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

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    Brazil, South America
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Forest Tenure
    deforestation
    climate change
    food security
    agriculture

    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

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    Designing for value: Structuring voluntary certification programs to increase stakeholder acceptance

    Reports & Research
    December, 2015
    Brazil, Indonesia, Asia, South-Eastern Asia, South America
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Forest Tenure
    deforestation
    climate change
    agriculture

    Voluntary certification programs are one type of intervention used to incentivize the commodity agricultural sector in tropical forest landscapes to reduce deforestation and improve sustainability. These programs encourage supply-chain actors to produce and source products according to agreed standards. We review the cases of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) voluntary certification program in Indonesia, and the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) voluntary certification program for cattle in Brazil.

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