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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

The state of Pará is responsible for 80% of the national black pepper production, and Brazil is the third biggest producer and exporter of the spice. However, the production and productivity of the culture has been decreasing throughout the years due to the occurrence of the root rotting disease caused by Fusarium solani f sp. Piperis in a great number of black pepper farms, leading to great economical loss and substantial decline in plantation area along the period of more than forty ye ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007

Ecological alternatives may contribute to the attainment of sustainability of productive family units through the balanced use of natural resources in the Amazon. Among these viable alternatives, stand out in the Amazon the initiatives of land preparation without the use of fire, such as the Tipitamba Project, the Roça without Fires Project, Agroforest Systems and agroecological alternatives practiced by the region's farmers. The availability of knowledge and practices through the training of en ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011

Sustainability of traditional cultivation systems (slash-and-burn) depends especially on long periods of set-aside in order to reestablish the stock of the soil's nutrients and raw organic material used and/or lost during the agricultural period. Population growth and decrease in the region's secondary vegetation availability has progressively reduced the set-aside period, subsequently increasing the pressure on riparian areas and cultivated ones. The result if degradation of natural resources a

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009