Abstract

The Cerrado has been named as one of the world’s 25 priority areas for biodiversity conservation. The headwaters of three major basins of Brazil are located in the Cerrado: Parana, Araguaia/Tocantins, and Sao Francisco. There are over 12,300 different plant species. Many of them have yet to be evaluated scientifically and economically and may have high potential for medicine and cosmetics. This chapter aims to appraise how environment-friendly land use has been attained in the Cerrado from the standpoint of ecological and environmental conservation. First, an overview of current land use by agriculture and livestock activities in the Cerrado is presented (Section 8.1). Then, the Cerrado’s land use is analyzed in detail using Landsat satellite images (Section 8.2). Bearing this information in mind, public policies aimed at environment-friendly land use of the Cerrado are discussed in Section 8.3, while in Section 8.4, the contribution by farmers to such land use is analyzed. Finally, in Section 8.5, some of the major future challenges for environmental and ecological conservation in the Cerrado are discussed.

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