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| Enzymes have their function essentially determined by specific residue known as catalytic residue. Most methods to predict enzyme catalytic residue uses at least one criterion of primary sequence conservation. Considering that the function is a product of the structure, this project aims to identify among the structural descriptors available in the Sting software database those of higher relevance in the discrimination of catalytic residue. Thus, the project will propose a new enzyme classificat Status: Completed Start date: Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 |
| The aim of this project is to create a multicriteria sustainability index for family-based agricultural units in Amazônia. This effort is performed with participation of farmers, their children and technicians, and combines theoretical knowledge and methods with local experiences. To fulfil this purpose, the project's team will be promoting workshops in each of the states that make up the Brazilian Amazon region, with the aim of defining economic, social, environmental and governance indicators. ... Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| 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. Status: Completed Start date: Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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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 |
| Units of family agriculture and natural resources in the Amazon suffer severe negative impacts due to: the lack of sustainable alternates in the use of agricultural areas, and the expansion of exploitative predatory logging, extensive stockbreeding and large scale mechanized agriculture. Integrated systems of management of natural resources involving technologies that mitigate environmental impact represent sustainable alternates to small farmers and natural resources, once the adoption of more Status: Completed Start date: Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008 |
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This project was carried out in the region of Pernambuco known as Sertão and in the north of Bahia in order to train rural leaders, extension workers and agricultural technicians in silviculture of multiple-use forest species and agroforestry systems, as well as notions of ecology and the environment. Through courses and training, agents were trained to develop and implement a sustainable management plan for the caatinga area in small and medium rural properties in the Brazilian semiarid regi ...Status: Completed Start date: Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008 |
| Local knowledge: social and economic insertion of family milk producers in a sustainable environment Family farming in Brazil has great potential, representing a sector of relevant social and economic importance for Brazilian society, although it also shows weaknesses. Some strategies such as farming on an ecological basis as well as artisanal products have been considered to support and intermediate the insertion of smallholders in the market. To this end, this project sought to implement the use of ecologically based production systems and encourage non-agricultural activities as a means to p Status: Completed Start date: Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008 |