CONTEXTUALIZATION

The Land and Territorial Management Axis (III) of the Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (PPCDAM) establishes that “regulating and promoting land access rights and proposing guidelines for the occupation and use of the territory on sustainable bases has strong potential to curb the dynamics of deforestation in the region, strengthening the presence of the State in order to curb persistent practices of land grabbing of public lands, uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources, and impunity for environmental crimes in the region.” In this sense, strengthening the presence of the State to, among other objectives, reduce deforestation involves identifying and incorporating unallocated public lands still existing in the Legal Amazon into the Union’s assets, as well as improving information on land tenure and property.

This requires the implementation of an integrated system capable of eliminating the dispersion of existing databases, facilitating decision-making related to compliance with legal requirements for the legitimization of rights. Furthermore, PPCDAM also recommends the allocation of public forests through the restructuring of the Technical Chamber for Allocation and Land Regularization of Federal Rural Public Lands, in addition to strengthening the role of protected areas, among other measures.

THE PROJECT

The project seeks to strengthen land governance in the Legal Amazon and contribute to the land regularization of settlements and public lands. Investments will be used to enhance territorial intelligence, modernize databases, expand the operational capacity of Incra and federative entities, and promote georeferencing and land regularization of public lands and settlements. To achieve these objectives and address identified bottlenecks, the project is structured into four components:

Component 1: Strengthening Territorial Intelligence, Integration, and Modernization of Databases and IT Systems. This component aims to support the processing and integration of existing land databases, as well as implement and structure an intelligence center to organize and provide strategic data and information to support decision-making by land governance bodies.

Three main systems will be developed and improved:

• New Rural Registry: Will consolidate land information dispersed across different databases, integrating literal data (owners, records, land use) and spatial data (georeferencing, boundaries, and overlaps). It will enable interoperability with environmental and rural credit systems, supporting regularization and monitoring actions;

• Terras do Brasil Platform: A digital tool for federative land governance, integrating information from state and federal land agencies. The platform will provide interactive maps, thematic dashboards, and indicators on regularization, allocation of public lands, Traditional Peoples and Communities, and land credit, promoting transparency and federative cooperation

• PGT (Territorial Management Platform): A GOV.br environment that centralizes Incra services for the population. The project includes creating new modules, such as monitoring resolutive clauses, urban land regularization, land management of public areas, and services for Quilombola communities.

The component also includes training for system use, data processing and consolidation into a national accessible database, and the physical implementation of the Territorial Intelligence Center in Brasília. This center will operate as a situation room for real-time monitoring, data integration, and technical support for land governance decisions.

Additionally, a computerized system for project management and monitoring will be developed, integrated with Incra systems, serving both project management and other organizational actions.

Component 2: Institutional Strengthening and Operational Capacity at National and Subnational Levels for Land Governance. This component aims to modernize and expand the institutional and technical capacity of Incra, the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Family Farming (MDA), and state and municipal land agencies in the Legal Amazon. Actions include providing vehicles and IT equipment for all Incra Regional Superintendencies and State Land Agencies, as well as technological infrastructure for Incra headquarters and the MDA’s Land Governance Secretariat.

Institutional articulation plans will be developed, and State Technical Chambers for Land Governance will be created, mirroring the Federal Technical Chamber, to support decisions on the allocation and regularization of public lands. A detailed situational survey of land governance in the states will also be produced, including data on land conflicts and administrative structures. At the municipal level, 44 municipalities in the Legal Amazon participating in the Terra Cidadã Program will receive equipment and vehicles to support registration and regularization actions.

Finally, the component will support the inventory and digitization of archives from Real Estate Registry Offices (CRIs) in the Legal Amazon, consolidating information in the Geographic Information System of Real Estate Registry (SIG-RI). This step will enable cross-referencing of georeferenced data, identification of overlaps, and correction of inconsistencies.

Component 3: Georeferencing and Land Regularization. This is the most significant component in terms of financial resources. It includes two strategic products for land regularization:

• Georeferencing of rural properties: An essential step for the allocation of public lands and land regularization, as it is mandatory for issuing definitive land titles, ensuring that properties are properly registered and delimited, providing greater legal security;

• Inspections and land, environmental diagnostics, and review of georeferencing services.

It is estimated that 128 settlement projects will be georeferenced (approximately 6 million hectares and 7,000 beneficiary families) and inspections and diagnostics will be carried out in 49 federal public land parcels, prioritizing strategic PPCDAm areas, socio-environmentally relevant regions, and areas with a history of land conflicts.

Component 4: Project Management

Includes actions for supervision, communication, governance, monitoring, and evaluation of the project. Project management will be the responsibility of Incra, in partnership with MDA.

INTERVENTION LOGIC

The project falls under Component 3 – “Legal Amazon area is territorially organized” – of the Amazon Fund Logical Framework, contributing to the following direct outcomes: 3.1 – Public forests and protected areas expanded.
3.3 – Land areas with regularized tenure status expanded.