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| The project's team aims to prospect demands based on the diagnosis and characterization of the main agrarian systems in East São Paulo - especially those linked to Family Farming - towards the joint and participatory generation of knowledge, processes, innovations, methodologies and technologies, aiming at the redesign and the sustainable management of agroecosystems based on Agroecology rules. The East São Paulo region is formed by 90 cities within the Cerrados and Atlantic Rainforest biomes, w ... Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| The project's team aims to prospect demands based on the diagnosis and characterization of the main agrarian systems in East São Paulo - especially those linked to Family Farming - towards the joint and participatory generation of knowledge, processes, innovations, methodologies and technologies, aiming at the redesign and the sustainable management of agroecosystems based on Agroecology rules. The East São Paulo region is formed by 90 cities within the Cerrados and Atlantic Rainforest biomes, w ... Status: Completed Start date: Tue May 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2018 |
| Yerba mate is an extremely important business in southern Brazil in environmental as well associoeconomic terms, providing the main economic alternative for many municipalities andserving as a source of income and jobs in rural settings. However, systems to produce yerbamate in Brazil involve little technology compared to other crops. Performance of commercialyerba mate plantations is visibly lower than experimental ones: national productivity inplantations was 8 t/ha in 2016, while in research Status: Completed Start date: Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| Soil quality may be measured through the use of indicators, which are attributes that measure or reflect the environmental state or condition of sustainability of the referred ecosystem. The knowledge regarding the spatial distribution of soil quality and its levels becomes essential in this case, once it favors the study of their relation with the type of soil management, with the environmental impact and the productive capability of agricultural systems. For such, it is important to have a met Status: Completed Start date: Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009 |
| In many grain producing areas in Brazil, including north-central Mato Grosso, there are two harvests per year, with soybeans normally grown in the first harvest. This optimization of land use requires that soybeans be planted as soon as the rainy season begins (usually at the end of September) and that the harvest be carried out between January and March (depending on the variety planted), so that it is possible to plant the second crop of the year. The general recommendation is that soybeans ar Status: Completed Start date: Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| In order to support strategies for surveillance, monitoring and control of quarantine pests, this project foresees the identification of areas that are favorable to the entry and spread of eleven (11) exotic quarantine pests, considering the potential risk routes of introduction and/or dispersion in the Brazilian territory. For strategic territorial mappings, the project will use georeferenced and bioecological information on target pests, as well as the location and availability of federal and Status: In progress Start date: Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2020 |
| Salmonella spp. is a bacterial genus subject to constant health surveillance in poultry products' production and commercialization. Its presence may imply that meat and meat products cannot be commercialized, since it affects both slaughter animals and consumers' health. Traditional methods of isolation and identification of Salmonella spp. require at least five days for conclusive results. As an additional factor, changes in the bacterial cell surface's antigen expression can lead to false-nega Status: In progress Start date: Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2020 |
| Intensive production systems benefit the proliferation of phytopathogens and polyphagous insect pests by extending the period of host presence in the field.The chemical control of pests and diseases is the main tool used. Therefore, there is a relevant concern about the negative impacts of excessive dependence on only one control strategy. Questions such as: what are the effects of the excessive use of multisite fungicides on the soil microbiota; and which levels of metals (present in multisite Status: Completed Start date: Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2020 |
| Herbariums are scientific collections that keep samples of dried plants (exsicatas) from different ecosystems. The information contained in these places are basic sources for taxonomic, floristic, biogeographical, phenological and ecological studies, as well as providing data for the work on biodiversity, medicinal, toxic, fodder, food, among many others. In a simplified way, herbariums can be compared to archives, in which it is possible to collect diverse information about plants, such as habi Status: Completed Start date: Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016 |
| Rio Grande do Sul (RS) has the second highest state production of milk in the Brazilian Federation. Such an activity is widespread throughout the state, involving a significant share of farmers, with great economic and social relevance for generating wealth and income and contributing to the maintenance of a significant share of the state's population in the countryside. RS is located in a region with temperate clime, which has peculiar characteristics of climate, soil, vegetation cover, cattle Status: Completed Start date: Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014 |
