AFS Adoption Motivational Primer for Degraded Areas Reclamation at the Northwest Region of Rio de Janeiro state
Agroforestry systems, environmental education and agroecological practices
In the Brazilian panorama, where there is a rarity of rural properties that have a legal reserve, the AFS is a promising alternative to economic stimulus to the restoration of these areas, as well as of the areas of APP. All the small and large landowners should have an area of forest that should no longer be be regarded as the unproductive area of the land, since it is possible to exploit it in a with the AFS culture. The search for alternatives to comply with the Brazilian legislation, through low-cost practices that generate income, guaranteeing the preservation from the integration between preservation and production, is an important tool for convincing and facilitating work with rural producers, as well as for the success of the practice. Another important feature to be considered, is that it is a form of cultivation that does not generate the need for many
inputs, making it possible for most AFS to be 100% organic. greater health and food security for families,
greening of properties, resulting in a series of ecosystem services provided forests. Faced with the scarcity of educational material that brings together all necessary for the implementation of this type of system, presenting a simple and the present work is based, since it will seek to show to the producer the step by step of the implementation of an agroforestry system respecting the legislation for the recovery of degraded areas.