Brazil’s fund for low-carbon agriculture lies fallow

Ângelo, Cláudio Felisoni de

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“…Targeting land-use change will achieve 95% of the maximum abatement resulting from a comprehensive mitigation policy, which includes all land-related emission sources and sinks. Few national policy processes recognize the key role of livestock in reducing pressure on land expansion and direct emissions; this includes those designed to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, such as Brazil's low-carbon agriculture program (44). Livestock sector policies need to be coordinated-providing appropriate financial incentives, facilitating institutional change for rural development, and implementing novel technology diffusion mechanisms, for instance-if desirable food security and social and environmental outcomes are to be achieved in concert.…”

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Climate change mitigation through livestock system transitions

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Valin

Herrero

et al. 2014

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Livestock are responsible for 12% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Sustainable intensification of livestock production systems might become a key climate mitigation technology. However, livestock production systems vary substantially, making the implementation of climate mitigation policies a formidable challenge. Here, we provide results from an economic model using a detailed and high-resolution representation of livestock production systems. We project that by 2030 autonomous transitions toward more efficient systems would decrease emissions by 736 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year (MtCO 2 e·y −1 ), mainly through avoided emissions from the conversion of 162 Mha of natural land. A moderate mitigation policy targeting emissions from both the agricultural and land-use change sectors with a carbon price of US$10 per tCO 2 e could lead to an abatement of 3,223 MtCO 2 e·y −1 . Livestock system transitions would contribute 21% of the total abatement, intra-and interregional relocation of livestock production another 40%, and all other mechanisms would add 39%. A comparable abatement of 3,068 MtCO 2 e·y −1 could be achieved also with a policy targeting only emissions from land-use change. Stringent climate policies might lead to reductions in food availability of up to 200 kcal per capita per day globally. We find that mitigation policies targeting emissions from land-use change are 5 to 10 times more efficient-measured in "total abatement calorie cost"-than policies targeting emissions from livestock only. Thus, fostering transitions toward more productive livestock production systems in combination with climate policies targeting the land-use change appears to be the most efficient lever to deliver desirable climate and food availability outcomes.productivity | food security | marginal abatement cost | deforestation | mathematical programming

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Section: Reducing Emissions From Land-use Change Is a Promising Waymentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate change mitigation through livestock system transitions

Havlík

Valin

Herrero

et al. 2014

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…This type of approach to increase productivity has been promoted as a form land sparing to prevent the loss of stored carbon under the assumption that new areas will not be opened for agriculture (Pacheco et al 2013 (Kichel et al 2014). Brazil's Low-Carbon Agriculture (ABC) programme was launched in 2010 (Brazil 2010), and this programme further incentivizes implementation of ICLFS through provision of low-interest loans, although uptake has been slow (Angelo 2012;Strassburg et al 2014). However, land sparing is a difficult conservation strategy because financial success of more productive commercial agriculture leads to more, rather than less, clearing for agricultural expansion (e.g.…”

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Biodiversity, threats and conservation challenges in the Cerrado of Amapá, an Amazonian savanna

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Hilário³

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An Amazonian savanna in northern Brazil known as the Cerrado of Amapá is under imminent threat from poor land-use planning, the expansion of large-scale agriculture and other anthropogenic pressures. These savannas house a rich and unique flora and fauna, including endemic plants and animals. However, the area remains under-sampled for most taxa, and better sampling may uncover new species. We estimate that only ~9.16% of these habitats have any kind of protection, and legislative changes threaten to further weaken or remove this protection. Here we present the status of knowledge concerning the biodiversity of the Cerrado of Amapá, its conservation status, and the main threats to the conservation of this Amazonian savanna. To secure the future of these unique and imperilled habitats, we suggest urgent expansion of protected areas, as well as measures that would promote less-damaging land uses to support the local population.

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“…No entanto, este programa tem tido muito pouca adesão, o que pode estar atrelado a vários fatores. Por exemplo, a fraca publicidade e a existência de exigências ambientais mais rigorosas do que outros empréstimos agrícolas (Angelo, 2012); a falta de conhecimento técnico necessário para o acesso aos empréstimos (Nepstad et al, 2014); limitações de logística e infraestrutura, falta de assistência técnica e dificuldades para treinar técnicos e produtores (Embrapa, 2016).…”

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“…Nonetheless, this program has had little uptake so far, which might be associated to several factors. For instance, poor publicity and stricter environmental requirements than other agricultural loans (Angelo, 2012), lack of technical expertise required to access the loans (Nepstad et al, 2014), infrastructure and logistics limitations, lack of technical assistance, and difficulties to train technicians and producers (Embrapa, 2016).…”

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houses a rich collection divided into six exhibitions, as well as the ancient furniture of the Palace of Government -whose governmental hall has been preserved. The several exhibition rooms are occupied by means of periodical public bidding. The architectonic configuration of the building makes it technically able to receive large and simultaneous exhibitions, besides the permanent exposure of its collection.The State Pinacotheca is also an education tool as it receives around 1,000 visitors per month. Most of them, students from public and private schools from the capital or rural areas, monitored by teachers that discuss the artworks and their relevance to the culture of the state.The collection has the works of the main artists of the State, including those considered the art precursors in Rio Grande do Norte, as Moura Rabelo, Hostílio Dantas, Newton Navarro and Dorian Gray. The last two ones are taken as the introducers of modern art in the State in 1949.Creative diversity is one of the marks of the Pinacotheca's collection, in which artists such as Abraham Palatinik, Antonio Parreiras, Fayga Ostrower, Cícero Dias, Rubens Gershman, Tarsila do Amaral, Raul Córdula, Maria do Santíssimo, Iaponi, Thomé Filgueira, Aécio Emerenciano, Leopoldo Nelson, Tulio Fernandes, Manxa, Jordão, Ana Antunes, Iaperi, Vicente Vitoriano, among others, demonstrate the aesthetic plurality of the artistic creation in the State converging towards different expressions of the several styles of art creation. Brasil em números / Brazil in figures 2016Algumas características do acervo diferenciam a Pinacoteca do Estado. Um grande número de pintores naifs com sua arte embasada na cultura popular, até por ser uma expressão in sita, natural e espontânea sem necessidade de uma formação acadêmica. Nesse particular Iaponi (1942Iaponi ( -1984 e Maria do Santíssimo (1890Santíssimo ( -1974 pelo renome nacional que conseguiram com exposições no Brasil e no exterior se constituem nos dois dos maiores nomes da arte primitiva do acervo.Da mesma forma, o entalhe em madeira em grandes painéis vazados é peculiar à arte do Rio Grande do Norte pela expressão dos artistas Manxa (1947Manxa ( -2014 e Jordão que integrados na expressão naif recortaram em madeira, alguns com espaços em laminas de cobre marchetadas, personagens, ofícios e toda flora tropical do Rio Grande do Norte.Constam ainda do acervo coleções de xilogravuras, litogravuras esculturas e instalações e objetos de artistas populares como Luzia Dantas e Zé da China.O acervo das artes visuais da Pinacoteca é mantido pela Fundação José Augusto foi formado gradativamente, ao longo dos anos na sua grande maioria por doação dos artistas. Este acervo circula pelas mais de 40 Casas de Cultura no interior do estado, recebendo um grande público de alunos das escolas públicas em visita comentada por técnicos e acompanhada por professores de educação artística.As manifestações artísticas do Rio Grande do Norte demonstram a intensa criatividade do seu povo. Artistas que Some characteristics make the collect...

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