| This is a broad research project on Barbados nuts, a crop with potential to become raw material for the production of biodiesel and aviation biokerosene. In spite of its high oil production, the plant has not been totally domesticated yet, that is, there are not different recommended cultivars or production systems for each region of the country yet. In this project, which is partially funded by Finep and CNPq, there are 22 participating research institutions in all Brazilian regions, 16 of whic Status: Completed Start date: Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 |
| Along with current demand for palm oil ("dendê" oil) by the industries of food, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and bio-fuel, it is important to encourage the advance of researches regarding handling techniques that allow longevity, increase in cultivated areas and productivity of the Palm Oil Tree ( Elaeis guineensis Jacq.). Status: Completed Start date: Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009 |
| Responses of humid tropical forests to logging: new perspectives for forest management in the Amazon
The GUIAMAFLOR project includes French (Guyana and Montpellier) and Brazilian (Manaus and Macapá) research partners. The fieldwork is located in four sustainable systems in three Amazonian regions (French Guyana, Amapá and Amazonas) aiming to understand how environmental factors influence the forest dynamic after logging in multiple intensity levels. With the project’s results it will be possible to make a synthesis of the knowledge about forests’ functioning after logging to improve forest m ...Status: Completed Start date: Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015 |
| The sanitary meat inspection system update has been the subject of many debates in recent years, inside and outside the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Supply (MAPA). The object of these debates is Decree 30.691/1952, which established almost 70 years ago the Products of Animal Origin Industrial Inspection Regulation (RIISPOA). The decree defined industrial inspection rules and procedures for products of animal origin inspection. This bill, which was an advance for the population's healt Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| Studies on risk factors in dairy herds and their economic impact are available in countries with developed dairy production. This information is used to direct and prioritize procedures that improve herd health and avoid problems such as high total bacterial count and presence of antimicrobial residues in milk. In countries with developed dairy farming most herds are comprised of high-producing animals of specialized breeds and raised in total or partial confinement systems. In Brazil, there is Status: Completed Start date: Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007 |
| Currently there is much discussion about the environmental impact of livestock and agricultural activities. The Brazilian livestock sector in particular has been criticized for causing emission of significant amounts of greenhouse gases. Among the various greenhouse gases, livestock production practices contribute significantly to the emission of enteric methane, which can become a non-tariff barrier to exports of animal products. In this regard, research has pointed to the need to develop metho Status: Completed Start date: Sun May 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011 |
| The intensification and adoption of integrated systems has allowed advances for sustainable livestock production. It is important to obtain production with minimal environmental impact. Brazilian livestock, in particular, have been following this trend. The cattle herd contributes significantly to the emission of greenhouse gases, mainly with the emission of enteric methane, which can become a non-tariff barrier for the export of animal products. In this sense, the RumenGases project was develop Status: Completed Start date: Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011 |
| We can define Rural Cultural Heritage as a set of material and immaterial records arising from the practices, customs and production initiatives that have been historically and geographically established in rural areas. The "Rural Cultural Heritage in São Paulo: A Valuable Place for Research, Education and Tourism" project aimed at providing a set of management, conservation and dissemination tools and methodologies for those responsible for rural cultural heritage, including both owners and the ... Status: Completed Start date: Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 |
| The availability of water for domestic, industrial, and agricultural use is of fundamental importance to the social and economic development of the arid and semi-arid regions. In the Brazilian semi-arid region, agricultural exploration is becoming more and more dependent on irrigation. Unfortunately, with the increase of irrigated areas, associated with the inadequate management of soil and water, the progressive increase of soil salinisation levels has been observed. In addition, the population Status: Completed Start date: Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011 |
| The use of nanotechnology has been putting nanoparticles and nanostructures in contact with live organisms in ways not yet fully understood. In agriculture, this interaction can occur on a large scale, such as in the applications of controlled release nanostructure-encapsulated pesticides whose toxicity inherent to the drug release system still requires continual verification. Cases like this have motivated the proposal of this project, whose objective was to evaluate the potential impact on liv Status: Completed Start date: Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011 |
| The silvopastoral systems are a viable option to avoid degradation of pastures due to their potential to control erosion and the ability of some tree species to add nitrogen and other nutrients to the pasture, improving soil fertility. However, an important aspect in these systems refers to the competition for light between the tree/shrub and herbaceous components. Tiller production and the consequent density of inflorescences, directly related to seed production and, therefore, to natural resee Status: Completed Start date: Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007 |
