Fragmentos de mata e plantação de café: Valoração dos bens e serviços de ecosistema

• Ano de defesa: 2006
• Autor(a) principal: Máximo, Pedro Silveira
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Fragmentos de mata; Valoração de bens e serviços de ecosistema; Plantação de café; Viçosa; Minas Gerais
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/9007

The little that still remains of the biome of the Atlantic forest, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, is represented inthe form of fragments, which is the case of the county of Viçosa, a reghion considered to be of extreme ecological importance and that has been intensely degraded over the last years, due to anthropic activity. The fragmented scenery is due mainly to the actions of coffee planters that destroy its permanent preservation areas (PPAs) and legal reserves (Lrs). Considering only the county of Viçosa 4000 hectares has been planted with coffee, causing in this way, a drastic reduction of the native forest of the region, as well as a significant reduction of what economists call ecosystem goods and services – EGS. Thus, the coffee planters in the PRO-CAFÉ (Organization of local coffe planters) were selected as target public, this choice being credited to the fact that this group characterizes the coffee planters of the mountainous region. In this respect this investigation had as a purpose to determine the main variable that affect the coffee planters environmental perception and monetarily valorization of the forest, since this might be the a simgle strategy for environmental preservation. For this a formulary was developed with 33 questions involving information on sócio economical characteristics, the use of the methodology of contingent valorization (MCV), and the vehicle of payment of the “offer game” that reveled the willingness to accept a compensation (WAC) in exchange of a hectare of coffee for a hectare of forest. The results show that the coffee planters have a good understanding of the importance of the fragments, being important to stress that the interviewees linked the existence of the PPAs and Lrs as the direct responsible for the provisions of the EGSs. However, it was found that even though aware of this importance a conservationist attitude was not perceived, associated to this the absence of a clear environmental education, as well as imúnity. The DAC estimaste shows that in the case that the government is willing to increase the provision of forest to 70 hectares, they should pay out 254.200 reais (around 116.000 dollars), dealing only with the coffee planters lilnked to the PRO-CAFÉ organization and 1.147.000 reais per year if the government should be willing to work with the entire coffee planters population in the county of Viçosa, which represents 314 hectares of forest.