Settlements of the North of Mato Grosso: The productive diversity, the commercialization channels and the service to the forest code
family farming, commercialization, environmental regularization
The policy of agrarian reform and the consequent implementation of rural settlements is of fundamental importance for the rural development strategies of the country. So much that, currently, Brazil has constituted 9,426 settlement projects that correspond to 87.34 million hectares of reformed area, distributed in 2,102 municipalities with 972,046 settled families. In the legal Amazon, there are 625,655 settled families, which occupy an area of 76,958,858.68 hectares, equivalent to 88.1% of the area destined to agrarian reform in Brazil. However, although agrarian reform is important for regional development, this dynamic has raised issues related to the environmental agenda and includes settlements as direct participants in the process of forest conversion to other uses. Specifically in the state of Mato Grosso, the environmental agenda takes on strength from the Arco do Fogo and Arco Verde and Arco Verde operations, since, in 2008, agrarian reform settlements appear as leaders in the process of deforestation in the region. This situation forces INCRA to make adjustments in environmental management in the settlements so that it can comply with the provisions of Law 12.651 / 2013 and CONAMA Resolution 489/2014. In order to do so, it establishes a partnership with the University of Brasília (UNB), which, through the RADIS project, began to perform Agrarian Systems Diagnosis and Environmental Regulation in 41 municipalities in the north of Mato Grosso, covering 27,573 families, distributed in 111 settlements. RADIS focuses its approach from three axes of action: a) environmental regularization of settlements in the North of Mato Grosso, with the elaboration of the Rural Ambient Record of lots (CAR) and elaboration of Projects for the Environmental Recovery of Degraded Areas (PRADA) ; b) adaptation of the production models and economic strengthening, aptir of the diagnosis of agrarian systems; c) research related to environmental, economic and social issues. From this action and to correlate the productive diversification and the commercialization channels with the service to the forest code in the settlements Jurena I and Paloma, in the north of Mato Grosso, this work was enhanced with the respective collection of the information inserted in the database of the RADIS project, which were extracted and organized into excel spreadsheets to enable data analysis. The data used for the study refer to social, productive and environmental variables, such as: establishment period of the settlement, date of entry of the family into the lot, land regularity, agricultural and livestock production, commercialization and environmental regularity. In this way, it was possible to analyze the profile and the productive diversity of the settled families, to identify the commercialization channels, the environmental situation and to correlate them with the service to the forest code. For the environmental evaluation data were used referring to the area destined to the permanent preservation area; areas with deforestation occurred before 2008 (consolidated areas - Law 12.651 / 2012), areas with deforestation occurred after 2008; area for infrastructure, water mirror and native vegetation area.