| The dairy activity in Brazil has undergone extensive changes. If, on the one hand, the industry tends more and more to value items associated with the quality of milk, such as fat, protein, total milk solids, etc., the prices paid or the incentives applied are arbitrary or defined based upon the financial return arising from one unit of the product. On the other hand, the dairy farmer does not know if the received incentive value, when it exists, is interesting from the point of view of returnin Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008 |
| The culture of yuca is traditionally rustic and adapted to soil and climate marginal conditions. It is also one of the most important sources of carbohydrates for 600 million people in tropical countries worldwide. Although the entire plant is consumed, the root is the most important part of the plant (Fukuda et al., 2008), and in Pará, the area destined to the cultivation of yucca is rather expressive, reaching 326,000 hectares in the year 2007, with a production of 5,211,503 root tons, a fact ... Status: Completed Start date: Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 |
| Biological Nitrogen Fixation (BNF) is one of the most important natural processes in the planet. It is either conducted by bacteria in the soil or added by inoculants, which associate with plant roots to capture and transform nitrogen from the air. Plants cannot assimilate atmospheric nitrogen by themselves. Therefore, the presence of nitrogen fixing bacteria in the soil composition is important. A legume that has been understudied with regard to its interaction with nitrogen fixing bacteria is Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2013 |
| Concern about the environmental impacts of agricultural activities has taken on a large dimension, especially in the last decade. These impacts are expressed, for example, in reduction of biological diversity, erosion and contamination of soils, silting and contamination of water springs, increase of agrochemical residues in food, among others. However, the incorporation of the concept of sustainability has led agricultural research in the growing search for alternative and sustainable models of Status: Completed Start date: Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011 |
| Agricultural systems basically depend on ecological processes and services provided by ecosystems. These ecological processes and services, called ecosystem services or environmental services, relate to the conditions and processes through which ecosystems sustain human life by supplying provisions (food, timber, fiber and fuel production), regulation (of water, of climate, protection against droughts, flooding, storms, spread of diseases and soil degradation, waste purification), support (hydro Status: Completed Start date: Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012 |
| The presence of trees causes the interception of part of solar radiation in agricultural systems, mainly affecting shaded plants and variables such as energy balance, winds and water use by plants (Brenner, 1996). In addition to the restriction of solar radiation, there is also competition for water and nutrients near the row of trees (Magalhães et al., 2018). Thus, controlling competition for light among forest species and reducing tree drain strength for agricultural and forage crops can repre ... Status: Completed Start date: Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| The Showcase of Dairy Technologies was assembled in the headquarters of Embrapa Dairy Cattle, located in the following address: Rua Eugênio do Nascimento, 610, bairro Dom Bosco, Juiz de For a MG. With an area of 81 m2, it uses modern, interactive, and didactic resources such as games, illustrated panels and videos. Its purpose is to promote the teaching of science, technology and innovation by means of the dairy agro-industrial chain in a clear and objective way. The Showcase is the representati ... Status: Completed Start date: Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011 |
| In intensive milk production systems, planning roughage supplementation is critical to the success of the activity. In Brazil the main forage conservation strategy is ensilage, in which maize is the main crop used, due to its high ensilability and silage nutritive value. However, the oscillation of input prices (fertilizers, pesticides, seeds, etc.) has increased the production costs of such crop, a fact that has been pointed out by farmers as a barrier for the economic viability of the producti Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| In intensive milk production systems, planning roughage supplementation is critical to the success of the activity. In Brazil the main forage conservation strategy is ensilage, in which maize is the main crop used, due to its high ensilability and silage nutritive value. However, the oscillation of input prices (fertilizers, pesticides, seeds, etc.) has increased the production costs of such crop, a fact that has been pointed out by farmers as a barrier for the economic viability of the producti Status: Completed Start date: Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017 |
| The experiment's goal is to study the interaction between nutrient availability and plant density over the production and allocation of biomass, nutrition and wood quality of homogenous populations of balsa wood ( Ochroma pyramidale ) Status: Completed Start date: Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011 |
