Impacts of FSC Certification on workers and local communities including traditional and Indigenous Peoples: Study Design [Working Paper 68]

Camilo De Los Rios; Marcelo  Goncalves; Subhrendu  Pattanayak; Erin O. Sills; Claudia Romero

doi:10.17528/cifor-icraf/009446

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Impacts of FSC Certification on workers and local communities including traditional and Indigenous Peoples: Study Design [Working Paper 68]

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Impacts of FSC Certification on workers and local communities including traditional and Indigenous Peoples: Study Design [Working Paper 68]

Camilo De Los Rios, Marcelo Goncalves, Subhrendu Pattanayak, Erin O. Sills and Claudia Romero

Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)

2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17528/cifor-icraf/009446

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Abstract

FSC certificaton

legal frameworks

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) emerged in 1993 as an opportunity to engage government, civil society and the private sector in promoting sustainable forest management through voluntary, independently verified certification. To identify the environmental, social and economic value created by certification, FSC’s global strategy calls for ‘impact data’ (FSC 2021). One type of ‘impact data’ is evidence on the causal effects of the certification of management units. This type of evidence could be used both to guide the revision of FSC normative documents (e.g., Forest Stewardship Standards) and to inform stakeholders about the value of FSC certification. This, in turn, could lead to an increased demand for FSC-certified products and investments in FSC certified operations, rewarding certificate holders.

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Title: Impacts of FSC Certification on workers and local communities including traditional and Indigenous Peoples: Study Design [Working Paper 68]
Authors: Camilo De Los Rios - Duke University
Marcelo Goncalves - Duke University
Subhrendu Pattanayak - Duke University
Erin O. Sills - North Carolina State University
Claudia Romero (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast
Publication details: 21 pages
Publisher: Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
Date published: 2026
DOI: 10.17528/cifor-icraf/009446
Copyright note: Content in this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0), http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Organisation Unit: Tropical Forests and People Research Centre
Language: English
Record Identifier: 991212979502621
Output Type: Report

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