RIO DE JANEIRO STATE GOVERNMENT

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1 RIO DE JANEIRO STATE GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT OF AGRICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUPERINTENDENCE SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME IN MICRO-WATERSHEDS RIO RURAL PROGRAMME Nelson Teixeira Alves Filho Executive Secretary Helga Hissa Technical Coordinator Multistakeholder Dialogue on the Remuneration of Positive Externalities (RPE) and Payments for Environmental Services (PES) FAO/Rome, September 12th, 2013

2 1st STEP - GEF ( ) 2nd. STEP - BIRD ( ) EMERGENCY (2011) BIRD - RESTRUCTURED (2011) ADITIONAL FUND ( ) US$14 million US$79 million US$18,7 million US$79 million US$140 million 24 municipalities 59 municipalities 10 municipalities 59 municipalities 72 municipalities 48 micro-watersheds ha (8,8%) families 270 micro-watersheds ha (26,7%) families 62 micro-watersheds families = 200 microwatersheds 366 micro-watersheds ha (40%) families UPSCALING RIO RURAL Fase PROGRAM 1 (GEF) INVESTMENTS, COVERAGE, BENEFICIARIES FROM PILOT TO POLICY Fase 2 (BIRD) Increase government commitment Strategic Approach Focus on long term actions and interventions meeting the main territorial challenges Font: IBGE, 2010 RJ Total Population: 16 million - Urban: 96,7% - Rural: 3,3% GDP: US$ 704 billion Agricultural GDP: 1,2% 92 municipalities Total Area: ,3 Km2 Second Consumer Market

3 MAIN RESULTS/IMPACTS PILLARS OF PROGRAME S SUSTAINABILITY Community engagement and self management Participatory, bottom-up approach, focus on smallholders Transparency IE, MRV Incorporation of technologies for income generation and long term provision of ES Market-efficient Eco-friendly productive chains Integrated to Public and private initiatives 78,000 farmers involved in watershed committees, planning and diagnosis activities (85% of the total farmers in RJ); 47,000 farmers benefited with financial incentives for adoption of sustainable practices; 34,187 km of rivers with reduced release of organic waste (rural sanitation infrastructure) and sediments, 2016 springs protected until Potential to protect up to 14,600 in partnership (2018); 87,200 beneficiaries, technicians, teachers and municipal managers engaged in education, training and awareness raising activities; Research Network involving researchers, extension workers and farmers; 2.5 million ha (95% of total agricultural lands) with sustainable production systems in 366 micro-watersheds located in 72 municipalities (twice the area of environmental protection units in RJ)

4 ES PROVIDERS ES POTENTIAL INVESTORS / BUYERS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE + $$$ FOR TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION + MONITORING RECOVERY OF DEGRADED LANDS (PASTURE) LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR FOREST CONSERVATION -Forest Code -Environment Compensation - Green ICMS WATERSHED MANAGEMENT

5 RESTORATION OF DEGRADED AREAS + ROTATIONAL GRAZING SYSTEM Higher Productivity Recovery of degraded areas Spring protection Recovery of pastures Reuse of waste (manure) HIGHER INCOME GENERATION +SOCIAL EMPOWERMENT= LONG TERM ES Food security SPRING PROTECTION + AGROECOLOGICAL CROP SYSTEM WITH ORGANIC / GREEN MANURE Organic products

6 CO-INVESTMENT AND FUNDRAISING TOTAL CO-INVESTMENT: US$16.4 million Integração metodológica e coinvestimentos com Comitês de Bacias NATIONAL USS 1.5 million Call for Projects (Food Security, Income Generation, Technical Assistance) INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS Client (German Gov): US$ 4.5 million GEF: US$ 4,34 million - pending STATE GOV US$ 5.1 million (Sanitation project / Fecam, Research & Innovation to smallholders) MUNICIPALITIES - PES / RPPNs Varre-Sai - US$ 15,600 REGIONAL US$ 5.2 million Watershed Committes, Private Sector, NGOs (Environmental projects, Research & Innovation) FARMERS LOCAL COMMITTEES US$ 47,000 (counterparts)

7 - Networking supports social organization and promoting long term ES; - ES as a joint action among smallholders strengthen community organization and higher efficiency of environmental impacts - Water is an essential component for community engagement Challenges/Future Outlook - High costs of monitoring turns verification unfeasable. Using participatory approaches can generate either consistent data and community ownership - Establishment of short, medium and long term indicators of results Incentives contribute to incorporation of techology by smallholders. Sustainability of ES should be a positive consequence of this process -Increased productivity with efficient technologies and income generation are conditions to make ES selfsustained - Incentive allows TA for environmental awareness raising, also encouraging adoption of sustainable practices (ES) - Participatory planning, diagnosis and monitoring tools facilitates dialogue between social demands and public/ private offers (interests) - Private sector is poorly engaged on ES schemes limited to legal obligations and CSR; vision focused on shortterm targets, while SRD requires medium and long-term results -Development of a collaborative market for environmental services AND environmental friendly agricultural products; -Improvement of national rural credit to include environment services in their schemes; - Implementation of joint collective ES among smallholders strengthen community organization and raise efficiency of environmental impacts

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9 MAIN IMPACTS OF RIO RURAL ( ) 78,000 farmers involved (85% of the total farmers in RJ) 47,000 farmers benefited with direct incentives for adoption of sustainable practices 44,889 km of rivers with conservation practices, of which: 34,187 km of rivers with reduced release of organic waste (rural sanitation infrastructure) 6,000 km of local roads maintained reducing the level of sediments in water bodies 2016 springs protected until Potential to protect up to 14,600 in partnership (2018) 87,200 beneficiaries, technicians, teachers and municipal managers engaged in education, training and awareness raising processes Research Network involving researchers, extension workers and farmers 2.5 million ha (95% of total agricultural lands) with sustainable production systems in 366 microwatersheds located in 72 municipalities (twice the area of environmental protection units in RJ)