| Dairy farming in the country is practiced in all biomes, consisting of an important production chain in Brazil. In the state of Mato Grosso, the activity is among the most important for small and medium-sized producers, practiced in all municipalities in the state. Milk production in Mato Grosso presents challenges, especially in the north of the state, characterized mainly by high temperatures and humidity. In this sense, silvopastoral systems (SSPs) for milk production emerge as a strategy to Status: Completed Start date: Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2020 |
| Legal norms and market behavior demand a new posture when facing the environment of various economical factors. In the forest sector, this posture has been defined through the restructuring of the use and occupation of cultivated areas with commercial forests, promoting the environmental compliance of productive activities. This reorganization of rural areas, and areas of permanent preservation and legal reserves which were improperly occupied by forest activities, and thus opposing current legi Status: Completed Start date: Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009 |
| This project's goal is to evaluate and quantify the impacts caused by global climate changes in Brazilian's most important economic cultures . For such a purpose, the input database of all the models of all the proposed projects will consist of projections or regional scenarios released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and serve as downscalings of the global climatic scenarios. These regional scenarios will define future agricultural scenarios based in mathematical models Status: Completed Start date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009 |
| In order to achieve sustainable development from STI (Science, Technology and Innovation), Pará's Innovation System (SIPI) was created, being the state's pillar of CTI. A science and technology park (PCT) in Belém (PCT Guamá) will be set up in one of the structuring actions. This project aims to contribute to SIPI's consolidation, by setting up laboratories in the strategic areas to in order to promote the state's development, with the partnership of the state's two important research institutio ... Status: Completed Start date: Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009 |
| Agricultural Sanitary problems don't obey frontier lines, especially when there is land continuity as is the case of the borderland strip between Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru. Embrapa Satellite Monitoring and the Department of Agricultural Defense of the Ministry of Agriculture have developed a system to help agricultural defense along the borderland strip, with the main goal to contribute to the eradication of the foot and mouth disease. Precise and up-to-date knowledge on spatial distrib Status: Completed Start date: Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009 |
| Silvopastoral systems may be an option to prevent grassland degradation because of the potential to control erosion and the ability of some tree species to add nitrogen and other nutrients to pasture, improving soil fertility. In view of this potential, in-depth evaluations of the soil and plant components of these systems are critical. The objective of this project was to verify the effect of trees on soil quality (fertility, biomass and microbial activity) and to evaluate the dry matter produc Status: Completed Start date: Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007 |
| The agribusiness production chains represent 26.4% of Brazil’s GDP, 36% of exports and 39% of the jobs generated in the internal market. The generation of geospatial information about the Brazilian agriculture supports decisions and public policies at different levels and scales. The System for Observation and Monitoring of Agriculture in Brazil (SOMABRASIL) aims to organize and integrate census data and information generated from satellite images into a single database for the whole country, fa Status: Completed Start date: Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2013 |
| Soy is one of the main commodities in national agricultural production, with Brazil being the world's largest producer, with a production of 135.4 million tons, productivity 3,517 kg/ha. With a planted area of 38.5 million hectares, it is still the world's largest exporter of the grain. Among the main producing states, Mato Grosso stands out as the largest Brazilian producer of soy, with production of 35.9 million tons, planted area of 10,374,861 hectares and productivity of 3492 kg/ha. The Status: Completed Start date: Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2022 |
| This project proposes to carry out temporal updates on the Strategic Territorial Intelligence System of the Brazilian Agricultural Macro-logistics (SITE-MLog), and has gone through three stages of execution since 2016 and was launched in 2018. The platform allows generating more than 500 thousand interactive maps for 10 agricultural products corresponding to more than 75% of the national agricultural production and favors the contextualization and analysis of territorial situations and generatio Status: In progress Start date: Thu Aug 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 |
| 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 project aims to to develop Strategic Territorial Intelligence mechanisms to generate and make data and analyses available, in order to support decision-making in public and private bodies related to the goat and sheep farming. Such systematization will structure an intelligence service that will be the basis for the Center of Goat and Sheep Intelligence and Markets, which will make information and services related to the production activity publicly available. Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| The objective of this project is to structure a Strategic Territorial Management System for the Brazilian Cerrado (SGTE-Cerrados), with emphasis on the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR), seeking to systematize information, characterize, monitor indicators and perform periodic analyzes that allow an adequate understanding of the agricultural use and occupation of the biome in its territorial, economic, social and environmental dimensions. The importance of this project is in the generation of st Status: Completed Start date: Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2018 |
