MARCELO MONTEIRO DA COSTA - Secretaria de Agricultura de Rio de Janeiro – Brasil – Proyecto Río Rural Ponencia realizada durante el seminario internacional “Manejo de Cuencas Hidrográficas y Cambio Climático”, desarrollado en Neiva-Huila, Colombia, desde el 4 al 6 de Diciembre de 2012 http://www.fao.org/alc/u/mg

1. GOVERNO DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO
SECRETARIA DE AGRICULTURA E PECUÁRIA
SUPERINTENDÊNCIA DE DESENVOLVIMENTO SUSTENTÁVEL
Rio de Janeiro - Brasil
ESTRATEGIAS PARA LA SOSTENIBILIDAD DE LOS
SERVICIOS AMBIENTALES EM EL PROGRAMA RIO RURAL
MARCELO MONTEIRO DA COSTA
Coordinador en Gestión de Información y Monitoreo
Dec, 2012

2. MISSION: PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF
THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR OF THE STATE OF RIO DE
JANEIRO
Objective: Promote sustainable development of the agricultural sector of the state
of Rio de Janeiro, using the micro-watersheds methodology to identify and support
local initiatives and arrangements that enable construction of a continuous and
evolutionary process of income generation, environmental respectability and social
equity, thus providing improved life quality of the whole society and especially of
those who live of family farming.
Micro-watershed as a PLANNING, INTERVETION, MONITORING
AND EVALUATION UNIT.

3. RIO DE JANEIRO STATE – BRIEF OVERVIEW
Total Population: 15,989,929
Urban Population: 96,7%
Rural Population Population: 3,3%
GDP: US$704 billion
Agricultural GDP: 1,2%
92 municipalities
Second Consumer
Market of the Country
8 watersheds
Committees
20,33% of the original Total Area: 43.864,3 Km2
Fonts: IBGE, 2010 / INEA
Atlantic Forest
exchange R$/US$ = 1 p/ 1,99

4. RIO DE JANEIRO STATE
LAND USE
FAMILY FARMING NON FAMILY FARMING
Establishments: 44,145 Establishments: 14,335
Area: 470,221 ha Area: 1,575,646 ha
MAIN RJ AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS:
- VEGETABLES & FRUITS
- MILK
- SUGAR & BIOFUEL/ALCOHOL
- COFFEE
Font: IBGE - Agricultural Census 2006

5. MICRO-WATERSHEDS’ APPROACH
A WAY TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT
SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICAL

6. MICROWATERSHED APPROACH – RESULTS AND LESSONS LEARNED
PE
GATHERING EXPERIENCE
FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS
BA
- more than 500.000 farmers
- 5.500 micro-watersheds
MG
- 14,000,000 ha under conservation MS
- 5,000,000 ha under no-tillage system SP
ES
- 300,000 ha under green manure RJ
PR
- 50.000 Km of rural roads improved
- Improve water quality by: SC
reduction of 50% of water turbidity level
RS
reduction of 50% of water treatment costs

7. COMMUNITY SELF
MANAGEMENT
GOVERNANCE IMPROVEMENT
PARTICIPATORY
DIAGNOSIS & PLANNING
PAYMENT OF
CONSERVATON OF ENVIRONMENT AL SERVICES
NATURAL RESOURCES
PRODUCTIVITY OF FOOD SECURITY AND
FAMILY FARMING SOLIDARITY ECONOMY
SYSTEMIC VISION
INTEGRATION OF PUBLIC AND
TERRITORIAL APPROACH PRIVATED FUNDS
PHISICAL INTERVENTION UNITY
CLIMATE CHANGE
MITIGATION
EASY MONITORING

8. STRATEGIES FOR SMALL FARMER’S INCLUSION IN KEY ISSUES
Integration of
Community management Microwatersheds’ multisectoral public
of natural resources simulator policies
FECAM
Inclusion of biodiversity
Community Code of Conduct
Bees pollinating crops Muriqui

9. STRATEGIES FOR SMALL FARMER’S INCLUSION IN KEY ISSUES
Microwatersheds’ methodology as Integration
an environmental project Local planning – Watersheds’ Planning
Financial Sustainability System CDM of family farming

10. IMPROVING MICRO-WATERSHEDS’ METHODOLOGY
10 Governance
improvement
Intersectoral
Sectoral
Articulation Institutional
Articulation Sustainability Plan
Fragmented
aActions
Incentive of productive
chains’ sustainability
SOCIAL
INCLUSION
PROJECTS
Rural Network for Social Inclusion

11. PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL CONTROL
COORDINATION EXECUTIO
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EXECUTIVE
CENTRAL SRD STATE COUNCIL
SECRETARY
REGIONAL
REGIONAL EXECUTIVE
REGIONAL MICROWATERSHED
SECRETARIES
COMITEE
SRD MUNICIPAL EXTENSON AGENCY
MUNICIPAL COUNCILS AND CITY HALL
LOCAL MICRO-WATERSHED
TECHNICAL AGENTS
WATERSHE COMITEE
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12. 1st STEP - GEF 2nd. STEP - BIRD EMERGENCY BIRD - RESTRUCTURED ADITIONAL FUND
(2006-2011) (2010-2016) (2011) (2011) (2012-2018)
US$14 million US$79 million US$18,7 million US$79 million US$140 million
24 municipalities 59 municipalities 10 municipalities 59 municipalities 72 municipalities
48 micro-watersheds 270 micro-watersheds 62 micro-watersheds 138 + 62 = 200 micro- 366 micro-watersheds
watersheds 1.580.000 ha (36%)
386.000 ha (8,8%) 1.200.000 ha 25.000 families
(26,7%) 78.000 families
4.000 families
37.000 families
Fase 1 (GEF)
UPSCALLING RIO RURAL PROGRAM
Fase 2 (BIRD)
INVESTMENTS, COVERAGE, BENEFICIARIES
FROM PILOT TO POLICY

14. MICRO-WATERSHEDS METHODOLOGY - RIO RURAL
Local Planning Farm Development
Participatory Rural
Diagnosis Executive Plans of Micro- Plans
Content: Adequate on farm
Involves all interest groups, watersheds production systems, based on a
organized in the local micro-
Local participatory development action long term development vision
watersheds committees, discussing
plan based on a previous rural diagnosis
social, economical, environmental Negotiated with the farmer
issues and priorities Content: Strategies related to actions’ (incentive + counterpart)
implementation, financing
Consolidate the local development Must contribute to the
arrangements, targets, time table and
issues – priority problems and community development plan of
potential beneficiaries are negotiated
potentials are negotiated amongst each micro-watershed
among members of the micro-
the several groups
watershed committee and validated
with the community
AFTER
BEFORE
Microwatersheds simulator PEM fundraising folder

15. SELECTION OF BENEFICIARIES AND INVESTMENTS PRIORIZATION
15
Local Planning
Aleatory Selection
- Local participation
- Transparency
- Democratic
- No political interference
- Commitment among executors,
beneficiaries and stakeholders
with project implementation

16. FINANCIAL INCENTIVE TO SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES
• Increase income and farm sustainability
• Introduce animals and crops in adequate areas, in order to increase efficiency
(sustainable agriculture and livestock)
• Integrate practices, in order to optimize results and productivity
• Protect forest fragments to biodiversity conservation

17. EXAMPLES OF INTEGRATED SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES
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Selling
products with
added value COMPOST

18. EXAMPLES OF INTEGRATED SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES
+ Animal food for
dry periods
(resilience)
Produces
manure
ROTATIONAL GRAZING
Increase of productivity
Releases areas
for protection
Eg: Springs and SUGAR CANE PRODUCTION
recharge areas
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Incre p
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SPRING PROTECTION
Increase of water Selling products with
supplying added value

19. Farm Development Plan
Previous Situation SUSTAINABLE PLANNING
Pasture Rotational
Grass
Erosion Protected Grazing
Coffee Erosion Recharge Spring
Control
Area
Spring

20. 20
Financial strategy: Grants + beneficiaries counterpart + Co-Financing
Basket of financing options to promote rural development
FIBRIA
Native trees seedlings:
Municipalities Beneficiaries
U$13.300
Materials transport, soil preparation: Counterpart 20%
U$5.300
Federal Program
on Landtenure
Credit: U$3.880
FUNASA
PRONAF (National Family National Sanitation Fundation
Farmer´s Support Sanitation unit:
Program) Credit: U$1.880 66.000
FUNCAFÉ
RJ State Agriculture Credits
Support Program 13.600
Credit: U$6.270

