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The goal of the project is to learn the capacity of the current production systems and of alternative technologies focused on carbon accumulation and sequestration in the soil and on reducing (direct or indirect) greenhouse gas - GHG - emissions. Such knowledge is essential for the investigation and foresight of future scenarios and for the planning of public policy to encourage the adoption of global warming mitigation practices. This project comprises the investigation and analysis of grain pr

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

The project aimed to quantify carbon stocks and assess the impact of human activity on changes in carbon stocks in the Amazon Forest. In that region, in response to the potential climatic effects of deforestation, policy makers have paved the way for policy changes that drive emission reductions by reducing deforestation and forest degradation and the improvement of forest carbon stocks. The project was part of the “Sustainable Landscapes” program of technical cooperation from USAID and the U.S.

Status: Completed     Start date: Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011

The internal audits appoint the procedures that are not in accordance with the norms and legislation of the Firm. The institution being audited presents the justifications and clarifications, establishing a deadline for the adjustment of those irregularities. Upon receiving the documentation and justifications of the audited part, the Internal Audit Advisory (AUD) analyses and responds informing whether it will abide or maintain the pending irregularities, by means of correspondence and thus suc

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007

This project aims to study nutritional factors and establish new types of diets for tilapia ( Oreochromis niloticus), pintado ( Pseudoplatystoma corruscans), tambaqui ( Colossoma macropomum) and marine shrimp ( Litopenaeus vannamei.), species inserted into production chains still incipient in Brazil. Due to the differentiated state of each species, studies were conducted in oreder to fill the nutritional gaps in key technological areas in which each species had greate ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007

The infection of the swine herd with Salmonella and consequently, the presence of this micro-organism in swine products, has been a serious concern since it can be a great threat to the consumers themselves. Embrapa Swine and Poultry and UFRGS teamed up to develop tools and epidemiological studies that can characterize the problem, the contamination sources and the infection dynamics in the country's southern herds. This project aims to propose a systematic control of the Salmonella infection in

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007

Society has become increasingly aware of the need to preserve the environment and health, demanding quality standards for food and agro-ecosystems. In this context, the rational use of phytosanitary products guarantees the sustainability of food production systems, mitigating, and even eliminating the effects caused by the indiscriminate use of chemical control. Other relevant aspects to be considered are the benefits arising from the crop-livestock integration that mitigate the negative effects

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007

The culture of black pepper ( Piper nigrum L.) is of great socio-economical importance in the northern states of Brazil, Pará especially. However, its production has been suffering the incidence of diseases such as the one caused by the Cucumber mosaic virus(CMV) and the Piper yellow mottle virs (PYMoV). Although these viruses have already been reported in many of the Brazilian states, there are too few studies that address the virus diseases which affect this culture. Hence, this project ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007

What is the cost of producing one liter of milk in Brazil? Any answer between R$ 0.10 and R$ 1.70 is true. But, also, it is not essentially true. This occurs for two major reasons, both resulting from a lack of standardization. The first reason is that there is an immense amount of production systems in Brazil, from the South to the North. Therefore, in Brazil, rural properties are not standardized, as in Europe, the USA, Canada and Oceania. Each farm is a farm. The second reason is that there i

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008

Concentrated feeds play an important role in milk production, both from the nutritional as the economic aspects, especially for animal production. The behavior of corn and soybean meal prices, for instance, have an important weight in the formation of milk production costs and consequently on the profitability of dairy farming. The current agricultural markets have shown a rise in prices of these grain-based brans. Milk production in Minas Gerais appears as one of the most important activities f

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008

The general objective of this project was to identify microbial strains that produce enzymes capable of degrading fibers or hydrolyzing secondary anti-nutritional compounds, aiming to identify microbial isolates (rumen bacteria or fungi) with fibrolytic capacity or tolerant to anti-nutritional factors, as well as to expeditiously isolate and characterize fibrolytic enzymes. It was also the objective of this project that the use of laboratory procedures would serve to train undergraduate and grad

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008