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Liabilities of the Forest Code falls with clearing and intensive farming, says survey

08/28/2012

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UFMG Research shows that some measures allied to the new Forest Code diminish the need for recovery from illegally deforested areas
 
The new Forest Code, approved with vetoes and amended by the interim President Dilma Rousseff, reduced by about 12 million acres the size of the Brazilian environmental liabilities - illegally deforested areas that need to be recovered. The new terms, still remaining about 38 million hectares (Mha) pending settlement.

But the requirement that for ruralistas is seen as something that could cripple agriculture in Brazil may not be as problematic as well. A new study shows that steps are taken to offset the liability of legal reserve which is left in the same state forest biome and the size of the area to be recovered falls to about 18 Mha.

And even in this portion does not necessarily mean that there would be loss of food production to plant forest. If grazing areas unproductive and have no aptitude for agriculture are enhanced, it may be possible to release a space of about 15 Mha just for reforestation.

With the two initiatives, one could solve about 78% of the liability issue. For the calculations, only in Mato Grosso would remain 3.4 Mha occupying land suitable. That leaves also 4 Mha of permanent preservation areas (APP), where it is not compensation.

These numbers are the result of a modeling project land use in the country conducted at the Center for Remote Sensing of the Federal University of Minas Gerais. The study aimed to estimate more accurately the situation mesh land in Brazil.

Coordinated by geologist Britaldo Soares-Filho, was commissioned by the Strategic Affairs Secretariat (SAE) of the Presidency in order to show that the losses to agriculture are much smaller than the large farmers have said.



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