The agrarian reform settlements registration experience in the rural environmental registry (CAR) in Brazil: Results and outlook

STURM, CARLOS EDUARDO; DEUSDARÁ, RAIMUNDO; RAMALHO, ÂNGELO; CAMPOS, SAMUEL; ROCHA, JANAINA; BIONDO, LEANDRO; OLIVEIRA, GUSTAVO; GONÇALVES, GABRIELA; CACCIAMALI, THAIA; MIRANDA, LUIZ

The new Forest Code, introduced by the Law 12,651/2012, established the environmental regularization of rural properties through the property registration in the Rural Environmental Registry - CAR and adherence to the environmental Regularization Program by signing a agreement. On the 5th May, 2014 began counting the legal deadline of one year for the Rural landholdings to register on CAR. Registration deadline count resulted in a big challenge for the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform - INCRA. Land agency, manager more than 7000 settlements, where hundreds of thousands families of farmers live, in more than 45 million hectares. How to perform the registration of all settlements under INCRA’s management, in the original legal deadline? This article analyzes the information declared in the Rural Environmental Registry related to vegetation cover, the settlement projects of agrarian reform.

Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018

Document type:The agrarian reform settlements registration experience in the rural environmental registry (CAR) in Brazil: Results and outlook (582 kB - pdf)