1. Low-Carbon Emission Agriculture Plan
- ABC Plan-
Edson J. Leite
Forester
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply of Brazil

2. Avoided deforestation
Grain
Had Brazil kept the same technology of the 1960s, it would have taken over 145 million hectares of land,i.e.,195 million ha
Production
+847% X
+ 127%
Avoided deforestation
1960
2011
Population
(Millions) 70
190,7
Grain Production
(millions of tonnes)
17,2
163
+ 847%
Area
(millions ha) 22 50
+ 127%
Productivity
(kilograms per hectare)
+ 321,5%
0,783
3,3
1 = 10 millions of inhabitants
1 = 10 millions of tonnes
1 = 300 kilograms per hectare

3. Avoided deforestation
Had Brazil kept the same production technology of the 1960s, it would have allocated more than 474 million hectares of land to pasture, i.e., 642 million ha
Livestock
+251%
Cattle
Cattle
+41%
Area
Avoided deforestation
1960
2011
Cattle 58
204
(million of cattle - animal)
+ 251%
Pasture area
122,3
172
(millions per hectare)
Productivity
0,47
1,2
(heads per hectare)
1 = 10 millions of inhabitants
1 = 10 millions of tonnes
1 = 300 kilograms per hectare

4. Foreign Trade 1960 BRAZIL 2012 BRAZIL 215 DESTINATIONS Exporter
US$94,5
billion
Exporter
215 DESTINATIONS
1960 BRAZIL
FOOD IMPORTER
2012 BRAZIL
Source: SECEX/MDIC

5. CHALLENGES TO AGRICULTURE
World: Population growth
 Brazil: Increasing agricultural exports;
Consumption standard x Production standard ;
Recovery of Degraded Areas;
Elimination of illegal deforestation;
Rational and efficient use of water resources;

6. CHALLENGES TO AGRICULTURE
Compensation for environmental services;
Carbon Credit;
Demand for a safe and certified food;
Sustainable Agriculture;
Greenhouse Gases (GHGs);
Global warming and climate change;
Land tenure issues, particularly in the Amazon;
Adaptation and Vulnerability Reduction.

7. Sustainable practices in agriculture:
Planted forests
Recovery of degraded areas
No-Tillage System
Biological Nitrogen Fixation
Treatment of animal waste
SAF’s 7

8. Integration Systems’ and Conservation Practices’ Benefits
Increase of carbon retention;
GHG emissions reduction;
Reducing the needs for new deforestation areas;
Soil quality and productive recovery;
Reduction of rainwater runoff and soil erosion;
Greater infiltration of rainwater;
Decrease of soil water evaporation;
Costs Production Decrease and Income increase;

9. Integration Systems’ and Conservation Practices’ Benefits
Low pests incidence - less water and pesticides use;
Production Improvement: variety features;
Market and climate risks minimizing;
Animal welfare - trees presence;
Organic soil components and soil microfauna improvement;
Technologies adapted to small, medium and large farmers.

10. ABC Plan origin
During the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change (COP-15) held in 2009, in the city of Copenhagen, in Denmark, the Brazilian Government committed itself to, until 2020, reduce their emissions of Greenhouse Gases between 36.1% and 38.9%. The fulfillment of this goal involves the following actions:
A reduction of 80% in the rate of deforestation in the Amazon and 40% in the Cerrado.
2) Expand the adoption of sustainable practices in agriculture, through the following technologies: Recovery of degraded pasture ; Crop-Livestock-Forest Integration (ILPF) and Agroforestry Systems (SAFs); No-Tillage System (NTS) ; Biological Nitrogen Fixation (BNF) ; Planted forests ; and Treatment of Animal Waste.
3) Increase energy efficiency by the use of biofuels, hydropower supply and alternative sources of biomass, wind and small hydropower plants, and use in steelmaking coal from planted forests 10

11. Preservation X Production
Vilela, 2005
Elvison (MS), 2012
contribution
Integreted
System
and
Sustainable production pratices
Contribution
Preservation
Sustainable Production

12. Thank You! Edson J. Leite Forester
Reasearcher at Embrapa seconded to the
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply of Brazil
Tel.: 12