Práticas de sustentabilidade na cadeia de suprimentos de castanha do Brasil na indústria de alimentos: o caso Wickbold

• Autor(a) principal: Iglesias, Rodrigo de Andrade
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do FGV (FGV Repositório Digital)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10438/32508
• topic: Sustainability; Business logistics; Corporate governance; Brazil nut; Sustentabilidade; Logística empresarial; Governança corporativa; Castanha-do-pará; Administração de empresas; Sustentabilidade; Logística empresarial; Governança corporativa; Castanha-do-pará

This paper investigates, using the case´s study methodology, the sustainability practices in Brazil nut supply chain in the food sector. Through the Origins Brasil program, the company Wickbold buys about 30% of the total Brazil nuts generated by registered producers, reaching 18% of its total volume purchased from the market, following, in this case, a model with traceability, sustainable and inclusive, with origin in 3 Amazonian territories. The model contributes to the maintenance of 11 protected areas with more than nine hundred people impacted by fair trade relations, including Indigenous and traditional peoples, and it´ssupported by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) Imaflora and Instituto Socioambiental (ISA). The Origins Brasil program employs sustainability-oriented governance criteria in the different links that integrate Amazonian communities into the supply chains of Brazilian industries and presents successful cases of identifying suppliers that respect social and environmental aspects, generating work and income keeping the forest alive. The Brazil nut supply chain still suffers from episodes of forced or child labor in the Amazon region, partly due to the isolation of productive areas from the country's main urban centers. Brazil nut extractivism is an alternative for local development in the Amazon, but there are challenges related to traceability and logistics between producers and buyers that must be transposed to expand the scale of models such as Origens do Brasil. Thus, it is essential to integrate communities with initiatives that connect them with its supply chain connections, invest in technologies and training to comply with quality and sustainability standards to serve end customers.