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This project aims to develop an open access digital platform in which data from Federal Government social programs focusing on farmers are available for crossings and spatial visualization. The tool was requested by the National Secretariat for Food and Nutritional Security of the former Ministry of Social Development (Sesan / MDS), and consists of a geoweb with information that allows the elaboration of coverage maps for five social programs: Food Acquisition (PAA), Promotion of Rural Produc

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

This project intends to offer technical and scientific support to Secretariat for Family Farms and Cooperatives (Secretaria de Agricultura Familiar e de Cooperativismo, SAF) of the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (Mapa). In the project are foreseen analyses of the Pronaf Release Statement (Declaração de Aptidão ao Pronaf, DAP) database and other correlated databases which are to be made available over the span of the cooperation. The DAP is a legal instrument to attest th ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed May 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019

After eight years of intervention among the mangaba fruit picker women, an inter-institutional and inter-disciplinary team in the northeast and north of Brazil has mapped extractivist areas, has written about the importance of its practices to the conservation of biodiversity and culture, has supported the foundation of the Mangaba Fruit Picker Women Movement (MCM), has trained fruit picker women and has systematized essential knowledge to the comprehension of their life styles. In addition, it

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

Nanotechnology is increasingly allowing the creation of new materials and products whose application is capable of revolutionizing various areas of science. One of the technologies under development today by Embrapa's Nano Network is the controlled release of agricultural inputs. So far there are three controlled release vehicles already developed: (1) a hydrogel made of polyacrylamide (PAAm) reticulated with methylcelullose (MC); (2) chitosan and methacrylic acid nanoparticlesand (3) chitosan a

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