Environmental Institute From Mato Grosso do Sul State (Imasul)
Promote the implementation of the Rural Environmental Registry (known as CAR) in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul
Beneficiaries Owners or squatters of family farming properties with up to four fiscal modules and settlements located in rural areas of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul
Territorial scope State of Mato Grosso do Sul
The state of Mato Grosso do Sul, located in the central-western region of the country, has an area of 357,000 km2 and a population of 2.8 million people (2021)¹. Agricultural activity has great relevance in its territory, especially soybean culture and beef cattle. The state covers three important Brazilian biomes: Cerrado, Mata Atlântica and Pantanal.
The Forest Code (Law No. 12651/2012) defines the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) as the national electronic public registry, mandatory for all rural properties, in order to integrate environmental information from rural properties and possessions, composing a database for control, monitoring, environmental and economic planning and combating deforestation.
The state of Mato Grosso do Sul has been developing initiatives to improve environmental monitoring and control, including investments in the modernization of its environmental management and licensing systems, such as the development of the IMASUL System for Registration and Strategic Environmental Information (SIRIEMA). This project, through support for the implementation of the CAR, was a new step in the State's environmental regularization policy, working as an instrument to monitor and support the recovery of environmental liabilities of rural properties.
The Institute of Environment of Mato Grosso do Sul - Imasul is a state autarchy linked to the State Secretariat of Environment, Economic Development, Production and Family Agriculture, whose mission is to promote environmental management, proposing and implementing policies and actions aimed at the sustainable development of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.
The support of the Amazon Fund to the project was framed in the forecast of its regulations that up to 20% of its resources can be used in the development of systems for monitoring and controlling deforestation in other Brazilian biomes and in other tropical countries.
The project aimed to promote the implementation of the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and was structured into two components: (i) improvement of infrastructure and training of public agents for the implementation of CAR and (ii) promotion and support for registration and validation in CAR.
The project's target audience consists of owners or squatters of rural properties with up to four fiscal modules, state and federal rural settlements and the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, through actions to train public agents and improve infrastructure.
The project is part of the “monitoring and control” component (2) of the Logical Framework of the Amazon Fund. Its direct effects were defined as follows: (2.1) “institutions for environmental monitoring, control and accountability in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul structured and modernized for the implementation and management of the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR)” and (2.2) “expanded access of rural producers in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul to the environmental regularization of their properties”.
The strengthening of the state environmental agency of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul (Imasul) and the registration of rural properties in the CAR directly contribute to the adequacy of anthropogenic activities to environmental legislation, which, in turn, contributes to the objective of reducing deforestation with sustainable development.
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| Date of approval | 09.23.2014 |
| Date of the contract | 12.02.2014 |
| Date of conclusion | 11.29.2022 | Disbursement period | 90 months (from the date the contract was signed) |
| date | amount | |
|---|---|---|
| 1º disbursements | 12.15.2015 | R$1,416,050.00 |
| 2º disbursements | 03.29.2017 | R$2,405,446.58 |
| 3º disbursements | 04.26.2018 | R$753,862.72 |
| Total amount disbursed | R$4,575,359.30 |
In order to improve Imasul's infrastructure for the implementation of the CAR, notebooks, high-resolution monitors, multimedia projectors, GPS devices, memory modules, audio conferencing devices, 50 microcomputers and two pickup trucks were acquired.
A consultancy was hired that carried out 22,910 registrations of rural properties with up to four fiscal modules that develop agricultural activities in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, covering all 79 municipalities in the state.
The planned training in Arcgis was not carried out, since the application was updated and the training was included in the service, generating savings for the project. The last planned action was also not carried out, which was to analyze the records of the properties registered in the CAR.
The project activities contributed to the results related to the “monitoring and control” component (1) of the Amazon Fund Logical Framework.
The following are the results of some agreed indicators for monitoring the expected effects.
The goal of properties registered in the CAR was partially achieved (88%). However, this fact resulted from the absence of the need to use project resources for this purpose, since a part of the small rural owners registered their properties with their own resources, simultaneously with the execution of the project.
From this perspective, the goal of just over 26,000 properties of small rural producers enrolled in the CAR was fully achieved, with savings of resources for the project, since at the end of the execution of the project more than 40,000 properties of up to four fiscal modules had been enrolled in the CAR.
A Technical Cooperation Agreement was signed between IMASUL and the Agrarian Development and Rural Extension Agency – AGRAER, an autarchy of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, aiming at carrying out actions for promoting and supporting the environmental regularization of rural properties.
This cooperation was important for the project especially with regard to the actions of adhesion and registration of properties in the CAR.
The project underwent a reduction in its scope and the value of support from the Amazon Fund, and the last action planned was not carried out, which would be to analyze the registrations of properties registered in the CAR, to verify the declared data of rural properties and verify their adequacy to Brazilian forest legislation.
Various factors contributed to this. The first was the time required to complete the dynamic analysis module of the CAR, developed by the Brazilian Forest Service - SFB, a federal public administration body.
This tool aims to speed up the analysis of the more than six million registrations registered at the base of the Rural Environmental Registration System (SICAR), throughout the national territory, through the use of georeferencing technologies to automatically verify the information declared in the CAR.
Once the CAR dynamic analysis module was developed by SFB, it was necessary to conclude a Technical Cooperation Agreement between IMASUL and SFB, in order to enable the execution of the analysis of rural environmental records by the project, and this stage of signing the cooperation agreement also required an extended period.
Finally, IMASUL faced difficulties in carrying out the bidding for the contracting of the company that would provide the support services for the analysis of the registrations of the properties registered in the CAR in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.
After the completion of the execution of the project, Imasul continued activities related to the implementation of the CAR, highlighting the procedures to implement the analysis of the properties registered in the CAR.
With the project there was an increase in the possibility of access to rural credit for small farmers, since by legal provision financial institutions only grant agricultural credit, in any of its modalities, to owners of rural properties that are registered in the CAR.
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Federal University of Pará (UFPA) and the Research Development and Support Foundation (Fadesp)
State of Mato Grosso
State of Tocantins
Institute of Environment and Hydric Resources in the State of Bahia (INEMA) – Bahia state/State Secretariat for Environmental Development
Native Amazon Operation (OPAN)
Tropical Forest Institute (IFT)
