News Letter 7
25.09.2014
© R. Seliger, 2014
Evaluation of degraded pastures with
focus on soil Erosion and Assessment
for Rehabilitation / Re
Re--cultivation
measures
INTECRAL Work Package 3:
Land Restoration and Conservation
INTECRAL project is a jointly developed scientific cooperation supported by the German Federal Ministry of
Education and Research (BMBF) and the State Secretariat of Agriculture and Livestock Project Rio Rural (SEAPECPRR). It aims to improve the competitiveness of the rural economic sector in due consideration of a sustainable
watershed management, including environmental risk mitigation and protection of natural resources.
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Evaluation of degraded pastures with focus on soil erosion and
assessments for rehabilitation / re-cultivation measures
The research has been carried out between March 6th
and May 31st under the framework of the INTECRAL work
package 3 activities “assessment of land degradation”
and “restoration of degraded area at pilot location”.
University of Leipzig - IfG, Rio Rural, EMATER, INEA, EMBRAPA Solos.
out focusing on three major activity lines. First: getting in
contact with all relevant scientists, institutions and stakeholders directly or potentially important for the acquisition of information and data on (pasture) degradation in
RJ. Second: extended field excursions for in-situ mapping,
ground proofing and documenting degradation and erosion marks on pastures. Third: the pre-selection of potential pilot areas for a rehabilitation measure and the establishment of contacts to the respective land owners.
Collaborators
Relevant results
The work has been performed by PhD student Roman
Seliger, supervised by Prof. Jürgen Heinrich and Dr. Dietmar Sattler (University of Leipzig) and in collaboration
with Marcelo Costa, Helga Hissa, Marcos André Dias
Jogaib and Adriano Lopes (SEAPEC PRR), José Matias Silva
Rocha, Evanildo Rangel Junior, Mateus Aguiar, Walker de
Azevedo Araujo, (EMATER Itaocara), Ademir Paulo Chrissostomo das Virgens, Leonardo dias Figueiredo do Carmo,
Antônio Gonçalves da Silva, Kissila França Lima, Kênya
Fança Lima, Flavio Gonçalves de Souza (EMATER Porciúncula) and Rosane Maria Bendia Grazoli, Manoel Duarte
Ramos Filho, José Luiz Abreu Diniz, Miguel Angelo Engelhardt (EMATER Varre-Sai), Silvia Adriana Fins Alfonso,
Luíz Dias, Julia Kishida Bochner (INEA), Aluísio Granato de
Andrade and Elaine Fidalgo (EMBRAPA Solos).
The main results of this assessment can be summarized as:
Involved institutions
 Detailed overview of the actual situation regarding
existing knowledge, data availability and data gaps.
 A data entry form “degraded areas” has been developed (and adjusted with Rio Rural and EMBRAPA) for
in-situ terrain and soil data.
 Two potential properties have been selected for a
pilot rehabilitation measure.
Next steps
The next steps for the period 2014—2015 correspond to:
Research area
 Stakeholder workshop in Itaocara and Varre Sai for
defining a regional landscape development goal
(November 2014).
The research took place in Itaocara (Valão do Barro
Preto), Porciúncula and Varre Sai (Riberão da Onça).
 Implementation planning for pilot rehabilitation
measure (until March 2015).
Acknowledgement
Figure 1. Pasture with rill- and gully erosion marks at the property of Julius Caesar
Morais Melo, Varre-Sai
Relevant activities
The main activities developed in this phase of the study
on pasture degradation assessment have been carried
The researchers are very grateful to all team members of PRR,
EMATER Itaocara, Porciúncula and Varre Sai mentioned above
for implicitly supporting our study and contributing very valuable information. Furthermore, we like to thank the farmers
Valerio Lopes Cardoso, Cirene Pereira Fugencio de Freitas,
Maria das Lourdes dos Reis Neves, Pedro Gregorio do Nascimento, Carlos Coutinho, João Carlos de Melo, Ronaldo de
Oliveira Peçanha, Valdeir Pereira de Araujo, Cosme Jose da
Costa, Janderson Melo Teixera, Luciano Figueira Faria, Veraldo Terracão, Gustavo Martins Mafort, Odilon do Couto
Pinto, Pedro Henrique Pinto Soria Rodrigo Bragança, Julius
Caesar Morais Melo, Leona Geovanini, João Vianei Rodolphi,
Jose Dimas de Mello and Maurício de Souza Silva for kindly
permitting research on their property.
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© R. Seliger, 2014
© R. Seliger, 2014
João Vianei Rodolphi family members at their property in Varre-Sai (May, 2014)
Roman Seliger, Antônio Gonçalves da Silva, Flavio Gonçalves de Souza at the
property of Nilson Porto de Castro (Porciúncula) (May, 2014)
© R. Seliger, 2014
© R. Seliger, 2014
Mateus Aguiar at the property of Cosme Jose da Costa (potential pilot area) (May, 2014)
On-farm semi-structured interview – Property of Deildo de Campos Lima (15.04.14)
CONTACT
ITT— CUAS: [email protected]; SEAPEC RIO RURAL Project: [email protected]
Web Page: http://intecral-project.web.fh-koeln.de/
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