General

The project aims to reduce deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon by working through five themes: contribute to the end of deforestation on public lands at the hands of land grabbing and land speculation; improve the governance of land use and tenure in undesignated public forests; produce tools to protect the land rights of IPLCs; support the Amazonian states in constructing sustainable initiatives; engage the national and international market forces and consumers.

General

This project aims to to engage CSOs in inclusive dialogues to develop and submit recommendations by 2025 on land rights, forest governance, living wages and child labour to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Ministry of Youth Affairs, the Ministry of Gender and Children Affairs and the Produce Monitoring Board of the Ministry of Trade and Industry.

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we have supported ANAPO, FEGASACRUZ (soy and livestock producer organizations), and CSOs FAN and AVINA to advocate for the improvement and enforcement of environmental regulations, and to work together with the government to review, adapt, implement and enforce the environmental legal framework. These CSOs were convened into a MSP, and worked collaboratively with the Authority for the Supervision of Forest and Land (ABT) to improve its processes and strengthen their enforcement capacities. As a result, the ABT improved and automated the approval process of land use rights, making it more accessible, transparent and efficient (reducing the permit approval process from 20 days to 15 minutes). ABT made staff capacity available to do more field monitoring and control. They have also adopted geospatial monitoring systems to get daily updates on changes in the land use, and an early warning system for fires, that facilitates the detection of fire sources in real time. Trading company Cargill received advice to improve its legal compliance checklist as a result of the discussions held in the multi stakeholder platform. This would work as an incentive (from the market side) for farmers' compliance with the environmental regulations. The political instability in the country influenced the high rotation of staff and the absence of the National Institute for Agrarian Reform (INRA) in the dialogue platform. In 2020 we supported INRA to identify the priority improvements in relation to producers’ land titling and land planning that will be further worked out over the course of 2021.