Agroforestry systems (AFS) combine planting trees with agricultural crops or animal husbandry and are considered suitable production systems for the Amazon region because they reconcile agricultural production with the conservation of natural resources, which is a great challenge today.

This project intends to develop efficient agroforestry systems that are compatible with the Amazonian environment and that generate a positive impact on the socio-economic conditions of rural producers ...

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

This project's main goal is to promote knowledge building in partnership with the extractivist community through research actions to adapt and generate technologies and innovation for the sustainable use of bamboo forests, and diversify production activities in the Chico Mendes Extractivist Reserve with the insertion of bamboo into the production systems of the production units.

In Southwestern Amazonia, on the triple frontier between Brazil, Peru ,and Bolivia, there are forests where a ...

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