Legal norms and market behavior demand a new posture when facing the environment of various economical factors. In the forest sector, this posture has been defined through the restructuring of the use and occupation of cultivated areas with commercial forests, promoting the environmental compliance of productive activities. This reorganization of rural areas, and areas of permanent preservation and legal reserves which were improperly occupied by forest activities, and thus opposing current legi

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009

Agroforestry systems (AFS) combine planting trees with agricultural crops or animal husbandry and are considered suitable production systems for the Amazon region because they reconcile agricultural production with the conservation of natural resources, which is a great challenge today.

This project intends to develop efficient agroforestry systems that are compatible with the Amazonian environment and that generate a positive impact on the socio-economic conditions of rural producers ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012

The Extractive Reserve (Resex) "Forever Green" was created in 2004, in an area of 1,288,717 hectares in Porto de Moz- PA. The families that live in this reserve survive especially of artisan fishing, of subsistence agriculture and of raising domesticated buffalos. The region's income increase face the lack of technical knowledge and difficulty of direct access to the consumer market as main obstacles, point out locals. This project aims to organize and develop practices inside Resex with the int ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007

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