BaccuS: A framework for sustainability in the wine industry / BaccuS : un framework pour le développement durable dans la vitiviniculture

¹ Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Sul (IFRS) – campus Restinga, Rua Alberto Hoffmann 285, CEP 91791-508, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
² Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul – Postgraduate Program of Geography (PosGea), Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500/43113/203, CEP 91540-000, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

^a e-mail: shana.flores@restinga.ifrs.edu.br

Abstract

The BaccuS is a proposal of framework intended to support the internalization of sustainability principles in the wine industry, enhancing the actors' performance in this sense. The framework was built from two exploratory studies in Brazilian wine regions of Campanha Gaúcha (RS) and Vale do São Francisco (BA/PE) and preliminary studies which involved technical visits in three countries (France, Italy and Spain) and frameworks' observations in another five (South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, USA and Chile). The BaccuS is structured on a matrix basis, with an axis corresponding to dimensions and other to guidelines, both in ascending order of complexity and development. The five sustainability dimensions (environment, economic, social, political- institutional and territorial) and the four guidelines (management, articulation and cooperation, innovation and learning and sustainability) are articulated by eighteen topics that represent areas to act to promote the sustainability in the wine territories. Each topic was unfolded in indicators. Additionally, ten synthesis indicators specify initiatives or programs that can be implemented to impact positively on several indicators. The BaccuS framework can be applied in several scales, in the winery or the territory.