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PUBLICATIONS MAPPING SOCIAL LANDSCAPES MAPEAMENTO DE PAISAGENS SOCIAIS READ LOCAL AGROECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE: ROADS TO ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND RESTORATION OF THE CAATINGA BIOME LEIA 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. 28 WRIbrasil.org.br WRI BRASIL 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 29 29
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