Barra do Garças

Programme d’élevage durable de l’État du Pará

Carrefour

Local indicators

Forest Positive Coalition

LandScale

Livestock

Corn

Indicator #0

Hectares of Forest Mapped

Hectares of forest protected

Recover 121,608 hectares of pasture with low productivity by 2023

Barra do Garças is located in the southeast of Mato Grosso state. Its economy is based on agriculture and&nbsp;tourism, with emphasis on the production of soy, rice, corn and livestock. It is located in the Cerrado biome and it is considered a transition region in terms of its agricultural production; historically a livestock region, now the grains are also expanding over the degraded pastureland areas. The total area of the municipality is 907.900 ha, of which 361.083 ha is dedicated to agriculture production and 505.421ha of preserved native vegetation, of which 211.112ha are indigenous land and 11.000ha are located inside a State Park.&nbsp; IDH, together with TNC and local stakeholders, have conducted a process designed to build a sustainable development vision for the municipality of Barra do Garças. This process, which took place in the first half of 2019, had as its main stages the engagement of local stakeholders, the agreement on intentions regarding the priorities for the municipality of Barra do Garças, the set-up of goals, and the consolidation of the common vision for the municipality through the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on June 2019. In December of 2019, a municipal law was issued creating the Barra do Garças PCI Program and, in July of 2020 a municipal decree was issued creating the Barra do Garças PCI Municipal Committee which will have the mandate to coordinate the implementation of the local strategy.&nbsp;

Beef

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 115%; tab-stops: 14.2pt; border: none; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; margin: 12.0pt -7.1pt 12.0pt 0cm;">The Sustainable Livestock Program of Pará was launched during COP 28, in Dubai (2023), marking the state of Pará as a pioneer in the individual traceability of cattle and buffaloes in Brazil.
The program seeks to ensure that livestock production in Pará is sustainable, allowing products from farms to meet the needs of the requirements of factories and markets, including international ones.
The program was established through Decree No. 3,533, of November 27, 2023, which instituted the "Program for the Integrity and Development of the Production Chain of Cattle Raising in Pará" and created the Official Individual Bovine Traceability System of Pará (SRBIPA). Decree No. 4,754, of June 24, 2025, conferred on the Agricultural Defense Agency of the State of Pará (ADEPARÁ) the strategic, financial, and operational management of the Sustainable Livestock Program of Pará.
The program is managed by a Management Council (COGES), composed of representatives of several state secretariats, such as the State Secretariat for the Environment and Sustainability (SEMAS), State Secretariat for Agricultural Development and Fisheries (SEDAP), State Secretariat for Family Agriculture of Pará (SEAF), Agricultural Defense Agency of the State of Pará (ADEPARÁ), Land Institute of Pará (ITERPA), as well as representatives of organized civil society, the private sector and the third sector (Imaflora and TNC).
The Management Council of the Sustainable Livestock Program of Pará is the program's governance body, with aimed at articulating and integrating efforts between the public sector and the private sector, seeking sustainable development for livestock in the state of Pará, with socio-environmental responsibility and transparency at all stages of the production chain.&nbsp;
In addition, the Sustainable Livestock Program of Pará has an Advisory Board - composed of 19 institutions, including IDH – which has the function of presenting technical proposals to the Management Council, for evaluation and development of the Program, in addition to recommendations and environmental and legal manifestations.
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List of institutions participating in the Advisory Board:
- Friends of the Earth
- Proforest Research and Education Association of Brazil
- Association of Producers of the Araguaia Fields (Aprocampo)
- Associação Paraense Pecuária Forte (APPF)
- Associação Rural da Pecuária do Pará (ARPP)
- Bonneterre Tecnologia Agropecuária Ltda.
- CIRAD Brazil
- DATAMARS Brasil Tecnologia Agropecuária Ltda.
- Earth Innovation Institute (EII)
- IDH Brazil Sustainable Trade Initiative
- AMZ Institute
- Amazon Environmental Research Institute (Ipam)
- Institute of Man and the Environment of the Amazon (Imazon)
- International Institute for Sustainability (IIS)
- Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Rural (Senar-PA)
- Union of Rural Producers of Uruará (Sinprur)
- Union of Rural Producers of Tucumã and Ourilândia do Norte
- Rural Union of Altamira (Siralta)
- WWF Brazil - World Wide Fund for Nature
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Strategic axes:
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System and Operation
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Sustainable Livestock Program of the State of Pará

Supported Initiatives

Barra do Garças

Sustainable Livestock Program of the State of Pará