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LOCAL AGROECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE:
ROADS TO ADAPTING TO CLIMATE
CHANGE AND RESTORATION
OF THE CAATINGA BIOME
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In the case of Pintadas, a city in the state of Bahia,
production with native species has contributed
to the restoration of the Caatinga biome and
helps generate income for local farmers. This was
made possible through the project "Agroforestry
Practices adapted to climate change for the
restoration of the Brazilian Semiarid Region:
Caatinga", fruit of a partnership with Ser do
Sertão Cooperative (Coopsertão) and funded
through the Good Energies Foundation.
The history of the cooperative is certainly a source
of inspiration. It tells of women's empowerment,
incentives for reforestation and drawing on
the local population's traditional knowledge.
A fruit pulp factory run by women from the
cooperative buys fruit native to the Caatinga
biome from local farmers, who are mostly also
all women. This encourages farmers to plant
and conserve native species, thereby creating
a market so that these farmers, both women
and men, restore landscapes with fruit trees.
In 2018, as part of the project, WRI Brasil launched
a working paper entitled "Local agroecological
knowledge: roads to adapting to climate change
and restoration of the Caatinga biome". It also
organized capacity-building workshops with leaders
from the cooperative and formed a partnership
with Coopsertão, while conducting research,
collecting data and staging actions to engage
local farmers. In upcoming stages of the project,
our activities seek to insert the Cooperative into
the regional market, while also streamlining
managerial activities. Market research for the
factory's field of expertise included the compilation
of data to establish relationships with potential
clients and markets prone to expansion. To
improve management, training sessions were
staged, aimed both at financial management and
intelligent practices in agroforestry systems and
restoration to help control cooperative activities
and expand the scope of action by local players
in terms of restoration and climate issues.
PRÓ-RESTAURA
Promoting an economic approach to forest
restoration in Brazil is the challenge undertaken
as part of the Pró-Restaura project, funded by the
German Ministry of the Environment through the
IKI initiative. The project has established a series
of leading objectives: compliance with policies,
goals and international commitments assumed
by Brazil, such as the restoration of 12 million
hectares by 2030, and mapping, governance,
financing and catalyzing of actions to increase
the scale of restoration. As such, three priority
landscapes were selected, in line with the scope of
the project: the Paraíba Valley, in São Paulo, the
Rio Doce Basin, in Minas Gerais, and the Itaúnas
and São Mateus do Norte River Basins, both in the
state of Espírito Santo. Pró-Restaura is expected to
create the necessary conditions to restore 500,000
hectares in these three priority landscapes, along
with the development of financial mechanism
to attract US$ 10 million in funding.
In 2018, beside mapping local actors in the
three regions defined, the project also focused
on other field activities and analyses, including
the assessment of preliminary results from a
study on the legal requirements for restoration,
a preliminary analysis of financial mechanisms
for restoration and appraisal of the initial
proposals for the restoration monitoring system
for said areas. The project scope also supports
institutions that work with the sustainable use
of land to promote more efficient restoration
and on a larger scale, with better management of
available resources, whether human or financial.
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