Assentamentos em Foco: Combate ao Desmatamento e Conservação na Amazônia

The report finds that while agrarian reform settlements occupy only 8% of the Amazon biome, they accounted for 24% of its forest loss in 2023. Deforestation is highly concentrated, with 5% of settlements responsible for 65% of the loss in settled areas between 2017 and 2023. The analysis suggests that large-scale clearing is likely driven by external actors rather than smallholder farmers. Geographically, 63% of this deforestation is concentrated in three Incra Regional Superintendencies: Santarém, Sul do Pará, and Amazonas. The authors recommend that the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA), Ibama, and Incra implement focalized interventions in these priority settlements to enhance conservation.

• Deforestation in the Amazon's agrarian reform settlements is highly concentrated, with a small fraction of settlements causing the majority of the damage. Between 2017 and 2023, 5% of settlements were responsible for 65% of the deforestation in settled areas and 17% of the total vegetation loss in the biome.
• There is evidence that deforestation in these areas is driven by external actors rather than the settled population. This is indicated by the fact that 75% of vegetation loss in settled areas results from clearing plots larger than 6.25 hectares, with 36% exceeding 25 hectares, a pattern inconsistent with typical family farming.
• Deforestation trends within settlements mirror those outside them between 2008 and 2023, suggesting that the same regional and national drivers influence both areas.
• Regional administration of land by Incra shows extreme concentration of forest loss. Between 2017 and 2023, 63% of deforestation in settled areas occurred within just three of the eleven Regional Superintendencies: Santarém, Sul do Pará, and Amazonas.
• Specific settlements exhibit disproportionate levels of deforestation. In the Amazonas Superintendency, five settlements account for 75% of the deforestation, with PA Rio Juma alone responsible for 46% of that total and 8% of all forest loss in settled areas of the biome.
• The report identifies a persistence in the locations of deforestation; 49% of the settlements that were among the top 5% of deforesters in 2023 had appeared on that list at least five other times between 2017 and 2022.

APA

Mourão, J., Souza, P., & Sessim, M. (2024). Assentamentos em Foco: Combate ao Desmatamento e Conservação na Amazônia. Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Assentamentos-em-Foco.pdf

Chicago

Mourão, João, Priscila Souza, and Marcelo Sessim. Assentamentos em Foco: Combate ao Desmatamento e Conservação na Amazônia. Climate Policy Initiative, 2024. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Assentamentos-em-Foco.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{mouro2024assentamentos, author = {Mourão, João and Souza, Priscila and Sessim, Marcelo}, title = {{Assentamentos em Foco: Combate ao Desmatamento e Conservação na Amazônia}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2024}, month = oct, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Assentamentos-em-Foco.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }