5.4 – Recovery
Figure 7: Average score of the policies selected for the Recovery axis.
In the Recovery axis, the policies analyzed presented lower scores, with the exception of PNMC and PNMA (Figure 7). The PNMC has a mechanism associated with the rural credit policy that provides financial resources for climate change mitigation actions (ABC Program). On the other hand, the PNMA channels environmental compensation funds from economic enterprises that can be integrated into water and soil recovery programs. In a similar way to the PNMC, but more focused on family farming, PNAPO uses credit lines from the National Program for Strengthening Family Agriculture (PRONAF), such as PRONAF agroecology, PRONAF forest, and PRONAF sustainable to integrate subsidized funds into farmers´ conservation efforts. Recovery actions are also related to the Prevention and Conservation axis, however, more focused on mechanisms and protocols for diagnosing the current situation of natural resources, in order to establishing scenarios for taking conservation and preventive actions. It can also foreseen collaborative database collection of local georeferenced observation.
As an example of this mechanism, the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR), under the Forest Code created a collaborative database about the boundaries of forested areas and areas to be conserved in rural properties voluntarily feed by technicians, producers and other citizens (Annex 1). It is an innovative and simplified instrument, pointed out by experts as capable of allowing government to manage forest resources, by providing not only the intersection between deforestation information and the areas to be restored and conserved, but the reconciliation between economic activities and environmental conservation, in an especially agile and fast way (Pires, 2013).