Carbon credit projects on coffee farms

1) Servitization of business:

Servitization in the agriculture involves offering farmers comprehensive solutions that go beyond selling equipment, including services like data analytics, crop monitoring, and agronomic advice to enhance productivity and sustainability.

a) The carbon market: it is an Opportunity

BRAZILIAN AGRICULTURE IN A WORLD OF CARBON PRICING: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

A sustainable coffee farm is an agricultural property that produces coffee in an environmentally friendly, socially responsible and economically viable manner. To achieve sustainability, coffee farms can adopt practices that ensure the preservation of water resources, biodiversity and air quality. They can also implement technologies for greater efficiency, use green manure, preserve permanent areas, avoid waste, use renewable energy and employ soil regeneration techniques.

b) A Case Study For Coffee Farming In The Region Of Alta Mogiana, São Paulo

Studies around the world show an increase in global average temperatures, with a consequent increase in extreme events and changes in the distribution of precipitation, causing a decrease in agricultural production and changes in planting areas. This study analyzed the exposure to climate risk that the coffee crop in the region of Alta Mogiana/SP, Brazil has been presenting in the past thirty years (1991-2021). Time series of daily data of maximum and minimum temperature and precipitation were used. By the statistical tests we observed a trend of increase in maximum temperatures daily of approximately 1.4°C and minimum daily of 0.8°C in the municipalities of the region and a trend towards a decrease in precipitation of 0.9 mm daily, indicating greater exposure of the coffee crop in the region to climate risk and increased vulnerability for the coffee producer. Fonte: https://www.scielo.br/

2) Regularization of CAR and PRA

CAR = Cadastro Ambiental Rural – (Rural Environmental Registry)

PRA = Programa de Regularização Ambiental – (Environmental Regularization Program)

The CAR and the PRA are, thus, important instruments to recover the vegetation cover and their effective implementation contributes to the achievement of commitments taken by the Brazilian Government regarding the reduction in the emission of greenhouse gas emissions in the Paris Agreement. In addition, the environmental recovery of degraded or deforested areas ensure the maintenance of environmental services such as climate regulation and maintenance of water bodies.

3) PSA – Payments for Environmental Services

Brazilian payment for environmental services programs: Based on “user pays” and “provider gets” principles, the Payment for Environmental Services (PES) consists of providing economic incentives or compensation for land users who adopt activities that promote ecosystem services.

a) New Agribusiness Law: the Green CPR:

• An economic incentive for environmental preservation
• The Rural Product Note (“CPR”) is a credit instrument by which the issuer undertakes the delivery of certain rural products.
• There is the possibility of rural producers being remunerated for an activity they already perform.
• The Green Rural Product Bond (CPR) emerges as a potential source of financing for the Brazilian agricultural sector. It is an instrument that aims to raise financial resources to maintain agricultural operations and, at the same time, preserve biodiversity.

4) Agricultural research in the farm, through the Sciences: Radiesthesia and Geobiology.

a) Geobiology is however as ancient as humanity. In a few words, the stage is set: the earth, the sky, water, the location, the energy patterns and what they contain. Geobiology focuses on studying a given location, adopting a holistic approach. One shall name Tellurism all kind of natural energies coming from earth and its deepest. From Cosmos will come the energy from the Sun, the stars, and all celestial bodies. Altogether they will form what we call Cosmo-Tellurism. Interaction between energy and matter, vibratory universe, matter and spirit, electromagnetism, quantum physics… Geobiology gains new birth, thanks to new discoveries and studies made in recent years.

b) Radiesthesia is a “practice” that works with human sensitivity and the environment. It is very broad. In the case of agriculture, it will “help” in choosing good products and more effective activities on a farm. In other words, in the agricultural area, Radiesthesia is not indispensable, but as it differentiates itself by working with an “energy language” between man and the environment, it can be very useful in choices and decision-making in AGRICULTURE.

5) Soil environmental Accounting

Environmental Soil Accounting is the annual measurement and recording of physical, chemical and biological parameters that unequivocally indicate, through an index, the consequences of the production system used on soil quality.

Benefits:

a) Farm: Healthy soils do much more than produce food. They perform a multitude of vital functions, like filtering water, supporting biodiversity, and even protecting the planet from climate change.