@Article{PolizelViPoFeSoBaOm:2021:AnDyLa,
author = "Polizel, Silvia Palotti and Vieira, Rita M{\'a}rcia da Silva
Pinto and Pompeu, Jo{\~a}o Arthur and Ferreira, Yara da Cruz and
Sousa Neto, Er{\'a}clito Rodrigues de and Barbosa, Alexandre
Augusto and Ometto, Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud",
affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto
Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de
Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas
Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
(INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and
{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
title = "Analysing the dynamics of land use in the context of current
conservation policies and land tenure in the Cerrado – MATOPIBA
region (Brazil)",
journal = "Land Use Policy",
year = "2021",
volume = "109",
pages = "e105713",
month = "Oct.",
note = "{Pr{\^e}mio CAPES Elsevier 2023 - ODS 15: Vida terrestre}",
keywords = "Agribusiness, Deforestation, Forest Code, Land use and land cover
change, Native vegetation, Private rural properties.",
abstract = "The side effect of the expansion of agricultural activities in the
Brazilian Cerrado resulted in a loss of its native vegetation,
biodiversity decline, and increasing greenhouse gas emissions.
Recent expansion has mainly occurred in the northern Cerrado, a
region known as MATOPIBA, which is the latest agricultural
frontier in Brazil and is largely cultivated for agricultural
commodities. In this paper, we investigate the spatiotemporal
behaviour of Cerrado vegetation and agricultural areas in the
Cerrado MATOPIBA (CM) region between 1990 and 2017. Moreover, we
analyse the planted area expansion of soybean and other important
crops for the region and their productivity, and examine how
pasturelands have changed over time. We also present a map of
private rural lands and analyse whether they comply with the
national Forest Code (FC) regarding in-farm areas of natural
vegetation that ought to be preserved by law. Finally, we estimate
how much of the current deforestation rates could be avoided in
the CM region if the Soy Moratorium (SoyM) or the FC are
implemented. Results show a loss of almost 8.4 Mha of the Cerrado
vegetation in the study area and an expansion of 4.3 Mha of
agricultural lands between 1990 and 2017. Our analysis indicates
that soybean planted areas expanded by 326% between 2000 and 2017
and that soybean average productivity increased from 2483 kg/ha in
2000 to2906 kg/ha in 2017. In addition to soybean, other crops
also contributed to the agribusiness economy in the CM region,
with corn being the crop with the greatest expansion of planted
areas over the same period (643,443 ha), and cotton the
cultivation with the highest increase in productivity (from 2300
kg/ha to 3822 kg/ha) in these 17 analysed years. Pasturelands
expanded from 6.4 Mha in 2000 9.8 Mha in 2017. In 2018, private
rural properties consisted of only 7188 large properties and
occupied 19.5 Mha, whereas small and medium properties accounted
for 136,586 farms and covered a total of only 17.5 Mha. With
respect to the national FC, the deficit of preservation areas in
the CM region, in relation to the agricultural area of each
municipality, totalled almost 1.4 Mha in 2017, with large
properties responsible for 57% of this deficit. Looking at the
policies and mechanisms to protect the native vegetation of the CM
region, we have that 17,219,250 ha can still be deforested on the
rural properties in this region; and, if the SoyM was expanded to
the Cerrado MATOPIBA region, almost 900,000 ha covered by native
vegetation on the categories of farms selected would have been
prevented to be converted to soybeans since 2010. The findings
from this paper provide a comprehensive understanding of the land
use and land cover changes and of the Cerrado deforestation
patterns in the CM region for the last decades, and gather
information on conservation policies in place to suggest
improvements. Several datasets were combined, mainly focus on
quantitative analysis, to investigate the geospatial dynamics of
natural and agribusiness areas in the study region, and suggest
the need to reinforce the preservation of Cerrado native
vegetation areas, particularly those that are liable to be legally
deforested.",
doi = "10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105713",
url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105713",
issn = "0264-8377 and 1873-5754",
language = "en",
targetfile = "polizel_analysing.pdf",
urlaccessdate = "11 jun. 2024"
}