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

Among the many plagues which attack worldwide fruit culture, the fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) stand out for being present in all continents, and in practically all types of environment, being thus great hinderers of worldwide fruit production. In the Amazonian region, 5 species are already known in Acre, 28 in Amazonas, 22 in Amapá. 20 in Pará, 5 in Rondônia, 13 in Roraima and 16 in Tocantins, belonging to the genera Anastrepha, Bactrocera and Ceratitis./nThe state of Pará presents great d ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Mon Mar 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.).

Great part of the country's culture of palm oil is concentrated in the Amazon region, with the state of Pará as its largest producer (93%). However, a great obs ...

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

The Inovaflora project aims to offer technological solutions through participatory methodologies to improve the socio-productive condition of family farmers in the Amazon, and to contribute to the adaptation of rural properties to environmental legislation regarding the restoration and recovery of altered areas, through systems integrated production systems in arrangements involving species of economic value in the region. The actions are being developed in family communities in municipaliti ...

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

The Amapá state has extensive forests and savannas, which are important carbon stocks being negatively affected due to agricultural, forestry and industrial activities. Thus the project aims to develop a methodology applicable to the entire State of Amapá, aiming to reach all types of existing vegetation, being the basis for estimates of forest biomass and the quantification of carbon stocks, in addition to enabling the monitoring of changes caused on biomass due to the economic activities de

Status: Completed     Start date: Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016

In the greatest part of the Brazilian Amazon, family farming is practiced with the system of forest slash and burn. This practice is questionable due to the consequential loss of nutrients, the emission of harmful gases into the atmosphere and the risk of uncontrollable fires. This agricultural system keeps productivity levels which decrease with the succession of fires and short set-aside periods. Systems of integrated management of natural resources which involve mitigating technologies of env

Status: Completed     Start date: Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010

The Brazil Nut Tree, also known as Pará's Nut Tree or Amazonia's Nut Tree ( Bertholletia excelsa Bonpl., Lecythidaceae), is one of the most exuberant trees of the Amazonian Forest. It produces woody fruits (husks), which have from 10 to 25 seeds (almonds), that can be consumed in natura or industrialized, rich in proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins and selenium. In Brazil, the largest producers of Brazil Nut are the stateds of Pará, Amazonas, Acre and Rondônia. This nut's se ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010