Forest carbon in integration systems of crop-livestock-forest

Abstract

The integrated production system of crop-livestock-forest (iLPF) is a more appropriate alternative than monoculture, in terms of sustainable development, because it consorts cattle rearing with forestry, integrating them and alternating them with farming. The iLPF system provides the generation of environmental services, including carbon sequestration, which, when quantified, has economic representativeness and can be marketed internationally. This work aims at projecting the carbon market in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, which is produced in an iLPF system, in comparison to the commercialization of carbon credits regionally, nationally and globally. The research used database from Scielo, scientific articles, journals and books. This paper emphasizes the environmental and instrumental perspective of the carbon credit market of an iLPF system for sustainable development, as it provides ecological, social and economic advantages. The main results show that the exploitation of carbon credits is more significant in developed countries, like the European Union countries and the United States, that it is still incipient in Brazil, and that it is insignificant in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.