Evolution of the Landscape of the Municipality of Carlinda/MT

Bases for the Rural Development of the Familiar Agriculture

Abstract

One of the major challenges in managing land use in family agriculture is to set goals and turn them into effective organizational actions that can address family needs in a sustainable way. In this context, the objective of this work was to evaluate the evolution of land cover and land use and to indicate the need for agroecological practices to reintroduce the tree component and to improve the landscape in areas of family agriculture in the municipality of Carlinda, Mato Grosso. In the QGIS the coverage and land use information for the years 2000, 2010, 2012 and 2014 were processed, the landscape analysis metrics were generated in FRAGSTATS. Deforestation in 2000 was 64% and increased to 71% in 2014. Carlinda has 2225 rural properties and 96.2% have up to 4 fiscal modules; in those areas, in 2014, 8% of native vegetation and almost 70% of grazing with management and agriculture. It is hoped that through the adoption of agroecological practices, it is possible to promote the insertion of the tree component, promoting an effective increase of vegetation mosaics, expanding the areas in which the forest vegetation and the cultivation of species of agricultural interest coexist.