O Green Grant program is back. The announcement was made last Friday, August 4, by ministers Marina Silva (Environment and Climate Change — MMA), Paulo Teixeira (Agrarian Development and Family Agriculture — MDA) and Wellington Dias (Social Development and Assistance, Family and Fight against Hunger — MDS), in Belém do Pará.
Created in 2011, the program was sanctioned by the then President of the Republic Dilma Rousseff (PT). At the time, Bolsa Verde paid R$300 every three months to families living in:
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Areas of Forest Conservation Units;
Extractive Reserves;
Sustainable Development Reserves;
Environmentally Forestry Settlements;
Agroextractivist Settlements;
Territories occupied by riverside dwellers, extractivists, indigenous peoples indigenous, quilombolas and other traditional communities.
For the return of the program, which should happen in 2023, the ministers announced a correction in the amount. Now, the Federal Government will pay BRL 600 to the beneficiaries – who will be identified via the Single Registry (CadÚnido). The frequency, however, remains quarterly.
One of the objectives of Bolsa Verde is the development of traditional and indigenous peoples, who are largely responsible for preserving forest areas in Brazil.
In addition, it also aims to encourage the environmental Conservation and the recovery of degraded natural areas.
The program was discontinued in 2017, during the government of Michel Temer (MDB). However, before that, it reached more than 73,000 families, whose areas maintained 98% of their vegetation cover.
(Image: Roberta Aline/MDS/Reproduction)
At the same ceremony as the announcement of the Bolsa Verde, the three ministers, via the Technical Cooperation Agreement, also revealed that the Federal Government will allocate R$ 90 million to the Rural Development program.
Specifically, the MDS wants to serve around 20,000 families from traditional communities and indigenous peoples who live in the Amazon region.
The Rural Development program aims to support these families, expanding their productive capacity, combined with social monitoring actions.
In addition, the government makes a direct transfer of financial resources to beneficiaries of Rural Development. As announced by the MDS, this amount is R$ 4.6 thousand.
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