Research article GIS applied to agriclimatological zoning and agrotoxin residue monitoring in tomatoes: A case study in Espírito Santo state, Brazil Gleissy Mary Amaral Dino Alves dos Santos a , Alexandre Rosa dos Santos b, * , Luciano Jos  e Quint ~ ao Teixeira c ,S  ergio Henriques Saraiva c , Deivid França Freitas d , Olavo dos Santos Pereira Jr. e , Carlos Antonio Alvares Soares Ribeiro f , Alexandre Sim ~ oes Lorenzon f , Fernando Coelho Eugenio g , Ant ^ onio Augusto Neves a , Maria Eliana Lopes Ribeiro de Queiroz a , Rodrigo Scherer h a Federal University of Viçosa/UFV, PostGraduate Programme in Agrochemistry, Av. Peter Henry Rolfs; s/n, 36570-000, Viçosa, MG, Brazil b Federal University of Espírito Santo/UFES, Department of Rural Engineering, Alto Universit ario; s/n, 29500-000, Alegre, ES, Brazil c Federal University of Espírito Santo/UFES, Department of Food Engineering, Alto Universit ario, s/n, 29500-000, Alegre, ES, Brazil d Federal University of Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro/UENF, PostGraduate Programme in Biosciences and Biotechnology, Av. Alberto Lamego, Parque Calif ornia, 2000, 29500-000, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil e Federal University of Juiz de Fora/UFJF, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Av. Presidente Costa e Silva, S~ ao Pedro, 3000, 36037-000, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil f Federal University of Viçosa/UFV, Department of Forest Engineering, Av. Peter Henry Rolfs, s/n 36570-000, Viçosa, MG, Brazil g Federal Universityof Espírito Santo/UFES, PostGraduate Programme in Forest Sciences, Av. Governador Lindemberg; 316, 29550-000, Jer^ onimo Monteiro, ES, Brazil h University of Vila Velha/UVV, Department of Natural Products, Av. Comiss ario Jos e Dantas de Melo; Boa Vista, 21, 29102-920, Vila Velha, ES, Brazil article info Article history: Received 1 September 2015 Received in revised form 21 October 2015 Accepted 24 October 2015 Available online 10 November 2015 Keywords: Geotechnology Multiresidue analysis Health Global warming abstract Searches related to global warming have provided important insights into the response of terrestrial ecosystems, but few have examined the impacts on agricultural crops, particularly those associated with the monitoring of agrotoxin residues. In this context, the agriclimatological zoning is an important tool in the planning and consolidation of crops and should be considered in any initiative that involves such planning. This tool is particularly important in the analysis of agrotoxin residues and may be applied by the Program Analysis of Agrotoxin Residues in Food (PARA) created by the National Health Vigilance Agency of Brazil (ANVISA), which enables greater food security and contributes to the improvement of human health. The aim of this study was to elaborate the current and future agriclimatological zoning for the tomato crop, relating it with the monitoring of samples collected by PARA in Espírito Santo State, Brazil. The results indicate that a temperature increase of 5  C creates a decrease in apt areas from 37.3% to 4.3%, for a total reduction of 33 percentage points (88.5%). It is noted that of the 41 producing municipalities, only 26 have apt areas greater than 50%, highlighting the municipalities with apt areas greater than 90%, represented by Manten opolis (100%), Guaçuí (98.5%), S~ ao Jos e do Calçado (97.8%), Irupi (94.4%), Santa Teresa (92.3%), and Marechal Floriano (91.4%). The veracity of agriclimatological zoning is proved by a Kendall rank correlation coefficient of 0.876, indicating that the distribution of the variables of apt areas and productivity are similar at the significance level of 0.05 with a confidence interval 95%. After validation of the agriclimatological zoning for the tomato crop, it is recommended that the PARA should monitor 36 municipalities rather than the current 18, representing an increase of 100%. The methodology can be adjusted to agricultural crops of other countries. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction Climate change has obvious and direct effects on agricultural production. Accordingly, concerns about the possible impacts of climatic variability on agriculture have considerably changed * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: gleissym@yahoo.com.br (G.M.A.D.A. dos Santos), alexandre. santos@pq.cnpq.br (A.R. dos Santos), luqteixeira@yahoo.com.br (L.J.Q. Teixeira), sergiohsaraiva@gmail.com (S.H. Saraiva), dfnaweb@gmail.com (D.F. Freitas), olavo. pereira@ufjf.edu.br (O.S. Pereira), cribeiro@ufv.br (C.A.A.S. Ribeiro), alelorenzon@ yahoo.com.br (A.S. Lorenzon), coelho.fernando@yahoo.com.br (F.C. Eugenio), aneves@ufv.br (A.A. Neves), meliana@ufv.br (M.E.L.R. de Queiroz), rodrigo. scherer@uvv.br (R. Scherer). Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Environmental Management journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jenvman http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.10.040 0301-4797/© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Journal of Environmental Management 166 (2016) 429e439