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26 April 2012Last updated at 03:02 ET

The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies has

approved controversial legislation t hat

eases rules on how much land farmers

must preserve as forest.

Brazil's powerful f armers' lobby argues that

the chan es will romote sustainable f ood

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But environmentalists say the new fo rest code

will be a disaster and lead to f urther

destruction of the Amazon.

The bill now goes to President Dilma Roussef f , who may use her veto

to remove so me clauses.

Wednesday's 247-184 vo te in favour of the new forest code capped a

year of political wrangling.

Brazil's farmers have long pushed fo r changes, arguing that

uncertainty over the current legislation has undermined investment in

the agriculture secto r, which accounts f or more than 5% of GDP.

Severe environmental rest rictions have also f orced many smaller

f armers of f their land, they argue.

Missed t argets?

Rural producers would have "more stability and political support," said

Deputy Paulo Piau, who drew up the Chamber's vers ion of the bill.

"Production and the environment will only benefit from that. With a

confused law there is no benefit," he said.

But opponents said the new law was a s tep

back.

"Over the years, we have slowed

defo restation and intensified production. Now

we are going to modif y all the things that

resulted in the decrease of defo restation by

changing the legislation," said Deputy Sarney

Filho.

Greenpeace urged President Rouss eff to veto

"

Wednesday's vote capped months of bitterpolitical argument

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f orest code is being eroded weeks before

Brazil hosts the Rio summit (on sustainable development)."

Several former environment ministers had warned that Brazil would

miss its emissions targets if the code were weakened, Greenpeace

noted.

Defores tation o f the Amazon has slowed in recent years, as a result

of better law enfo rcement, with authorities using satellite images to

track clearance.

Under the Forest Code, which dates back to 1965, landowners must

conserve a percentage of their terrain fores ted, ranging f rom 20% in

some regions t o 80% in the Amazon.

This provision remains, but environmentalists say ot her changes to the

code will erode key protections.

Under the new bill, farmers will be able to cultivate land closer tohilltops and riverbanks, which are especially vulnerable to erosion if

trees are chopped down.

The bill also pro vides an amnesty from fines f or illegally clearing trees

before July 2008, although larger landholders would have to replant

most of the cleared area or preserve the same amount o f land

elsewhere.

President Roussef f f aces a political dilemma, correspondents say, as

she seeks to combine support f or econo mic development, but also

uphold environmental pledges made during her election campaign in2010.

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24 .In Gold I Trust

5 HOURS AGO

It's far too easy to criticise other countries for "not doing their bit" to

save or maintain the environment when really we should look in the

mirror. Being truly gree n and sa ving the planet means consuming less

in every aspect of our own lives and adopting a make do and mendapproach to life rather than criticising countries who simply want to earn

the money to have the same standard of living.

23.brazilwatcher

5 HOURS AGO

A very la rge part of Braz il's eco nomic g rowth comes from agri-

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Brazil's forest law divides farmers 25 MAY 2011 , LATIN AMER ICA &

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business and it suffers from the same burgeoning population growth as

other developing countries, so some easing of a forest code that was

made in the 1950's was inevitable.

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I'm no eco-warrior but I do understand that the "lungs of the world" are

essential to all our long term wellbeing

Sadly, with corporations and governments, if it has a dollar va lue it will

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