FAMILY FARMING AND THE CARBON MARKET

Abstract

There is a consensus on the impacts and effects of global warming and that it is necessary to remunerate those who take measures to avoid or mitigate such effects, since the payments that are made today benefit large farmers, which is not the case for family farmers. The ABC – Low Carbon Agriculture and ABC+ plans have not incorporated research are based on Ordinance 288/2020 of the Ministry of the Environment and investigate the conditions of native vegetation cover of family properties in the municipalities of Juazeiro/BA and Petrolina/PE. This research proposal was theoretically based on classical and postmodernist scholars who work on the themes: environment; climate change; low carbon emissions; family farming; environmental services; carbon sequestration; carbon market; greenhouse gases; zoning of climate risks, and, in the documents: ABC Plan and ABC+ Plan; Reports from the World Climate Forums; Reports from the IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Agricultural Censuses of 2017 and 2020; Studies by IPEA - Institute of Applied Economic Research; Kyoto Protocol; World Bank Reports; Reports from the UN – United Nations and Ordinances 288 and 414 of the MMA – Ministry of the Environment, which institutes the Payment for Environmental Services and the Forest + Bioeconomy Modality. The choice for the quantitative-qualitative methodology was the most appropriate path because they are complementary in the elaboration of a contractual model that favors family farmers, where it will imply metrics and tests of its applicability and application of questionnaires or interviews with the farmers surveyed in the settlements already demarcated. It was found in the research that family farmers contribute to the mitigation of climate change by adopting adaptation measures that encourage families to stay in the countryside, managing soils in a sustainable way, preserving natural resources, truly and mostly doing low-carbon agriculture.