The National Rural Learning Service (SENAR) will provide technical and managerial assistance to four thousand rural properties in the Cerrado Biome starting in 2019. The action is part of the FIP Landscape Project, an initiative that aims to make integrated management of the Cerrado landscape.
The initiative will be funded by the Forest Investment Program (FIP) and will be launched during the 24th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP24) in December in Poland.
The landscape management will be done through the monitoring of satellite images, provided by the National Institute of Space Research (INPE) and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), where it will be possible to verify the progress of the implemented actions.
“We are going to encourage the adoption of sustainable low carbon technologies, associated with technical guidelines for the conservation and recovery of degraded areas,” explains Senar’s Director of Technical and Management Assistance, Matheus Ferreira.
Each property will receive service for 24 months, with actions aimed at increasing productivity and income in assisted production chains. The FIP Landscape will last six years and will assist rural producers in Bahia, the Federal District, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Maranhão, Minas Gerais, Piauí and Tocantins.
Ferreira points out that the differential of this project is that the technicians of the technical assistance of the Senar will receive specific training to execute it in the field. “Professionals will have the ability to draw up environmental adequacy plans that will be a pathway for the Degraded or Modified Areas (Pradas) Recomposed Projects required by the Environmental Regulation Program (PRA) that are being built in the states.”
The Brazilian Forestry System, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MPLS), the World Bank and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) are also part of the project.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.