Rondônia, Brazil

Brazil
Governor Daniel Pereira
Representative Edjales Benicio de Brito General Coordinator - Program for Socioeconomic Development and Integrated Environment
Representative Renato Berwanger de Silva Executive Director - Secretary of Environmental Development (SEDAM)

Description

The Government of Rondônia is increasingly committed to prevention and control of deforestation, understanding that the current agricultural land-use allocations of the State has already reached the limits established in the Socio-Economic and Ecologic Zoning. Rondonia seeks to develop urgent measures to promote actions that reduce pressure on protected areas, including indigenous lands and conservation units, and begin the process of restoring the altered areas of Legal Reserves and Permanent Protection of rural properties. 

Rondônia was occupied as a result of the integration policy military government, which intensified in the 1970s and 1980s, implementation of the Integrated Colonization Projects (ICP) and the Directed Settlement Projects (PAD), under the responsibility of the National Agrarian Reform – INCRA. This policy had two objectives: first enable the “modernization of agriculture” in the center-south of the country, mainly for the expansion of soybeans in Paraná, and for beef cattle Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo, expelling thousands of sharecroppers, squatters, lessees, rural workers and small producers who migrated to the agricultural frontier in the Amazon, with Rondônia being an option to life. The second objective was to reduce tensions in the field and maintain social movement of rural workers under state control, hiding misery in the Amazon or in the favelas that widened in the outskirts of big cities. In almost forty years of occupation the population of Rondônia increased from 130,000 inhabitants in 1970 to almost 1,500,000 inhabitants currently.

Additional information can be found on the GCF Impact Platform.

Summary

Total Land Area 237,765 km²
% of Land That Is Forest 51.8 %
Deforestation Trend -9.7 % 2016 - 2017

Demographics

Population of State/Province 1.80 M
% of National Population 0.9%

Urban vs. Rural Population

Category %
Urban 73.50
Rural 26.50

Ethnic Groups

Group %
Multi-ethnic 58.00
White 34.00
Black 7.00
Indigenous 1.00

Economy

State/Province GDP BRL 38.56 B
Annual Per Capita Income BRL 20,678

GDP Breakdown

Category %
Services 64.10
Agriculture, Forestry 23.50
18.30
Human Development Index 0.690
Main Exports bovine products, soy, tin, corn, wood

Forest Status

Original Forest Area 213,783 km²
Current Forest Area 123,111 km²
Total Area Deforested 90,672 km²
Total Forest Carbon 1,472 M MtC

Major Vegetation Types

Category km²
Forest 123,029
Pastureland 62,242
Other Land Uses 41,642
Agriculture 36,066
Secondary Vegetation 15,472

Forest Management

Category km²
Protected 46,915
Unprotected 117

Drivers of Deforestation

Activities related to extensive livestock and agriculture. Infrastructure works and colonization processes undertaken by the Brazilian Government since the 1970s.

Deforestation Rates

Notes

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Due to different methodological approaches and base years, Forest Status data fields may differ slightly. Data sources for each field are listed below.

Sources

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IBGE link

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IBGE link

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IBGE link

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Wikipedia

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IBGE

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IBGE link

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SEPLAN link

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IBGE link

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SEPLAN link

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Prodes link

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TerraClass 2014