The project aims at assessing methods and innovative techniques in the area of Remote Sensing and spatial data integration for detection in cultivation practices and production systems, especially integrated crop-livestock-forestry systems (ICLFs) and variations, which constitute one of the key points of the low carbon agriculture policy.
On a local scale, the goal is to evaluate the potential of new techniques and methodologies that apply to the new Sentinel 2 sensor with regard to the det ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015

The aim of this project was to strengthen the SUSTRURAL array - a set of Embrapa projects related to environmental rehabilitation and compliance in the rural landscape of the Atlantic Rainforest in Southern and Southeastern Brazil - based on deeper integration and training of component members.
SUSTRURAL was created to study solutions to the problems experienced by the rural landscape of the Atlantic Rainforest, which is characterized by the prevalence of fragmented forest ecosystems, parti ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016

Water´s storage and management are a great challenge for the scarce rural population that inhabits the brazilian semiárido. The adoption of hydric social technologies to produce drinkable water for both human and animal and the food production contributed with a better life quality for the region´s families. The underground dam is one of the technologies that has helped many poor families, producing food and giving back their dignity. However, due to the enormous soil diversity in the semiárido, ...

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

Because it is home to the greatest biodiversity on the planet, Brazil enjoys a wealth of non-timber forest products (NTFPs). In recent decades, governments and NGOs have focused onthese products as a source of income for rural communities and traditional populations, aswell as to help preserve and sustainably manage forests. In the south of the country, Araucariaforests are comprised of native fruit trees with significant use potential, such as gabiroba(Campomanesia spp.). But these species are

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

This project proposes to carry out temporal updates on the Strategic Territorial Intelligence System of the Brazilian Agricultural Macro-logistics (SITE-MLog), and has gone through three stages of execution since 2016 and was launched in 2018. The platform allows generating more than 500 thousand interactive maps for 10 agricultural products corresponding to more than 75% of the national agricultural production and favors the contextualization and analysis of territorial situations and generatio

Status: Completed     Start date: Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019

Cotton cropping in Peru is a thousand-year-old activity that goes back to ancient civilizations that developed in that region. Cotton has historically been an important source of resources for the Peruvian population and supplied raw material for the textile industry. They cultivate the long or extra-long fiber species Gossipium hirsutum and G. barbadense. National cotton production has been declining in recent years, with major social impact, as this crop is predominantly cultivated by family f

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015

Whitefly is currently one of the main pests in Brazil. The insect causes direct damages (sap suction, toxin injection, and physiological disorders) and indirect damages (helping sooty mold grow and transmitting phytopathogenic viruses). Reports of damages started right after its entrance in the country, the likely source of which has been traced to an import of ornamental plants in the 1990s. After this introduction, the insect became very well adapted to Brazilian cropping conditions and spread

Status: Completed     Start date: Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014

Maps, zoning and monitoring resources are examples of geospatial information which are daily used for planning, managing resources, decision making, and for public policies. Geoinformation are of strategic importance for several sectors, including for strengthening Brazilian agriculture and for transferring the knowledge produced by Embrapa to society. To quickly produce, organize and make geospatial services and data available, Embrapa needed an up-to-date, modern data infrastructure, to ena

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

The artisanal cheese production stands out as an important activity for income generation of family farmers in different regions of the country, such as the Coalho Cheese produced in the Northeast, the Colonial Cheese in the South and, more specifically, the Minas Artesanais cheese types, such as Canastra and Serro, produced in the State of Minas Gerais. However, among the main obstacles related to production and marketing in the formal market, stands the possibility (or not) to reconcile legal

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

This project aims at strengthening bilateral cooperation in Science and Technology between Brazil and China, for the development of the bamboo production chain in the Brazilian territory, through activities stipulated by the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the Brazilian and Chinese governments in April 2011, for the purpose to intensifying the sharing of scientific knowledge and technologies between Brazilian and Chinese research institutions and the exchange of technological information w

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014