Umbu (Spondias tuberosa) and wild passion fruit (Passiflora cincinnata) are native fruits that stand out in the Caatinga biome. These species are consumed as part of dietary habits of the population from the Brazilian Semiarid at the same time that some of them are in endangered risk due to ongoing deforestation and environmental imbalance. Agroindustrialization is an alternative to add value to agricultural production and to complement crops management actions. This project aim

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012

This project is part of the cooperation between Embrapa Territorial and the Ministry of the Environment's International Relations aiming to contribute and support, with technical and scientific methods of territorial intelligence, the ministerial strategy of actions to prevent and combat the processes of desertification and land degradation in the area covered by the Caatinga biome. The project aims at structuring a digital platform, accessible to the external public, providing the presentation,

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019

The objective of this project is to structure a Strategic Territorial Intelligence System (SITE, Sistema de Inteligência Territorial Estratégica in Portuguese) to support the sustainable development of agriculture within the Brazilian Caatinga biome. A SITE’s design, construction and operation is based on a broad and strict methodological procedure for organizing georeferenced and analytical information of five dimensions: natural, agrarian, agricultural, infrastructural and socioeconomic framew ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019

Forage crops of the genus Brachiaria are the most important for feeding the herd in dairy farming systems in the tropics. B. ruziziensis is recognized as having the best nutritional value but is less productive than other Brachiaria species besides being susceptible to feeding damage caused by spittlebug, thus limiting its use by dairy farmers. The breeding program of B. ruziziensis, carried out by Embrapa in partnership with other institutions, has selected an improved g

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017

This project was carried out in the region of Pernambuco known as Sertão and in the north of Bahia in order to train rural leaders, extension workers and agricultural technicians in silviculture of multiple-use forest species and agroforestry systems, as well as notions of ecology and the environment. Through courses and training, agents were trained to develop and implement a sustainable management plan for the caatinga area in small and medium rural properties in the Brazilian semiarid regi

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008