GOV4: Reducing deforestation in the Amazon: Environmental planning & consumer pressure

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1 GOV4: Reducing deforestation in the Amazon: Environmental planning & consumer pressure LAND USE REGULATIONS IN THE STATE OF PARÁ, BRAZIL: AN OVERVIEW OF ITS GUIDELINES Washington, DC April 26 and 27, 2010

2 ITERPA - Land Institute of Pará Created in October 8, 1975, the ITERPA is an indirect State Government administration agency, that enforces the agrarian policy. Mission To collaborate in the territorial arrangement and on the administration of the state agrarian patrimony expecting social and economical development, prioritizing to assure land access for family agriculture.

3 World and the Brazilian Amazon Europe Brazil Pará

4 km² Brazil = 8,5 milhões km² Brazilian Amazon = 5,5 milhões km²

5 Pará in Europe Germany + Italy + Belgium + Austria + Switzerland + Slovenia + Luxemburg + Czech Republic + Holland + Hungary + Denmark + Croatia + Slovakia km² = State of Pará Florida is only 13,6% of the total area of Pará

6 State of Pará 7,4 milion inhabitants 144 Municipalities

7 Indigenous Lands ha 24,36% of the State

8 Federal Protected Areas ha 14,46% of the State

9 State Protected Areas ha 10,71 % of the State

10 51,26% ( ha) of the State are Protect Areas and Indigenous Land

11 Federal Areas ha 24,00% of the land

12 State Areas ha 16,00 % of the land

13 ha 48,36% are Federal and State Areas

14 Macro Ecologic-Economic Zonin of Brazilian Amazonia

15 Environmental Zoning (EZ) in Pará EZ East Zone and Zone Flume North: 113 Municipalities km2 EZ EZ West Zone: 19 Municipalities km2

16 Conflicts over Natural Resources Protected Areas Mining Timbering Soy LAND Cattle Raising Indian Peasant Urbanization

17 Criteria of Intervention Territorial Ordinance Land Use Regularization

18 Phases of Rural Land Tenure Regularization Program 1- Land Scanning and Land Tenure Regularization process Issuance of Property titles 2- Inclusion of properties Identification in the Environmental database Environmental Licencing 3- Private financing for land purchases State Fund for Territorial Planning

19 Goals Transparent and democratic land use management Access to the development of different social and economic activities properties will be bound by its social and environmental functions Cooperation with Federal, State, Municipal Powers and Civil Society

20 Social and Political Purposes of Land Use Regularization Reduction of rural violence and human rights violations Ensure property rights to different social segments Reduce deforestation and indice more sustainable practices

21 Land Tenure Regularization and Territorial Ordinance Control over public lands Destination of public lands, according different land uses and availability of natural resources Fundiary Regularization rules to regularized already occupied lands

22 Constitutional Requirements Average levels of productivity Conservation of natural resources Observation of labor law regulations

23 Criteria for Destination of Public Lands in case of Concurrent Interests Indigenous groups Conservation and protection of traditional groups Municipal donations have priority over land tenure regularization for agrarian purposes Rural settlements and small properties Medium and large properties

24 Requisites for Land Tenure Regularization Continuous possession; Effective use of the land for no less than one year for small properties and five year for Medium and large properties; Inexistence of opposition of a third part; Inexistence of other rural ownership rights; That he/she did not receive any other concession of land or any incentive from the agrarian reform program; An adequate use of natural resources.

25 Municipal Land Use Scanning Consists in scanning the whole municipal s territory identifying the land occupation (individual farmers, quilombola communities, protected areas, indigenous lands, urban areas, etc) Regardless the existence of property rights or compliance with environmental regulations using GPS (global positioning system) technology to build a land use scenario Propose a integrated land tenure and environmental regularization program.

26 Phases of Municipal Land Use Scanning Predecessor stage Registry phase Georeferencing phase Land tenure regularization phase

27 Georeferenced Property Titles

28 Land Use Scanning at the Municipality of Rondon do Pará

29 Land Use Scanning at the Municipality of Dom Eliseu

30 Municipal Land Use Scanning: Results Identification of roads Issuance of individual titles Identification of urban areas and land donation for urban purposes Quilombolas communities Creation of settlement projects

31 Property Titles Scanned and Included in State s Land Database Preparation of documents Digital conversion of documents

32 Registry Informational Database Scanned Information Database

33 Digitization Process of Public Registries in Pará

34 Land Tenure Regularization Program and Territorial Planning Scheme Environmental Registry Environmental Regularization Land Tenure Regularization Regulations to overcome land problems Env. Regulations to compensate env. damages Env. Zoning Land Tenure Regularization Georeferenced and Registered properties Land Tenure regularization Development Support Modernization of Agrarian Activities Private financing of Agrarian Activities Cooperation between State and Civil Society Issuance of Property rights Fiscal Incentives Land Tenure regularization regulations Pest Control Institutional Phase Prof. Dr. 1 José Heder Benatti Phase 2 President Phase of 3Land Institute of Pará (Iterpa) Brazil improvements

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