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The banana tree is cultivated from north to south of the country and the main cultivars used are susceptible to pests, with low productivity and some are very tall. The project aims to continue the banana breeding program underway since 1983 and aims to create and agronomically evaluate banana genotypes; assess resistance / tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses; develop basic studies aimed at generating knowledge for pest control in support of the breeding program; use tissue culture techn ...Status: Completed Start date: Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008 |
| Low productivity of pastures in Brazil is the main cause of poor profitability and competitiveness of animal production systems in relation to other agricultural systems. The objective of the project was to generate technologies in intensive system of livestock grazing using Tanzania grass ( Panicum maximum), Marandu palisadegrass ( Brachiaria brizantha) and Star grass ( Cynodon nlemfuensis) to improve forage production and quality and milk production. To this end, evaluatio ... Status: Completed Start date: Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011 |
| Among the essential nutrients, nitrogen (N) is the one with the greatest potential for enhancing forage production. The efficiency of nitrogen uptake is related to the energy supply provided by the photosynthesis. However, recent practices of intensive pasture management have recommended the use of lower post-grazing residues, thus reducing the leaf area of the canopy. The objective of this project was to evaluate the effect of the timing of nitrogen fertilization in association with different d Status: Completed Start date: Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014 |
| Considered the largest reserve of biological diversity in the world, the Amazon is also the largest Brazilian biome in extension, occupying almost half of the national territory (49.3%). Based on its unique characteristics and vulnerability, the need to strengthen productive activities that combine income improvement, social inclusion and proper use of its natural resources becomes increasingly clear. Among its main economic activities, the growth of agriculture in the Legal Amazon has been quit Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| Spittlebug, Mahanarva spectabilis (Hemiptera: Cercopidae) is capable to cause drastic losses in production and quality of pastures established with grasses. Currently, the use a grass resistant cultivar, to be obtained by means of constitutive antibiosis, is the best spittlebug controlling method. However, the time required for releasing a cultivar after detecting a spittlebug-resistant strain is relatively long. Allied to this, one should take into consideration that the adaptations of Status: Completed Start date: Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015 |
| The production of strawberries in Brazil is of great importance and has been experiencing increasing expansion every year. This culture still is of great social importance once great part of productive areas are based in family farming, thus being directly linked to family income, job offer and establishment of manpower in rural economical activities. Despite its importance, many are the technological gaps and few are the research institutions currently involved in strawberry studies. Great part Status: Completed Start date: Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 |
| The Traditional Agricultural Systems (SATs) are part of Brazil's intangible cultural heritage andconstitute the essence of the lifestyles of numerous rural communities, including familyfarmers, agroextractivists, artisanal fishermen, indigenous peoples, and traditionalcommunities. SATs interconnect knowledge, myths, forms of social organization, practices,products, techniques, and artifacts, along with other manifestations associated with the use ofsociobiodiversity products, forming cultura Status: In progress Start date: Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2022 |
| Livestock is one of the main highlights of Brazilian agribusiness. In recent years, issues related to food safety, energy, and environmental security have been the subject of discussions. In this scenario, the increase in demand for food and at the same time the pressure of society and importing countries for sustainable production systems, which requires a paradigm shift in agricultural production systems. In this context of rapid change, increasing the livestock efficiency is essential to ensu Status: Completed Start date: Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014 |
| Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a management tool to assess the environmental performance of products throughout their life cycle. It is a methodology with strong, internationally recognized scientific foundations, established by the series of ISO 14040 standards. LCA is used in some countries to elaborate public policy. It is also widely used by the private sector for the development of products and processes, the development of business-oriented strategies, and to communicate environmental aspe Status: Completed Start date: Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014 |
| As a World Health Organization and Codex Alimentarius member, Brazil needs to respond to global calls to improve human health and food production. At the heart of this debate is the interdisciplinary challenge of controlling resistance to antimicrobials. In addition to measures aimed at those focusing on human health, advances are also needed in the agricultural sector, both in knowledge and in immediate measures for rational use of antimicrobials and control of resistance spread. In this sense, Status: In progress Start date: Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2020 |
