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

Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, Andrea Lenschow, Edward Challies, Benedetta Cotta and Jens Newig

World Development, 2021, vol. 140, issue C

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’ 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.

Keywords: Environmental governance; RTRS; Commodity chain; Access rights; Latin America; Brazil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105281

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