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<p>The UK has worked closely with Brazil's Ministries of Environment and Agriculture,
Livestock and Supply to deliver a number of climate change mitigation and avoided
deforestation programmes, including in the Cerrado savannah.</p><p>For example, the
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affiars has invested £10 million of international
climate finance in the Reducing Deforestation in the Brazilian Cerrado Programme,
which ran from 2012 to 2018 in partnership with the World Bank. The programme has
successfully enabled 38,017 farmers to enrol on the Rural Environmental Registry in
43 municipalities in order to improve natural resource management and environmental
compliance in the Cerrado. The programme also strengthened capacity to prevent and
combat forest fires by developing a state of the art monitoring and warning system
and supporting twelve municipalities and three Protected Areas to properly manage
and combat forest fires.</p><p>Our current involvement in the Cerrado includes phase
2 of the Rural Sustentável programme, which will start implementation in July. The
programme aims to support small and medium-sized farmers in adopting low-carbon agriculture
in the Cerrado and Caatinga biomes in order to reduce deforestation. It is being delivered
in partnership with Inter-American Development Bank and Brazil's agricultural research
agency, with whom we have regular discussions.</p>
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