The Instituto de Desenvolvimento Econômico, Social e Ambiental do Pará, or IDESP, is a research institution working on how to make landscape changes and sustainable development in the state of Pará.
IDESP focuses on important issues on the state such as social, economic and environmental development. This institution is focusing on sustainable science in local, regional and global aspects. The Brazilian government controls IDESP.
Today, deforestation and illegal logging and cattle ranching cause a lot of problems. They have negatively affected the sustainable development in Pará. According to Peter Mann de Toledo, a researcher at IDESP, “[The IDESP] is expected to provide crucial information.”
The most important question researchers ask is, “What should we do to solve the problems in Pará and make the land more sustainable?”
In order to solve this issue, IDESP has gone through and measured soil content, taken satellite images of the landscape and utilize scientific information. After gathering all the data, IDESP writes research reports then organizes seminars with the government to begin the process. “The more informed we are, the better decisions we make,” said Toledo.
There are three pressures that are affecting the landscape of the forest: cattle, soybean and sugarcane. All three of these pressures are affecting the land negatively. The use of cattle forms the “arc of deforestation” as a result of burning crops. Pasturing soybean has led to the highest rates of deforestation and sugarcane is used for its bio-fuel.
However, misinformation about the area is an immense problem. IDESP’s main goal is to get the Paránese population to increase production in areas that are not in the forest. If the researchers are not accurate, they will not be able to stop people from cutting down and using the forest for production.
Toledo says that the answer is to integrate. “You can build a robust database and develop sustainable territories,” he said.
A law is in the process of being passed, in order to solve the issue of not knowing whom the land belongs to. The New Program Settle, according to the Foreign Policy website, is a bill waiting on that will grant ownership rights to previously illegal occupiers of vast tracts of land in the Amazon.
This bill will force landowners to become responsible for the property. This now solves the dilemma on not knowing whom the land belongs to. The citizens who have occupied the land illegally have to pay the previous owner of the land and the government in order to remain on the property.
IDESP is re-thinking production and as a result, Pará will become a sustainable developing state.
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