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e) Pilot programmeme for the Protection of Brazil’s
Tropical Forests (Programa Piloto para Proteção
das Florestas Tropicais do Brasil - PPG-7), has the
implantation of a self-sustained development model
into Brazilian tropical forests as its goal, seeking to
match economical development and environmental
protection;
f) National Environment programmeme (Programa
Nacional do Meio Ambiente – PNMA), was
conceived to strengthen the Country’s environmental
area’s legal and regulating structure and institutions;
to protect environmentally important areas for policymaking
purposes; and to broaden the protection of
ecosystems that are under imminent degradation risk;
g) Environmental Education National programmeme
(Programa Nacional de Educação Ambiental –
PRONEA), with the purpose of qualifying informal,
formal, supplementary and professional teaching,
bearing in mind that environmental education is an
essential and permanent component of national
education, and that it should be present, in a linked
manner, in all levels and modalities of the education
process;
h) Solidary Amazon programmeme (Programa
Amazônia Solidária), created with the purpose of
providing social and economic ascension to the
Amazon’s extraction workers, using the government’s
economic aid to natural rubber producers and, in
particular, to the Legal Amazon’s rubber tappers, by
means of specific forest use incentive mechanisms
and social promotion programmemes;
i) Family Agriculture Strengthening programmeme
(Programa de Fortalecimento da Agricultura
Familiar – PRONAF), which aims at supporting
farming and cattle-raising activities performed directly
by the producer and his/her family, the family farmer’s
training and qualification, the building of infrastructure
in family agriculture based counties and, finally, rural
technical assistance and extension;
j) National Desertion Combat programmeme
(Programa Nacional de Combate à Desertificação
– PNCD), Which is being formulated within the
Ministry of the Environment, as a consequence of the
United Nations Desertification Convention results;
k) Forest Fires and Deforesting Combat
programmemes (Programas de Combate aos
Desmatamentos e incêndios florestais), worth
noting:
Forest Fires, Land Burning-over, and Deforestation
Combat and Prevention programmeme (Programa
de Prevenção e Combate a Desmatamentos,
Queimadas e Incêndios Florestais), aims at
preventing, combating and monitoring deforestation
and clearing and burning;
Agriculture Land Burning Monitoring, Prevention
and Control programmeme (Programa de
Monitoramento, Prevenção e Controle das
Queimadas na Agricultura), has the purpose of
monitoring, preventing and controlling clearing and
burning in Brazilian agriculture;
l) Agriculture Soil Conservation programmeme
(Programa Conservação de Solos na Agricultura),
has the purpose of working with small rural producers,
the agriculture sector and local public agency
specialists, for the spreading of conservation-oriented
water and soil use methods, and to support actions
directed at recuperating degraded agricultural areas.
As far as international commitments go, it is worth noting
the consequences of some Conventions and Treaties that
directly affect the use of soil by Brazilian agriculture, as
described below.
Biological Diversity conservation and use have become
important topics since Brazil ratified the Biological
Diversity Convention, in February 1994. Agriculture was
treated as a theme, for the first time, at the Parties’ 3 rd
Conference, but it was after the 5 th Conference, in 2000, that
a bio-diversity in agriculture project programmeme had its
four main components defined, as follows:
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