PRODUO E PROTEO: IMPORTANTES DESAFIOS PARA O BRASIL

The report argues that Brazil can simultaneously increase agricultural production and improve environmental protection by enhancing land-use efficiency. It identifies key barriers to productivity, including limited access to rural credit, insufficient technological diffusion, underdeveloped land leasing markets, and deficient infrastructure. On the protection side, it highlights the need to combat small-scale deforestation in the Amazon, implement the Forest Code on private lands via the Rural Environmental Registry, and extend monitoring to other biomes, particularly the Cerrado. The authors propose a P&P strategy based on systematic monitoring of representative land-use areas and the creation of a public-private consortium to design and test effective policy interventions.

• Brazil has significantly expanded its protected areas, with the total extent in 2006 being more than ten times that of 1985, and has established institutional structures to control deforestation in the Amazon.
• Current deforestation in the Amazon is characterized by small increments, which may be a result of technical limitations in monitoring systems that only identify plots above a certain size.
• The Cerrado biome is particularly vulnerable to deforestation due to its attractiveness to agricultural producers, and much of this deforestation is legal under the Forest Code, necessitating policies beyond simple law enforcement.
• Access to rural credit significantly impacts productivity, with approximately 20% of the variation in agricultural productivity associated with credit availability; however, family farmers face greater barriers, with over 40% of those who needed credit citing fear of debt as a reason for not seeking it.
• Land leasing markets in Brazil are underdeveloped compared to international standards, with less than 5% of agricultural land under lease or partnership in 2006, compared to over 35% in Europe and 65% in the United States.
• Brazil's infrastructure is deficient, which increases rural production costs; for example, transporting one ton of soy from a leading producing municipality to an export point is nearly three times more expensive than a similar distance in the United States.
• National storage capacity is only 80% of the harvest, which is below the 120% recommended by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

APA

Climate Policy Initiative (2013). PRODUO E PROTEO: IMPORTANTES DESAFIOS PARA O BRASIL. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Producao-e-Protecao-Importantes-Desafios-para-o-Brasil-sumario-executivo1.pdf

Chicago

Climate Policy Initiative. PRODUO E PROTEO: IMPORTANTES DESAFIOS PARA O BRASIL. 2013. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Producao-e-Protecao-Importantes-Desafios-para-o-Brasil-sumario-executivo1.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{climatepolicyinitiative2013produo, author = {{Climate Policy Initiative}}, title = {{PRODUO E PROTEO: IMPORTANTES DESAFIOS PARA O BRASIL}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2013}, month = dec, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Producao-e-Protecao-Importantes-Desafios-para-o-Brasil-sumario-executivo1.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }