One of the greatest challenges of humanity is to ensure water in sufficient quantity and quality to supply the global demand.
One way to achieve that would be to use economic instruments. An example of this type of compensation is the Payment for Environmental Services (PES).
Currently, Payments for Water Environmental Services Programs are in continuous expansion in the country due to the increasing demand for water and society’s willingness to pay for the services.
This project aim ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012

The intense world demand for food together with environmental issues related to the sustainable use of natural resources draw a picture of search for the maximum efficiency in agricultural productivity, which involves greater efficiency in monitoring crop areas. Analytical tools capable of encompassing sample variation and territorial reach demand high costs for their operation and for the replication of results. Remote sensing has proved a very efficient tool for mapping/monitoring agricultu

Status: Completed     Start date: Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011

Forest systems are part of an important land-use strategy aimed at the maintenance of biodiversity, at the commercialization of wood products and other products, at quality of life and at environmental services such as carbon fixation. The greenhouse gas emission flows and the carbon stocked in the forests are indispensable information, and their estimation may support public policies on development and sustainability. Project GeoSaltus focuses on the use of geotechnologies for the developmen

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a quarter of the national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions comes from agricultural activities, and 93% of the CH4 emitted originates from enteric fermentation. Despite that, the agriculture practiced within given management standards can result in a lower GHG emissions. The GeoPecus project's goal is the application of geotechnologies for the understanding of the cause and effect relationship between agricultural activities and the

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011

Safety is among consumers’ main concerns when it comes to food quality. One of the challenges faced in beef production in Brazil is combining production intensification with sustainability. Several aspects that used to be less valued earlier, such as quality, safety, food hygiene and product reliability, have become indispensable. In this context, the demand for traceability of the information regarding food is an important condition when the aim is conquering the customer's loyalty and trust

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011

There is currently a strong interest to comprehend, evaluate and minimize anthropic impacts on hydric resources. It has been particularly studied the effect of removing native vegetal covering over water availability and quality. In order to estimate the effects of changing vegetal covering over hydric resources, hydrologic modeling becomes an adequate tool. However, hydrologic models need great amounts of information, which in most times are unavailable. On the other hand, data obtained through

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

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

Soil quality may be measured through the use of indicators, which are attributes that measure or reflect the environmental state or condition of sustainability of the referred ecosystem. The knowledge regarding the spatial distribution of soil quality and its levels becomes essential in this case, once it favors the study of their relation with the type of soil management, with the environmental impact and the productive capability of agricultural systems. For such, it is important to have a met

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009

Agricultural Sanitary problems don't obey frontier lines, especially when there is land continuity as is the case of the borderland strip between Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru. Embrapa Satellite Monitoring and the Department of Agricultural Defense of the Ministry of Agriculture have developed a system to help agricultural defense along the borderland strip, with the main goal to contribute to the eradication of the foot and mouth disease. Precise and up-to-date knowledge on spatial distrib

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009

The total extension of the grasslands in Brazil still isn't quantified with precision, and even less are the degraded pastures. The demand for technologies that are able to quickly map and monitor the areas which are occupied with grasslands and their level of degradation, with precision and low costs, are ever growing. This research investigates the potential of the correlation between the data extracted from satellite images and data regarding grassland degradation obtained in field s

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009