This research project aims to study organic sugarcane cultivation areas of the Santo Antônio Sugar Mill in Sertãozinho, São Paulo, with emphasis on mapping and characterizing the current status of the vegetation within Permanent Preservation Areas (APPs, from the acronym in Portuguese), for the implementation of an agro-ecological project. The research project should promote an increment to the faunal biodiversity and production systems in such properties, helping the dispersion of seeds along t ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011

The overall objective of this project was to strengthen Brazil’s green economy by harmonizing economic development and environmental conservation through sustainable agriculture that does not harm the environment, using soil and plant biomass management in organic production systems as a starting point. Unlike many agricultural production systems, organic agriculture offers a range of practices and techniques that potentially contribute to increase sustainability, including soil and plant biomas

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

Low-carbon agriculture, a program introduced by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply in mid-2010, aims to combine the sustainable production of food, fibers and energy with the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the conservation of natural resources. To this end, the Brazilian government encourages the use of the following techniques: no-till farming, biological nitrogen fixation, integrated crop-livestock-forest systems, planting of commercial forests, recovery of de

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Apr 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 Precision Agriculture (PA) network, coordinated by Embrapa, has obtained significant results in terms of knowledge on the variability of the production and environmental parameters of plants, pests and diseases of diverse crops such as soybean, corn, cotton, wheat, eucalyptus, sugarcane Sugar, orange, grape, apple and peach.

The network made possible the integration of research efforts in the theme, with the participation of more than 150 researchers, 21 Embrapa Units, more than 5

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016

In fruit cultivation, Brazil occupies the third place among the world's major producers, especially with regard to fresh oranges, which accounted for the single largest growth in 2006 with more than 50,000 tons, an increase of 64% in volume and 85% in value compared to 2005 (AgroBrasil, 2006). The numbers reflect the dominance the country has maintained in the sector over the years, not only in the production of oranges and their byproducts, but also in the export of such products, especially fr

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010

PortGEO brought together several projects and actions developed at Embrapa with a thematic focus on the study and assessment of environmental, socioeconomic and institutional factors associated with the dynamics of land use and cover (causes and effects), as well as their interactions, impacts, products and outcomes. The project was developed to manage and consolidate information from Embrapa's R&D and TT projects within a consolidated structure, in order to organize, make this information avail ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015

Food education represents a factor of great importance to change malnutrition conditions, especially with regard to children, for a better quality of life based on the supply of accessible, low-cost foods with higher nutritional value. In view of such need, family farming represents a great potential to revert the malnutrition scenario, and the Food Biofortification project, led by Embrapa Food Agroindustry, is an alternative to offer technologies with nutritional added value aimed at family far

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Jun 22 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012

Family farming is an economically important segment nationwide, but has many weaknesses of social and technological order. Parallel to this, concerns about the negative environmental impacts of agriculture, livestock and forestry are getting increasingly important on the agenda of society, and the use of inadequate agricultural practices is one of the main causes of degradation of cultivated areas. Given the growing worldwide demand for food, fiber, wood and biofuels, and the consequent need for

Status: Completed     Start date: Thu May 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014

The Serra Geral Territory, located in the north of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, is composed of 16 municipalities and has an area of ​​20,581.20 km ², a total population of 285,678 inhabitants (2010 Census, IBGE), 105,196 of them living in rural areas, which correspond to 36.82% of the total. The main business of productive inclusion of the 41,011 family farming establishments, resulting in diversified economy in the rural sector, are dairy cattle, cotton farming, fruit growing of native

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012