page_title: Brazil and the World Bank
section_title: Land use
hierarchical_section_title: Brazil and the World Bank / World Bank involvement and focal areas / Inclusive and sustainable development / Land use
caption_attribution_description: Burning rainforest in Brazil
context_page_description: The relationship between Brazil and the World Bank has been successful for many years, despite many challenges.
context_section_description: The World Bank has an integrated approach to building resilience of communities, ecosystems and production systems, which recognizes issues of sustainability and social inclusion as closely related. Brazil many different sets of challenges for an inclusive and sustainable development. The World Bank works to support the government in fostering more equitable economic growth, social inclusion, and efficient use of resources, focusing on interventions related to land tenure and territorial development (at national, regional and city level), management of natural resources and biodiversity, climate change mitigation and adaptation, deforestation, land degradation, and water scarcity issues.
  The World Bank also supports management of natural resources in a sustainable way, combining conservation with the promotion of local and regional economic development, as well as to work with the federal and state governments to sustain the low carbon emissions trajectory in agriculture and land use to which Brazil has committed to by supporting farm holdings in the adoption of landscape management and/or sustainable agricultural practices.
  The most pressing issue in our current decade is the emerging problem of climate change, deforestation and preservation of the natural ambient and fauna. In Brazil, the World Bank works effectively with the preservation of the Amazon Rain forest and the sustainable cohabitation of those that use its vegetation and land. The land already used for farming and agricultural practice is also an area invested on for development, sustainability, and expansion prevention into already protected areas.
caption: Amazon deforestation is the most pressing issue for climate change. 9,762 km^2 were cut down between 2018–2019. 80% of deforestation in Brazil is caused by the cattle and meat industry.
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