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Professor Simone Sehnem Academic Background

Post Doc in Management at FGV (2016...on going) PhD in Management at Univali (2011) MSc in Management at UFSC (2007) BSC in Management at UNOESC (2010) BSc in Agribusiness at UNOESC (2005)

Position

Associate Professor at Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina (UNOESC) – Professor at the Master’s in Professional Business Administration and Professor at Doctorate in Management and Associate Professor at Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (UNISUL) – Professor at the Master’s in Management

About 650Km

Research Theme

Sustainable Supply Chain Circular Economy Resources (Resource Based-View)

Sectors

Agribusiness – food production (dayry, poultry, porks) and organic foods Agricultural cooperatives – Aurora (approximately 100 thousand families associated) Credit cooperative – management resources

Some Findings

Some Findings

Some Findings

Workshop: “Indicators and Metrics for Socially Inclusive Waste Management and Resource Efficiency in Supply Chains: Measuring and Reporting to Embed Sustainability in Policy and Practice”

: organic cane

Native is a company belonging to the Balbo do Brasil Group that produces

• rganic sugar and alcohol. Balbo is

composed of three sugarcane mills, two of which are located in São Paulo State and one in Minas Gerais State. Currently, at the Santo Antonio Plant, the production is 600 thousand litres

• f alcohol and 12,000 50 kg bags of

sugar per day. In the São Francisco Mill, the second in this family business, the daily production is 420 thousand litres of alcohol and 8,000 bags of sugar.

Leontino Balbo Júnior Vice President of Native

14 years ago, the Santo Antônio and São Francisco mills were self-sufficient in electric power, generated in their own units from the sugarcane bagasse. It sells its products in 64 countries of all continents, including supplying

• rganic alcohol to the

cosmetics industry. According to the executive interviewed, Native is the world's largest sugarcane producer. The company is in its third succession process.

Native Florianópolis

The cultivation covers a land area of 20,000 hectares. The production model adopted by Native for organic sugar makes possible not only the total neutralization of the carbon emissions in the atmosphere, but also to act as a carbon sink, taking out a larger volume than the emission itself. The conventional sugarcane production system included the use of pesticides, chemical fertilizers, burning to harvest the crop, manual cutting, throwing the cane on to the ground, dirtying it, thus requiring industrial w a s h i n g , i n c u r r i n g a n a v e r a g e consumption of 4 million litres of water per hour.

Circular economy additionally incorporates the design of products and services. It is based on 3 main principles: a) disposal of waste; b) separating biological nutrients from technical nutrients, where the former are returned to the biosphere and the latter are reused indefinitely; c) use renewable energy to reduce resource dependence and increase system resilience (WEF, 2014). It is estimated that the circular economy represents an opportunity

• f approximately US$ 1 trillion,

besides providing important environmental benefits (WEF, 2016).

Practices adopted by the circular economy:

• Reuse
• Remanufacturing
• Recycling
• Circulation of resources
• Use of clean renewable

energy

• Separation of biological

nutrients and technical nutrients, where the former is returned to nature and the latter is recycled/reused indefinitely

Technical Cycle Biological Cycle

Production Harvest Plantation Mineral and organic nutrients Biological degradation Separation and disposal of waste Damaged Products Technical products Manufacturing

• f products

Raw materials and material reuse

Direct consumption

Pioneers in Brazil in mechanised sugarcane harvesting

No more burning the sugar cane for harvesting

No more pesticides In the first 3 years of the transition to

• rganic

production, productivity decreased

Chemical fertilizers are not used

Regeneration of soil by means of biological assets and natural cycles

Special lighter harvesting machinery

Use of high flotation tyres to reduce soil compaction

Pests are fought with their natural enemies (e.g. wasps that combat boring insects)

Planting of spices among the rows of sugarcane

Positive interference in the natural habitats of the wild animals of the region

Improving water quality

Generation and use of clean energy

Organic cane production with superior productivity and greater field longevity (already reached 14 cuts of cane, with potential for 20)

Range of manufactured products

Products have added value by being organic

Native Certifications: The certification of a plant, animal or industrial production indicates that the following work was carried out:

• Periodic visits by an inspector at the place of production;
• Evaluation of the inspection report by a board consisting of farmers,

processors, academics, technicians and representatives of consumers;

• Analysis of residues to verify the level of product purity;
• Approval of the production unit according to organic or biodynamic

quality standards.

Partnership with universities and research centres, such as Embrapa, to seek technological improvements, monitoring and evaluation of performance indicators of the farms and the industry

Native Retail Outlets, and joining the Union for Ethical BioTrade The Union for Ethical BioTrade is a non- profit association that promotes "Respectful Supply" of ingredients derived from

• biodiversity. Members undertake to

progressively ensure that their supply p r a c t i c e s p r o m o t e b i o d i v e r s i t y conservation, respect traditional knowledge and ensure equitable sharing of benefits throughout the supply chain

Improvement Opportunities: § Use of biodegradable packaging; § Reverse logistics of non- biodegradable packaging; § Calculate the ecological footprint of the distribution, and create compensation alternatives; § Conscious marketing strategies § Infinite recycling of non-organic waste from the production system

Avenues for Further Collaboration

Circular Economy: Comparative case studies among different countries to understand how to deploy, how to monitor performance indicators and opportunities to increase the circularity of resources Sustainable Supply Chain: comparative studies of supply chains from different countries and global chains

Simone Sehnem

Email: simonesehnem_adm@yahoo.com.br Tel.: +55 49 9998-8832