The ABC Cerrado project recovered in two years more than 84 thousand hectares of pastures that were degraded in this biome. Held jointly by the Ministry of Agriculture, Embrapa and the National Rural Apprenticeship Service (Senar / Rural), it is financed by the Forest Investment Program (FIP), which allocated US $ 10.6 million to the project. Resources are managed by the World Bank.
The main actions are the training and technical assistance in technologies foreseen in the ABC Plan (Low Carbon Emission Agriculture). In addition to the recovery of areas, they include crop-livestock-forest integration, no-tillage and commercial forest integration. The units of the federation where it is developed are.
The project began in 2014, since when 4,708 local producers were trained. Of these, 1,957 received technical assistance two years ago. More than 6 thousand have participated in different actions, including field days
According to Pedro Neto, director of the Department of Development of Productive Chains and Sustainable MPLS Production, the results obtained are so promising that, with each real invested by the international fund, another eight reais have been voluntarily banked by the producer himself.
The FIP, the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) program, supports efforts to reduce deforestation and degradation and promotes sustainable forest management to reduce emissions and increase forest carbon stocks. In Brazil, it supports the country’s Investment Plan that promotes the sustainable use of land and the improvement of forest management in the Cerrado Biome. Remaining resources of the project are being directed to the Rural Environmental Registry.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.