More than 40 representatives from public, private and civil society have created a new partnership to manage the semi-arid hinterland in the Brazil states of Paraíba, Pernambuco and Rio Grande do Norte together.
The region will produce more food sustainably, creating living incomes for around 5,000 families. Through this initiative, the unique Caatinga biome restored and protected, and women playing a central role in decision-making and local business.
The Caatinga is an exclusively Brazilian biome, often perceived and portrayed nationally as an arid and underprivileged place. However, this perception all too often overshadows the region’s true richness and generates an impediment to opportunities. However, it is a fact that increasing degradation poses a real threat to the lives of the more than 25 million people who live in the biome. This makes integrated territorial development actions essential.
You can learn out more about the people who make the Caatinga biome, in northeastern Brazil, a pulsating region of popular culture, collaborative production systems and social inclusion in this minidoc.
PPI Compacts Goals
PRODUCTION
Sustainable Cariri Compact (Monteiro-Paraíba)
Supporting the development of the goat and sheep chains, encouraging milk production and poultry farming, taking advantage of existing structures for raising animals in the landscape. In addition, supporting the region’s agricultural industries in the honey, fruit pulp and flour sectors, seeking certification, and boosting the ecological cotton chain.
Sustainable Pajeú Compact (Afogados da Ingazeira-Pernambuco)
Certifying products and incentives for agro-industries, especially honey, fruit pulp, cashew and manioc. There will also be actions aimed at animal husbandry and ecological cotton.
Sustainable Apodi Compact (Apodi-Rio Grande do Norte)
focusing on red rice and the ecological cotton chain. Strengthening fruit-growing, beekeeping and horticulture and structuring the livestock chain.
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PROTECTION
Sustainable Cariri Compact (Monteiro-Paraíba)
Supporting farmers with the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR), combating deforestation in the Caatinga and encouraging forest restoration, land and environmental regularisation, solar energy and water reuse, especially in Permanent Preservation Areas (APPs).
Sustainable Pajeú Compact (Afogados da Ingazeira-Pernambuco)
Restoring the Caatinga and implementing a programme of Payments for Environmental Services (PES), environmental and land regularisation and structuring a carbon credits and emissions-reduction programme.
Sustainable Apodi Compact (Apodi-Rio Grande do Norte)
Encouraging agroecology, creating isolation corridors between large-scale farming areas and communities, increasing society’s participation in water-management policies and recovering degraded forests.
INCLUSION
Sustainable Cariri Compact (Monteiro-Paraíba)
Focusing on strategies to include women, young people and local family farming in national agreements and structuring sustainable rural tourism.
Sustainable Pajeú Compact (Afogados da Ingazeira-Pernambuco)
The landscape seeks support for Technical Assistance and Rural Extension (ATER), gender inclusion, support for family farming through the Farmácia Viva programme and sustainable rural tourism.
Sustainable Apodi Compact (Apodi-Rio Grande do Norte)
Ensuring 50% of women are involved in strengthening family-farming networks, cooperatives and organisations, certifying family-farming products and encouraging the use of new technologies. Facilitating access to credit for women and young people and promoting rural tourism.
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Publications
| Title | Type | Year | Regions | TAF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terms of Reference: Implementing an EUDR Pilot Project focusing on traceability system | Terms of Reference | 2024 | Africa | - |
| Terms of Reference: Implementing an EUDR Pilot Project focusing on census | Terms of Reference | 2024 | Africa | - |
| ToR – Support for scaling IDH’s traceability strategy for the beef value chain in Mato Grosso | Terms of Reference | 2024 | Latin American | Landscapes Program |
| Terms of Reference: Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) Framework Development for Regenerative Agriculture Landscape Program | Terms of Reference | 2024 | - | - |
| Terms of Reference – Support to SEMA-Mato Grosso (Brazil) for CAR analysis and validation | Terms of Reference | 2024 | Latin American | Landscapes Program |
| Terms of Reference: Baseline study to evaluate farming methods, carbon emissions, and household incomes in coffee-producing districts of South India | Terms of Reference | 2024 | Asia | - |
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