| Protein-protein interactions virtually regulate all processes inside cells, e.g. signal transduction, metabolic regulation, gene regulation, and immunological responses which occur in a specific way. Several experimental methods are capable of detecting interactions between proteins, which can range from cellular "resolution" to experiments which expose atom level interactions. However, the performance of these combined experiments which generate complete information regarding the network of pro ... Status: Completed Start date: Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009 |
| The safe use of nanomaterials is a set of actions to prevent, minimize or eliminate risks to human, animal or environmental health, during the course of research, production, technological development, providing services and trade of nanomaterials. Among global efforts to standardize safety tests, the European consortium NanoReg stands out in addressing international issues regarding regulation in nanotechnology. Recently, the Interministerial Committee for Nanotechnology (CIN) approved the acce Status: Completed Start date: Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015 |
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The Brazil-nut (Bertholletia excelsa) is one of the most noble species of the forest due to the high value of its nuts, which is a rich source of vitamin E, complex B, besides minerals like phosphorus, potash, magnesium, calcium and selenium. The B. excels is much appreciated in natural and the “milk” extracted from its nut can be drank pure, mostly for infants and as an ingredient in recipes. This “milk” is an excellent raw material for the formulation of new products, but research studies a ...Status: Completed Start date: Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017 |
| Since 2013, yellowing of the needles (chlorosis) and decline of adult trees have been seen inplantations of Pinus taeda (loblolly pine) plantations in different parts of the Santa CatarinaPlateau. In addition to chlorosis, mortality has also been observed in the plantations to a lesserdegree, due to attack by the fungus Armillaria sp. Few data are available on the incidence andseverity of this disease, as well as its distribution in adult pine plantations. For this reason,further research is nee Status: Completed Start date: Wed May 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| Dairy Cattle Farming represents one of the most important alternatives to migrating slash-and-burn agriculture in the Amazon, and lately, has been suffering a process of intensification. This activity has presented in the last years significant growth rates in the northern region, being thus one of the greatest in the country although it remains as the region with the smallest aggregate production. However, this evolution is predominantly a result of the increase in the dairy cattle herd and in Status: Completed Start date: Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 |
| Agro-industrial processes generate fibrous residues such as lignocellulosic fibers, which could potentially be used in new materials. Interest in natural fiber-reinforced polymer composites has been growing rapidly due to the materials significant processing advantages like low cost and low density, which have been used in many applications in the automotive and construction industries. A raw material that is abundant and has the potential for use in composites is sugarcane bagasse fiber. In Bra Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| Sustainable development of natural forests is an economic activity that ensures forest cover ismaintained, since it involves optimal forest management to create an economic return basedon preservation and development of the forest. This activity is recommended by internationalenvironmental specialists as a way to help maintain biodiversity, particularly in the Amazonregion. Management of natural forests is an extremely important source of revenue for thestate of Mato Grosso, and generates income Status: Completed Start date: Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017 |
| This project is a result of the demands made by the farmers from the Rio Capim Pole (the counties of Irituia, Concórdia do Pará, Mãe-do-Rio and São Domingos do Capim), which are involved in fish farming. This pole is characterized by the existence of group actions done by farmers and local institutions, which have the goal to strengthen the balance between family farming and environmental preservation (agroecology), the fish farming being part of this context as an expanding productive system. T ... Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008 |
| Cotton cropping in Peru is a thousand-year-old activity that goes back to ancient civilizations that developed in that region. Cotton has historically been an important source of resources for the Peruvian population and supplied raw material for the textile industry. They cultivate the long or extra-long fiber species Gossipium hirsutum and G. barbadense. National cotton production has been declining in recent years, with major social impact, as this crop is predominantly cultivated by family f Status: Completed Start date: Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015 |
