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Brazil’s Forest Code. To reconcile production with preservation. Assumptions of the Forest Code. Assertion of the sovereign commitment of Brazil to the preservation of its forests. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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To reconcile production with
preservation
Brazil’s Forest Code
Assumptions of the Forest Code
Assertion of the sovereign commitment of Brazil to the preservation of its forests.
Reassurance of the importance of the strategic role from farming activity and from the role of the forests and other sorts of native vegetation.
Government action to protect and sustainable use of forests.
Joint responsibility from the Union, States and Municipalities.
Promotion of scientific and technological research.
Creation and mobilization of economic incentives.
Preservation of the Brazilian forests and biomes.
Sustainable agricultural production.
Social issue compatible to the environment.
Attention to the social issue without harming the environment.
No amnesty to deforesters.
To safeguard smallholders farmers.
Environmental rehabilitation is a responsibility for all.
To maintain the statutes of Permanent Preservation Areas and of Legal Reserve.
Permanent Provisions (future).
Transitory Provisions (past):
•Recovering part of what have been destroyed.
•Transforming fines and lawsuits into reforestation
•Peace to the rural producer.
Data source: Sidra IBGE, Censo Agropecuário, MMA e Incra
Land use and occupancy in Brazil
Preserved areas: 519,7 millions
hectares
Agricultural Production Area: 236
millions hectares
Cities, infrastructure, rivers and lakes: 95,8
millions hectares
61%
27,7%
11,3%
Public Lands: 75,4%Private Lands: 24,6%
358,8 millions hectares
121,8 millions hectares
Legal Brazilian Amazon
Permanent Preservation Area
Protected area, covered or not by native vegetation, with the environmental function of preserving the water resources, the landscape, the geological stability and the biodiversity, facilitating the gene flow of fauna and flora, protecting the soil and assuring the well being of the human populations.
Social concept of the propertyAn area that is situated inside a property or rural possession, that assures the economic use in a sustainable way of the natural resources of the rural property, assists the conservation and the rehabilitation of the ecological processes, promotes the conservation of the biodiversity and protects the Wildlife and the native Flora.
Legal Reserve
80% Legal Amazon35% Cerrado Amazônico (tropical savannah)20% Campos Gerais (Open fields)20% rest of the country
Up to four fiscal modules areas:July 2008 vegetation maintained
Limits of Legal Reserves
All rural property must keep an area covered with native vegetation as a Legal Reserve.
Rural Environmental Registry
Created in the scope of the National Information System on Environment, this is a national registry that is mandatory to all rural properties. It will allow the incorporation of environmental information from the rural properties and possessions as a basis for control, tracking, environmental and economical planning and fighting against deforestation.
It is mandatory to all rural properties and possessions and it must be requested within one year from it establishment which can be extended only once for equal period by the President.
Environmental Regularization Program
Within one year which can be extended only once, the Union, the States and the Federal District must establish Programs of Environmental Regularization to rural properties and possessions.
One-year term for the Program.
Period of 20 years to restore the suppressed vegetation.
Consolidated Rural Area
• Rural property with buildings, improvements and farming, forestry and grazing activities and with anthropical occupation before July 22th 2008. Concerning the farming, forestry and grazing activities, the adoption of a set-aside regime is admitted.
• Intervening or suppressing the native vegetation in a Permanent Preservation Area can only occur in case of public utility, social interest or low environmental impact.
• Under any circumstances, there shall be no right to future interventions or suppressions of the native vegetation.
Consolidated Areas in Permanent Preservation Areas• In the Permanent Preservation Areas it is solely authorized
to continue the farming, forestry and grazing activities, ecotourism and rural tourism in the rural areas consolidated by July 22th 2008, if respected the following distances to the watercourse bed:
Fiscal Module Width of the river
Size of the Permanent Preservation Area
Up to 1 Independent 5 metres are not more than 10% of the property
> 1 to 2 Independent 8 metres are not more than 10% of the property
> 2 to 4 Independent 15 metres are not more than 20% of the property
> 4 to 10 10 metres 20 metres
Others Extent correspondent to half the width from the water course with at least 30 metres and not exceeding 100 metres.
Consolidated Areas in Legal Reserve
The rural property owner or holder that possessed
Legal Reserve area on July 22th 2008 will be able to
regularize its situation through restoration,
regeneration or compensation.
The Legal Reserve in the Rural properties that had an
area of up to 4 fiscal modules on July 22th 2008 will be
formed by the area occupied by the existing native
vegetation from that time. New conversions to
alternative uses of the soil are forbidden.
Development of Production 1976/2012
Unit 1976 1986 1996 2006 2012 Variation (%)
Variation (% per year)
Production mil ton 46.943 64.949 78.427 131.751 181.583 291% 3,86%
Area mil hectares 37.314 42.062 36.575 46.213 52.993 42% 0,98%
Productivity kg/hectare 1.258 1.544 2.144 2.851 3.464 175% 2,85%Conab, Embrapa/Agropensa
From 1976 to 2012, the productivity gains explained 74% of the increase of the production of grains and oils.
The expansion of the farming area answered for just 25% of the increase in production.
Development of Production 1976/2012
Conab, Embrapa/Agropensa
391
142
275
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
1976
/77
1977
/78
1978
/79
1979
/80
1980
/81
1981
/82
1982
/83
1983
/84
1984
/85
1985
/86
1986
/87
1987
/88
1988
/89
1989
/90
1990
/91
1991
/92
1992
/93
1993
/94
1994
/95
1995
/96
1996
/97
1997
/98
1998
/99
1999
/200
020
00/0
120
01/0
220
02/0
320
03/0
420
04/0
520
05/0
620
06/0
720
07/0
820
08/0
920
09/1
020
10/1
120
11/1
220
12/1
3
Evol
ução
da
prod
ução
, áre
a e
prod
utiv
idad
e (1
976/
77=1
00)
Produção Área Produtividade
IBGE
Field production factors: land, labor and technology
Technology is the most important factor to explain the growth of the Brazilian farming
How the productivity is explained
1996 2006
Labor 31,3% 22,3%
Land 18,1% 9,6%
Technology 50,6% 68,1%
The science-based growth of the Brazilian agriculture makes a key contribution to the environmental agenda.
Dados do INPE, Elaboração Embrapa/Agropensa.
Evolution of Deforestation in the Legal Brazilian Amazon
27,8
4,7
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
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2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Taxa
de
desm
atam
ento
(mil
km2/
ano)
Between 2004 and 2012 the deforestation rates in Legal Amazon dropped to 20% per year. In 2012, the deforestation rate (4,7 thousand km2) represented only 17% of the values registered in 2004. (27,8 thousand km2/year)
New agricultural challenges
Sustainable increase of the agricultural production
Sustainable use of the degraded areas.
Sustainable rainforest management
Alternative energy sources
Climate change
luizhenrique@senador.leg.br
SENADO FEDERAL
ALA SENADOR NILO COELHO
ANEXO II – GABINETE 2
70.165-900 – BRASÍLIA – DF
PHONE: + 55 (61) 3303-6446
Thank you very much.Senator Luiz Henrique
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