Linking Tenure and Land Use Regularization a Scalable Approach to Improve Tenure Security and Environmental Compliance in the Amazon
Duchrow, Anselm
To address the problems of land governance and environmental law enforcement in the Amazon, Brazil has launched two ambitious and innovative policies: Terra Legal and the New Forest Code (FC). Terra Legal aims at re-organizing land tenure in the federal lands in the Amazon (113 million hectares in total) including the formal recognition of the customarily owned lands of 160.000 small farmers. On the environmental side, Brazil revised its Forest Code (FC), a piece of legislation that regulates land use and management. Compliance with the new FC is monitored through a registry called the Cadastro Ambiental Rural (CAR) containing geo-spatial land use data of every single rural property. These policies have not yet been able to yield the target results s because of difficulties in implementation, such as lack of reliable information on properties, conflicts among land users and lack of institutional capacities. The paper's focus is on an approach called Mutirro Integrado ((integrated campaignn) developed and tested in the context of a German-Brazilian cooperation project that proved to be appropriate in dealing with these implementation problems and allowing the policies to be more effective.
Event: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2015
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