| The project aims to facilitate chicken, eggs, pork, and turkey exporting companies access to the drawback policy benefits, conducted by the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade, and Services (MDIC). The export support policy established in the drawback system is an essential incentive for exporting companies, improving Brazilian product competitiveness. Embrapa Swine and Poultry, aiming to meet public policy priorities of the drawback regime and support poultry and pig exporting companies, since Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| The sustainability of rural properties consists of the dynamic balance of social, economic, environmental and management administration dimensions. For the evaluation of sustainability, considering this balance and involving such dimensions. For the assessment of sustainability, considering this balance and involving such dimensions, it is necessary the identification of sets of representative indicators. Besides representing the corresponding dimensions, the sustainability indicators are relate Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| Fine-texture soils in Brazil are generally deemed to have low agricultural potential. Due to low levels of clay and organic matter, they usually present low nutrient and water retention capacity, and, when poorly managed, may produce negative impacts associated with high risks of groundwater contamination by nutrients and other chemical pollutants, or with potential erosion when directly exposed to rain. Status: Completed Start date: Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012 |
| This project aims to develop, evaluate and validate the environmental and social sustainability of technical-economic milk production systems based on Integrated Crop-Livestock-Forest Systems (ICLFS), with the use of the main plant species silage corn, cowpea, Piata grass, eucalyptus, chestnut; and Dutch x Gir crossbreeds. Status: Completed Start date: Sun May 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011 |
| The Extractive Reserve (Resex) "Forever Green" was created in 2004, in an area of 1,288,717 hectares in Porto de Moz- PA. The families that live in this reserve survive especially of artisan fishing, of subsistence agriculture and of raising domesticated buffalos. The region's income increase face the lack of technical knowledge and difficulty of direct access to the consumer market as main obstacles, point out locals. This project aims to organize and develop practices inside Resex with the int ... Status: Completed Start date: Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007 |
| The project aimed to quantify carbon stocks and assess the impact of human activity on changes in carbon stocks in the Amazon Forest. In that region, in response to the potential climatic effects of deforestation, policy makers have paved the way for policy changes that drive emission reductions by reducing deforestation and forest degradation and the improvement of forest carbon stocks. The project was part of the “Sustainable Landscapes” program of technical cooperation from USAID and the U.S. Status: Completed Start date: Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011 |
| This project aims to improve gene manipulation technologies, develop more efficient methodologies for cell transfection, and improve vectors' construction linked to genetically modified pigs and poultry production. These objectives are in synergy with the Genetic Engineering in Agribusiness portfolio and meet demands for genetic engineering innovations on animal species of economic and social interest. Transgenic animals are bred for various purposes and can be used as bioreactors, models for hu Status: In progress Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
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Poultry and pigs are among the most useful zootechnical species in Brazilian agricultural production. Although these species' large-scale commercial production rely on international commercial genetics initiatives, there is a significant demand for genetics materials adapted to rural development projects of interest to the Brazilian government. This project has two aims: 1) to preserve in situ Embrapa's pure lines of broilers and laying hens selected for multiple characteristics, free-range c ...Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| Due to the crescent quest for renewable energy sources, the biodiesel production from renewable sources has created exceeding amounts of glycerol as a biodiesel sub-product. Currently, the most important consumer markets for glycerol are the industries of food, drinks, cosmetics, paper, ink, lubricants and resin. Thusly, studies that aim to find new uses, and open new consumer markets for glycerol have been strongly stimulated, and have been increasingly challenging scientists of practically all Status: Completed Start date: Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 |
| Brazilian family farming is characterized by its diversity, which is associated with the various elements of its historical background. Considering the importance and the need to hold and share new Family Farming values, we emphasize the role of experimentation and systematization to give visibility to experiences and foster an articulated network involving a proposal for a solidary sustainable development. Valuing and, above all, raising awareness of this potentiality is essential for the estab Status: Completed Start date: Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012 |
| After eight years of intervention among the mangaba fruit picker women, an inter-institutional and inter-disciplinary team in the northeast and north of Brazil has mapped extractivist areas, has written about the importance of its practices to the conservation of biodiversity and culture, has supported the foundation of the Mangaba Fruit Picker Women Movement (MCM), has trained fruit picker women and has systematized essential knowledge to the comprehension of their life styles. In addition, it Status: Completed Start date: Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011 |
| The sesame crop has aroused, in recent years, the interest of new producers and rural entrepreneurs in the Brazilian Center-West, with emphasis on the micro-regions of Mato Grosso North and Middle Araguaia and Middle North, as an alternative for profitable cultivation that can be used in rotation and/or succession of crops, mainly with soybeans. Thus, producers in the state identified a great business opportunity in sesame, combined with favorable conditions for the development of the crop with Status: Completed Start date: Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2022 |