Resumo

Geographical Indications (GIs) are an instrument of industrial property that seeks to distinguish the geographical origin of a given product or service (INPI, 2021). GIs are considered collective tools shaped in the form of a registration that serves to enhance the value of traditional products that are linked to a given territory. GIs possess two main endgames: to aggregate value to a certain product and to protect its productive region (DataSebrae, 2021).

These studies do indicate the impacts provoked by the GIs in their locations, however, there are few studies that compile those findings to infer the aspect of business model and how they attend to the SDGs expectations. That is the loophole that this works intends to fill. Given this context, this research attempts to answer the question “How does literature identify the relation between the impacts generate by GIs in attendance of the FAO sustainable development parameters and the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda.

Sustainable Development and Sustainability.The United Nations defines the concept of sustainable development as: (UN, 1987: 39): “Sustainable development has been defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. To exist not only sustainable economic growth, but develop, it is necessary the fulfillment and the satisfaction of human’s basic needs (Sachs, 2004), solidarity with future generations, making the involved population to participate in this emancipatory process, saving natural resources.

The methodology of this work is based on the procedures proposed by Gaur & Kumar (2018). These authors suggest four steps for the analysis: data collection, coding, data analysis and data content interpretation. The keywords utilized for the database researched were: “geographic* indication” OR “protected designation” and “sustainable*development” OR “economic* impact” OR “environmental*impact” OR “social impact”.

The results show that out of the 17 SDGs present on 2030 Agenda, the only one that is not reported by any article is Objective No 14 “Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development”. The next session will report how each SDG is reported in the examinate cases.

The scientific literature identifies overall positive impacts for the SDGs concerning the branding and utilization of GIs as a production model, even though there are also considerable side effects, and some GIs are more harmful to society, the environment, and the economy. Another point to pin out is that not all GIs can produce results in all the three Sustainable Development feet. Negative impacts or negative with reservations appear in 29,16% of the cases analyzed in juxtaposition of 70,85% of positive outcomes.

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