
keywords = "Sustainability Governance, environmental governance, RTRS, Commodity chain, Access rights, Latin America, Brazil, Access rights, Brazil, Commodity chain, Environmental governance, Latin America, RTRS",
author = "Almut Schilling-Vacaflor and Andrea Lenschow and Edward Challies and Benedetta Cotta and Jens Newig",
note = "This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under grant no. LE 2396/4-1 through the project “GOVERNECT - Governance of Environmental Sustainability in Telecoupled Systems of Global Inter-Regional Connectedness” (see https://sustainability-governance.net/governect ). ",
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AU - Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut

AU - Lenschow, Andrea

AU - Challies, Edward

AU - Cotta, Benedetta

AU - Newig, Jens

N1 - This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under grant no. LE 2396/4-1 through the project “GOVERNECT - Governance of Environmental Sustainability in Telecoupled Systems of Global Inter-Regional Connectedness” (see https://sustainability-governance.net/governect ).

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N2 - The massive expansion of soy production in Brazil has contributed to a loss of access for local communities to land and water, particularly in highly dynamic frontier regions in the Cerrado. Soy certification standards like the Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS) contain principles that are supposed to prevent such problems. In this paper, we examine the extent to which certification and auditing have served to protect local communities’ access to land and water in western Bahía state in the Cerrado’s Matopiba region. We draw on findings from field research in Brazil and western Bahía, 72 semi-structured interviews with corporate, state and civil society actors, and a systematic analysis of audit reports from RTRS-certified farms in Bahía.We find that auditing practices are not effective in protecting the rights and access of local communities to land and water due to three inter-related sets of factors: 1) the business-dominated nature of the drafting and content of the RTRS standard, 2) the structural limitations and everyday practices of auditing, and 3) domestic and local contextual factors in Brazil and western Bahía.This study aims to contribute to a re-thinking and re-assessment of certification and auditing practices and suggests that new approaches are required to govern global commodity chains in a more environmentally just way. We advocate for a locally embedded and community-sensitive perspective in research on certification and auditing, to complement previous research in the fields of critical political economy and sustainability governance.

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KW - environmental governance

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KW - Access rights

KW - Latin America

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KW - Commodity chain

KW - Environmental governance

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JO - World Development

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