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

Embrapa and Campinas’ City Hall (Prefeitura Municipal de Campinas) produced the School Atlas for the Metropolitan Region of Campinas using data and information on agricultural activities and their importance for the transformation of the region’s landscape. After the Atlas was published, the partnership continued in a new project with the aim of encouraging its use by teachers and students within the Campinas’ public school network. Prefeitura Municipal de Campinas created Programa

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

Herbariums are scientific collections that keep samples of dried plants (exsicatas) from different ecosystems. The information contained in these places are basic sources for taxonomic, floristic, biogeographical, phenological and ecological studies, as well as providing data for the work on biodiversity, medicinal, toxic, fodder, food, among many others. In a simplified way, herbariums can be compared to archives, in which it is possible to collect diverse information about plants, such as habi

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016

The objective is to establish a pilot network project for the production and distribution of manivas-cassava seed, with genetic and phytosanitary quality, to serve beneficiary families of the "Brazil Without Misery Plan" and to promote the increase of the supply of cassava to the Self-consumption of these families.
The project will have, in each Territory, local partners of Technical Assistance and Rural Extension.

Status: Completed     Start date: Thu May 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014

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