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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

In family farming system, farmers and their families are responsible for agricultural work and for the management of small and medium property. Often, the low purchasing power of the majority and the lack of appropriate technical guidance make farmers adopt undesirable practices while growing maize. The range of satisfactory yields depends, among other factors, on a good soil fertility, seeding in appropriate times, an effective management of insect pests and diseases, and especially quality

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

The transfer of technology is an integral and inseparable part of Innovation. It is critical to transform the innovation assets generated by scientific research into real benefits - products, processes and services - for producers and society as a whole. In the field of animal reproduction, TT tools have been instrumental in democratizing access to advances in the use of selected germplasm reproductive biotechnologies, contributing to the development of animal breeding programs. This project aim

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

In recent years, distance learning via the internet has become an important means of professional qualification, especially in Brazil, a country of continental dimensions. Whereas milk production is scattered throughout the national territory, distance learning offers the opportunity to bring information to professionals across the country. To this end, this project included the design, offering and accomplishment of the first distance learning courses of Embrapa Dairy Cattle, namely: "Sampling, ...

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

Bifequali TT takes technologies to beef cattle farmers, with a focus on capacity-building for technicians. The participating properties are monitored and assessed so that the impact of the application of Embrapa's recommendations can be learned.
In 2013, technicians and Demonstrative Units were selected. The technicians have undergone training and the Demonstrative Units have been visited by members of the program. With the submission of this project, the group that is working on the progra ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014

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

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

Our goal is to train and mentor technicians in the dairy sector; strengthen the ties between research, extension and the production sector; and drive technologies to different regions and target audiences of the state of Mato Grosso through the Continuing Education method called the Training and Visit System - T&V

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