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IBD Certifications (Associação de Certificação Instituto Biodinâmico) is an organization that carries out certification activities for organic and biodynamic products. It was instituted in 1991, dismembering the institution named 'Instituto Biodinâmico de Desenvolvimento Rural'.

Organic production certified by IBD includes agricultural projects, production of inputs, industrialization of food, beef cattle, fish farming, forestry among others. Currently, approximately 700 certified projects and processes of certification are associated with IBD covering all regions of the country and Latin American countries, representing a universe of more than 4,500 producers and 300 thousand hectares. Its clients include both large producers and exporters of agricultural products and some medium to small farmers, indigenous communities and quilombo.

IBD certification has international credibility and is monitored by institutions such as the IFOAM (International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements), from England; DAR, from Germany; USDA, United States; JAS, from Japan and DEMETER International. In addition, it grants the certification of the EUREPGAP standard (fruits, vegetables and animals for meat production) and approved for use with the (Brazilian market), making it's certificate accepted globally.

In addition to organic certification protocols, IBD offers sustainability certifications: Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), Union for Ethical BioTrade (UEBT ), IBD Fair Trade, UTZ (coffee, cocoa), RFA (Rainforest Alliance), 4C (coffee) , ISCC and SAI Platform.

History
In 1983, the opportunity arose to practice several agricultural aspects on a 25 hectare site, low fertility soil on the outskirts of Botucatu. The Tranca Ferro farm had been acquired in 1974 by Associação Beneficente Tobias, from São Paulo, to be the first biodynamic agriculture project in Brazil. Alexandre Harkaly and Marcos Bertalot took over the leadership of the project, which, in 1986, received the name of Biodynamic Institute for Rural Development (IBDR) and promoted courses on biodynamics, edited publications and used the farm as an experimental station for the techniques it sought to propagate.

The certification activity gained space. In 1995, IBDR received accreditation from the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (Ifoam). In 1996 the institute was accredited by Demeter International, also in Germany, to give the certification of biodynamic product. Due to conflicts of interest with the consulting activity in biodynamic agriculture, IBDR was split into three entities in 1999: consultancy and research activities were carried out by the Brazilian Association of Biodynamic Agriculture (Abab), the work of training technicians in this type of discipline was undertaken by Instituto Elo. This advantage made possible to create the IBD certification company, whose results help to maintain Abab and Instituto Elo.

Brazilian law
Starting from 2013, the Brazilian Federation has established its control and certification system and its own rules for the production, marketing and labelling of organic products. Companies wishing to export their organic products to Brazil shall necessarily have certification of compliance with Brazilian regulations issued by a control body authorised by the Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (MAPA). Organic production is regulated by the Organic Law 10.831. This national control and certification system does not recognise any equivalence with the European regulation system, NOP certification (United States) and JAS (Japan).