(1) The document outlines strategies for promoting sustainable development in Rio de Janeiro state's agricultural sector using a micro-watershed methodology. (2) It discusses how participatory rural planning and sustainable farming practices at the micro-watershed level can improve incomes, environmental protection, and social equity. (3) Key results of Rio Rural programs in Rio de Janeiro include thousands of farmers adopting sustainable practices, hundreds of watershed committees established, and millions of hectares adopting sustainable land use and thousands of families benefiting.

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$704 billion
Agricultural GDP: 1,2%
92 municipalities
Second Consumer
Market of the Country
8 watersheds
Committees
20,33% of the original
Atlantic Forest
Total Area: 43.864,3 Km2
Fonts: IBGE, 2010 / INEA
exchange R$/US$ = 1 p/ 1,99

4. RIO DE JANEIRO STATE
LAND USE
FAMILY FARMING
NON FAMILY FARMING
Establishments: 44,145
Area: 470,221 ha
Establishments: 14,335
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
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GATHERING EXPERIENCE
FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS
- more than 500.000 farmers
- 5.500 micro-watersheds
- 14,000,000 ha under conservation
- 5,000,000 ha under no-tillage system
- 300,000 ha under green manure
- 50.000 Km of rural roads improved
- Improve water quality by:
reduction of 50% of water turbidity level
reduction of 50% of water treatment costs
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7. COMMUNITY SELF
MANAGEMENT
GOVERNANCE IMPROVEMENT
PARTICIPATORY
DIAGNOSIS & PLANNING
CONSERVATON OF
NATURAL RESOURCES
PAYMENT OF
ENVIRONMENT AL SERVICES
FOOD SECURITY AND
SOLIDARITY ECONOMY
PRODUCTIVITY OF
FAMILY FARMING
SYSTEMIC VISION
TERRITORIAL APPROACH
PHISICAL INTERVENTION UNITY
EASY MONITORING
INTEGRATION OF PUBLIC AND
PRIVATED FUNDS
CLIMATE CHANGE
MITIGATION

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

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

10. IMPROVING MICRO-WATERSHEDS’ METHODOLOGY
Governance
improvement
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Sectoral
Articulation
Intersectoral
Articulation
Institutional
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
N
CENTRAL
SRD STATE COUNCIL
EXECUTIVE
SECRETARY
REGIONAL
REGIONAL
MICROWATERSHED
COMITEE
REGIONAL EXECUTIVE
SECRETARIES
MUNICIPAL
SRD MUNICIPAL
COUNCILS
EXTENSON AGENCY
AND CITY HALL
MICRO-WATERSHED
COMITEE
TECHNICAL AGENTS
LOCAL
WATERSHE
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12. 1st STEP - GEF
(2006-2011)
2nd. STEP - BIRD
(2010-2016)
EMERGENCY
(2011)
BIRD - RESTRUCTURED
(2011)
ADITIONAL FUND
(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
366 micro-watersheds
386.000 ha (8,8%)
1.200.000 ha
(26,7%)
25.000 families
138 + 62 = 200 microwatersheds
4.000 families
37.000 families
Fase 1 (GEF)
UPSCALLING RIO RURAL PROGRAM
Fase 2 (BIRD)
INVESTMENTS, COVERAGE, BENEFICIARIES
FROM PILOT TO POLICY
1.580.000 ha (36%)
78.000 families

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

15. SELECTION OF BENEFICIARIES AND INVESTMENTS PRIORIZATION
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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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COMPOST

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

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

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

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
Field Day – Agroecology
Schools – Springs protection
campaign
Visit of Senegal’s researchers
to participatory reasearch plots
(South-South Cooperation)
Field Day – Participatory
water monitoring

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
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• 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
BEFORE RAINSTORM
• 1.365 subprojects
• 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
AFTER
AFTER RAINSTORM

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
1 billion
Logistic
Plataform
9,8 billion
2,5 billion
Açu Port Complex
43 billion
2 billion
Açu Termeletric
4,7 billion
Southeast Port
0,9 billion
Angra 3 Nuclear Industrial Plant
Plant
4 billion
0,7 billion
CSA
7,3 billion
Font: Decisão Rio - FIRJAN

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

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

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32. ¡MUCHAS GRACIAS!
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33. ¡MUCHAS GRACIAS!