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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

Implementing communication and technology transfer actions that maximize the understanding, use and reuse of information and technologies generated by Embrapa and adapted to the state of Mato Grosso. The proposal is to promote in loco practical activities such as transfer and environmental education activities, exploring the rural space defined in technological (annual and perennial crops) and ecological (Permanent Preservation Areas- PPA) pathways, and the virtual space with the use of informat

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

The present project is mainly aimed to train technical assistance and rural extension professionals through continuing education courses, consisting of four basic modules to review fundamental knowledge and level up groups. Implementing horticultural technical reference units is one of the goals of the project

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011

We can define Rural Cultural Heritage as a set of material and immaterial records arising from the practices, customs and production initiatives that have been historically and geographically established in rural areas. The "Rural Cultural Heritage in São Paulo: A Valuable Place for Research, Education and Tourism" project aimed at providing a set of management, conservation and dissemination tools and methodologies for those responsible for rural cultural heritage, including both owners and the ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010

There has been increased interest in the use of techniques to collect and store rainwater in the last few decades, with funding from national and international bodies; however, the general performance of these activities at farmer level is lower than expected, and that relates to the lack of knowledge of the existence and importance of techniques to cope with semiarid conditions.
Considering the social-economic importance of agricultural activities in rain-dependent areas, it is necessary to ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010

Campinas' Metropolitan region has a wide selection of information and data that might be used to promote a better understanding of the agricultural and stockbreeding sector to society. This information is rarely accessed by elementary students due to the lack of personalized didactic material, elaborated by teachers, with the depth required in class. The GeoAtlas project aims to supply this gap with the elaboration of the School Atlas of Campinas' Metropolitan Region. It focuses on the main regi

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