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Low-Carbon Emission Agriculture Plan
- ABC Plan-
Edson J. Leite
Forester
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply of Brazil
Grain
Production
+847%
X
+
127%
1960
Population
(Millions)
Had Brazil kept the same
technology of the 1960s, it
would have taken over 145
million hectares of land,i.e.,195
million ha
Avoided deforestation
2011
190,7
70
Grain Production
(millions of tonnes)
Area
(millions ha)
Productivity
(kilograms per hectare)
1 = 10 millions of inhabitants
17,2
22
0,783
1 = 10 millions of tonnes
163
50
+ 847%
+ 127%
3,3
+ 321,5%
1 = 300 kilograms per hectare
Livestock
Cattle
+251%
Cattle
+41%
Had Brazil kept the same
production technology of the
1960s, it would have allocated
more than 474 million hectares
of land to pasture, i.e., 642
million ha
Area
Avoided deforestation
1960
Cattle
(million of cattle - animal)
58
Pasture area
122,3
Productivity
0,47
(millions
per hectare)
(heads per hectare)
1 = 10 millions of
inhabitants
2011
1 = 10 millions of tonnes
204
+ 251%
172
1,2
1 = 300 kilograms per
hectare
Foreign Trade
US$94,5
billion
Exporter
215 DESTINATIONS
1960 BRAZIL
FOOD IMPORTER
2012 BRAZIL
Source: SECEX/MDIC
CHALLENGES TO AGRICULTURE
 World: Population growth
 Brazil: Increasing agricultural exports;
 Consumption standard x Production standard ;
 Recovery of Degraded Areas;
 Elimination of illegal deforestation;
 Rational and efficient use of water resources;
CHALLENGES TO AGRICULTURE
 Compensation for environmental services;
 Carbon Credit;
 Demand for a safe and certified food;
 Sustainable Agriculture;
 Greenhouse Gases (GHGs);
 Global warming and climate change;
 Land tenure issues, particularly in the Amazon;
Sustainable practices in agriculture:
Treatment of animal waste
Planted forests
No-Tillage System
Recovery of degraded areas
SAF’s
Biological Nitrogen Fixation
Integration Systems’ and Conservation
Practices’ Benefits
Increase of carbon retention;
GHG emissions reduction;
Reducing the needs for new deforestation areas;
Soil quality and productive recovery;
Reduction of rainwater runoff and soil erosion;
Greater infiltration of rainwater;
Decrease of soil water evaporation;
Costs Production Decrease and Income increase;
Integration Systems’ and Conservation
Practices’ Benefits
Low pests incidence - less water and pesticides use;
Production Improvement: variety features;
Market and climate risks minimizing;
Animal welfare - trees presence;
Organic soil components and soil microfauna
improvement;
Technologies adapted to small, medium and large
farmers.
ABC Plan origin
During the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on
climate change (COP-15) held in 2009, in the city of Copenhagen, in Denmark, the
Brazilian Government committed itself to, until 2020, reduce their emissions of
Greenhouse Gases between 36.1% and 38.9%. The fulfillment of this goal involves the
following actions:
1) A reduction of 80% in the rate of deforestation in the Amazon and 40% in the
Cerrado.
2) Expand the adoption of sustainable practices in agriculture, through the following
technologies: Recovery of degraded pasture ; Crop-Livestock-Forest Integration
(ILPF) and Agroforestry Systems (SAFs); No-Tillage System (NTS) ; Biological
Nitrogen Fixation (BNF) ; Planted forests ; and Treatment of Animal Waste.
3) Increase energy efficiency by the use of biofuels, hydropower supply and alternative
sources of biomass, wind and small hydropower plants, and use in steelmaking coal
from planted forests
Preservation X Production
Vilela, 2005
Elvison (MS), 2012
contribution
Integreted
System
and
Sustainable
production
pratices
Contribution
Preservation
Sustainable Production
Thank You!
Edson J. Leite
Forester
Reasearcher at Embrapa seconded to the
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply of Brazil
Tel.: +5561 3218-2448
Email: [email protected]