The use of vegetable fibers as reinforcement in polymeric matrices has been an increasing demand of the industry, mainly because the whole environmental issue. The search for renewable sources, as well as the search for biodegradable products has been increasing in recent years. Pineapple fiber, more precisely from Curauá (Ananas comousus var. Erectifolius), is already being used to replace fiberglass in reinforcing polymer composites, with applications in the automotive industry. However, other ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010

Yuca is a highlighted culture for the state of Pará, not only for its importance in the state's cuisine, but also for representing a source of income for thousands of agriculture producers. The culture can also give support to the state's agro-industry, by means of supplying raw materials used in the fabrication of many products. In order to be incremented in the state of Pará, the yuca culture needs to go through a genetic improvement program, in the hopes of obtaining material which is more ad ...

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

Reducing post-harvest food waste and losses can substantially contribute to reducing food insecurity. Post-harvest operations are characterized as all the steps that follow the harvest of a product until its consumption. In this project, we are devoting efforts to disseminating technologies to reduce the losses that exist in operations after the harvest of fruits and vegetables, in the municipalities of Cláudia and Sinop. Thus, the target audience of this project are agroecologically based rural ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2022

Brazil is one of the world's largest producers of agricultural products. However, there is still a persistent international perception that the country's production comes at the expense of significant environmental damage, which does not reflect the diverse reality of Brazilian agriculture. Sustainability indicators proposed by international organizations such as FAO/UN and OECD repeatedly rank Brazil among the countries with the worst performance when they disregard the fact that the country

Status: In progress     Start date: Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2022

Native forests help regulate the Earth's climate by storing carbon (C) and reducing greenhousegases (GHG), which heat up the planet. For this reason, removing C from the atmosphere andstoring it in the biomass of trees (roots, trunks, branches, and leaves) and in the soil andlowering emissions of GHG such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide can helpregulate global temperatures. However, there is still little information about the magnitude ofthese processes in most forests, including u

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019

The Kamukaia project, in its third phase, focuses on valuing non-timber forest products (NTFP) in the Amazon, aiming at promoting the multiple use of sociobiodiversity products in agroextractive communities and their economic strengthening. The management and the transformation of NTFP are important links for the strengthening of their value chains, essential for the conservation of ecosystems and economic development in the Amazon. It is in this sense that the project is structured, also aim

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019

Brazil has the second-largest area of total forest cover in the world, but is in ninth place interms of planted forests. Still, these are responsible for 91% of the total amount of woodproduced for industrial purposes in the country. Brazil's area of eucalyptus plantationsincreased 75% between 2004 and 2015, and the greatest mean annual increases in plantedarea were seen in the central region of the country (over 90,000 ha/yr); this was the second-largest in terms of area currently planted, quad

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019

Concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere have increased considerably asa result of anthropic activities such as changes in land use, farming, and actions involvingburning fossil fuels. In Brazil, there is considerable action in the global effort to address climatechange, mainly to comply with the international agreements mediated by the United NationsFramework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Brazil's various commitments includereducing GHG emissions and increasing remova

Status: In progress     Start date: Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019

The CUSTOSUINO-MT project is the result of technical cooperation between Embrapa Swine and Poultry and the Mato Grosso Institute of Agricultural Economics (Imea) to implement a system for monitoring pig production costs in Mato Grosso to subsidize private agents and the formulation of public policies for the supply chain. The activities developed involve the training of technicians and the survey of technical production coefficients and prices of inputs and factors of production.

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Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2020

This project intends to offer technical and scientific support to Secretariat for Family Farms and Cooperatives (Secretaria de Agricultura Familiar e de Cooperativismo, SAF) of the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (Mapa). In the project are foreseen analyses of the Pronaf Release Statement (Declaração de Aptidão ao Pronaf, DAP) database and other correlated databases which are to be made available over the span of the cooperation. The DAP is a legal instrument to attest th ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed May 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019