Research in partnership with IDB reveals the impact

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The project won the Green Turn award from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which will monitor the implementation of the research and publish the final document as a report.

Voluntary certifications are increasingly important for international trade, but their impacts still require further research. In this context, Rodrigo Fagundes Cezar, a professor at the School of International Relations (FGV RI), is leading a research project on the impact of export-oriented certifications on gender equality in Brazil. The team also includes professors Yixian Sun (University of Bath, United Kingdom) and Juliana Camargo (FGV RI).

The project won the Green Turn award from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which will monitor the implementation of the research and publish the final document as a report. The project is part of the activities of the research group on International Trade and vp quality email database Sustainable Development , based at FGV, and will analyze the impact of certifications on the composition of rural property owners in Brazil. Is there a relationship between export-oriented certifications and an increase or decrease in the number of women rural property owners in Brazil?

Project objectives and differences
The project focuses on Brazilian municipalities with producers that have the Bonsucro certificate. This certification aims to ensure the sustainability of the sugar value chain and is accredited by the European Union's Renewable Energy Directive (RED). Farms certified by Bonsucro based on the RED criteria comply with European environmental regulations, which are now required for export purposes to the bloc.

According to the official rhetoric of the European Union, these certifications can help reduce deforestation in Brazil. However, it is not known what effects (positive and negative) the certifications can generate in other socioeconomic spheres, including gender issues. To mitigate this gap, the project uses econometric methods to analyze an original database detailing sugar and ethanol production at the municipal level, as well as gender variables and other variables relevant to the research.

This is one of the few projects that analyzes the relationship between certifications and gender and the only one, to the authors' knowledge, that specifically analyzes the relationship between certifications aimed at exports and endorsed by public authorities (European Union) and effects on gender equality.