Exhibition
"O IBGE mais perto de você" on display in National Congress
April 06, 2018 02h57 PM | Last Updated: June 05, 2018 10h37 AM
The "O IBGE mais perto de você" (The IBGE closer to you) exhibition can be visited since last Wednesday, April 4, at the Black Hall of the National Congress in Brasília (DF). Until April 22, 8.5 million km² of the Brazilian territory are under the feet of visitors in an interactive map on land use an cover. Totems are also available to browse through the IBGE digital tools.
Roberto Olinto Ramos, President of the IBGE, spoke during the inauguration of the exhibition. He stated that the map should be considered an icon, a symbolic demonstration of a moment in which the IBGE gets closer to the House of Representatives and Federal Senate. "This huge map is a small example of this approach. May it become perennial and that our product be more and more exhibited here", stated him.
President of the House of Representatives visits IBGE exhibition
Representative Carlos Melles (DEM), President of the Parliamentary Front of Geography, Statistics and Agri-environment - Gema, Senator Ana Amélia (PP) and Representative Luiz Carlos Hauly (PSDB) also participated in the inauguration. Rodrigo Maia (DEM), President of the House of Representatives, and other representatives honored the exhibition.
Melles highlighted that "the IBGE work is nothing more than a sustainability work for the development and implementation of public policies". He emphasized the importance of the Census of Agriculture, since Brazil "quadruplicated its agricultural production in 25 years, in the same area, and doesn´t have a Census of Agriculture for more than ten years".
Senator Ana Amélia greeted the "brave IBGE staff" and also highlighted the importance of the Census of Agriculture, as well as the need of resources to carry out the Population Census, scheduled for 2020. "Gema will work hard on this project, which is not only of the IBGE, but also of national interest. Without it, Brazil will not know itself, will not know which size it has nor which people is living in this huge territory".
The exhibition is on display until April 22 and can be visited on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays from 9am to 6pm, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 9am to 8pm and on Saturdays and Sundays from 9am to 5pm. The orientations on the visitation of the building of the House of Representatives are available in the Visitor´s Guide on its website.
Representative Carlos Melles, Senator Ana Amélia, the President of the IBGE Roberto Olinto Ramos and Representative Luiz Carlos Hauly participate in the inauguration of the exhibition.
4.6% of national territory has its cover changed between 2012 and 2014
The interactive map on the Land Use and Cover shows the transformations in the land surface, mainly those related to the population increase, technological development and agriculture modernization. Compared with that of 2012, the 2014 map, exhibited in the House of Representatives, shows that about 4.6% of the Brazilian territory suffered some type of change in its cover. This rate is slightly higher than that registered between 2010 and 2012, which was 3.5%. This is explained as the expansion of agriculture, pastures with management, silviculture and artificial areas remained in place, as well as the reduction in the areas of forest vegetation and natural pastures.
The most important reductions in the cover took place in the areas of forest vegetation and natural pastures. Forests retreated by 1.8% between 2010 and 2012, and by 0.8% in the 2012-2014 period, pointing out a deceleration in this process. On the other hand, the reduction in the natural pastures accelerated, changing from 7.8% (2010-2012) to 9.4% (2012-2014).