21. PARTICIPATORY MONITORING
Water
Springs protection
- Recovery of native vegetation and local biodiversity
- Increase in water availability
- Use for irrigation of crops
- Approximately 12% increase of productivity (pineapple)
Local economy
Rotational Grazing
- Increase of milk productivity
-Increase of organic matter content (66.6%)
- 1,5 ha released for reforestation (per project)
- Carbon storage (28 T for each R$1.000 invested)

22. COLLECTIVE INCENTIVES - INCUBATION OF RURAL ENTERPRISES
Agroindustry Collective buying cooperatives Sustainable craft
production

23. CAPACITY-DEVELOPMENT AND DISSEMINATION
Training
Executors Stakeholders Farmers Communities
www.microbacias.rj.gov.br
Schools – Springs protection Visit of Senegal’s researchers Field Day – Participatory
Field Day – Agroecology to participatory reasearch plots water monitoring
campaign
(South-South Cooperation)

24. RESULTS - RIO RURAL GEF
• 1,325 farming families adopting sustainable practices
• 6,433 beneficiaries, 481 technicians and 2.050 actors trained
• 47 Micro-watersheds’ Plans designed
• 48 Micro-watersheds’ Management Committees established
• 231 identity groups formed
• 43 business groups formed
•18,000 ha of lands with sustainable agricultural practices
• 1,240 ha of riparian and native forests rehabilitated
• 800 ha of biodiversity conservation-friendly land use mosaics established
• US$10 million on co-investment projects approved
• 23 Participatory Research Units implemented
• Multisectoral integration (Education, Health, Environment, Culture)

25. RESULTS - RIO RURAL BIRD
25 • 407 micro-watersheds ranked
• 37,000 family farmers benefited
• 51 subprojects executed
• 8,519 farmes, 277 technicians and 2,044 actors trained
• 132 Watershed Management Committee established, with 1,131 members
• 339 identity groups formed
• 52 Micro-watershed’s Executive Plans (PEM) designed
• 23 Participatory Research Units implemented
• 114 potential business gropus, with 913 members
• 997 sanitation projects execution
• 21 mechanized patrols
• 3.020 km of roads rehabilitated, benefiting 12.844 farmers

26. Natural Disaster – SERRANA REGION – Emergency actions
• 1.365 subprojects
BEFORE RAINSTORM • 1.321 beneficiaries
• 13.627 beneficiaries trained in key-words
• 889 km of roads rehabilitated, benefiting 10,000 farmers
• 1.677 ha of productive lands recovered, benefiting 8.854 farmers
• 26 machneries and equipment
BEFORE BEFORE
AFTER RAINSTORM
AFTER AFTER

27. ADDITIONAL FINANCING
Structural actions, risk management and significant landscape
changes to mitigate climate changes effects
- Adaptation of rural
population to climate
changes
- Soil Conservation
- Rehabilitation of
roads, bridges and
draining
- Terrace
- Level Planting

28. AF:APPROCHING SMALL FARMERS TO NEW MARKET OPPORTUNITIES
Economical and environmental opportunities in the State of RJ - Macroinvestments – US$122
billion
DPL – Development
Politics Loan Logistic
1 billion Plataform
2,5 billion 9,8 billion
Açu Port Complex
2 billion 43 billion
Açu Termeletric
4,7 billion Angra 3 Nuclear Industrial Plant
Southeast Port CSA
Plant
0,9 billion 0,7 billion 7,3 billion
4 billion
Font: Decisão Rio - FIRJAN

29. IMPROVING TERRITORIAL APPROACH
STATE
REGIONAL/
WATERSHEDS
Group of municipalities and
CLUSTERS micro-watersheds
MUNICIPAL
MICRO-
WATERSHEDS
FARMS

30. IMPROVING TERRITORIAL APPROACH
30 Micro-watersheds Clusters
Structuring
Logistics projects
Improvement Local group Focus on Intensification
of productive enterprises professionalization Risk of the
systems analysis investments
Lower resources
Market
demands Multiple
business
Support to Individual Simultaneous plans
specifical and group support to
agricultural demands multiple Specialized
chains chains technical
assistence
Technological Landscape
innovation management Environmental Territorial Formation of
Natural supplying chains
resources adequacy and custers’
Micro- sanitation planning
management watersheds’
planning

31. www.microbacias.rj.gov.br

32. ¡MUCHAS GRACIAS!
www.microbacias.rj.gov.br

33. ¡MUCHAS GRACIAS!