- History of grassroots movements & innovative jurisdictional sustainable development policies
- Unregulated frontier expansion has introduced disordered land occupation, crime & high deforestation rates, but also strong social movements to combat these issues
- Pará’s Green Municipalities Program (PMV, 2011-2017) was an early jurisdictional approach to LED-R, including incentives such as priority access to credit & technical assistance for municipalities that achieved removal from the federal deforestation blacklist
- The Cattle Agreement & Grain Protocol have been successful instruments for engaging private sector, civil society & state agencies in reducing deforestation. The Cattle Agreement’s success led to its expansion to other Brazilian Amazon states
- In recent years there have been efforts to harmonize LED-R in the state under a jurisdictional umbrella strategy, with several initiatives announced
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Publication year
2018
Authors
Brandão, F.; Chan, C.; Moreira, T.; Fonseca, F.; McGrath, D.
Language
English
Keywords
deforestation, livelihoods, food security, sustainable development, policy, climate change
Geographic
Brazil
Funders
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB), Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
