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

The present project is mainly aimed to train technical assistance and rural extension professionals through continuing education courses, consisting of four basic modules to review fundamental knowledge and level up groups. Implementing horticultural technical reference units is one of the goals of the project

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

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

Using the data declared by the farmers in the Brazilian Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) maintained by the Brazilian Forest System, this project intends to analyze areas destined for the preservation of native vegetation in rural properties, and legally assigned areas. This analysis is focused on a delimited territory (the State of Rondônia) and performed at increasing, successive levels, city > microregion > and the state of Rondônia, as requested by the Soybean Producers Association in Rondô ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019

The project addresses the limited supply of public and private technical assistance and rural extension in view of the large number of agricultural producers scattered throughout the national territory. Its general objective is to expand the access to quality technical assistance services by small and family-based producers of eggs and pigs, based on the development of easy-to-use digital tools. The project partners are Embrapa Swine and Poultry and Maneje Bem, a technology-based company that

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2020

The Basic Sanitation System for Rural Areas was initially composed of two technologies, the "Biodigester Septic Tank" and the "Embrapa Chlorinator", developed by the researcher Antônio Pereira de Novaes (deceased). Such technologies, due to their social and national reach, have provided great returns to Brazilian society. Embrapa Instrumentation has made efforts to disseminate the system in the entire domestic territory through public and private partnerships, however, it has observed the need t ...

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

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

This project aims at promoting the identification, recognition and added value to Inhamuns backcountry, in Ceará state, as a space for innovation in the production of small ruminants, with a focus on localized agrifood systems, based on the identification of economic, social, environmental and cultural elements of that territory. The expectation is to build knowledge about the management of animal agrobiodiversity, redesign of agroecosystems, and promote quality in the traditional food productio ...

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

Ecological alternatives may contribute to the attainment of sustainability of productive family units through the balanced use of natural resources in the Amazon. Among these viable alternatives, stand out in the Amazon the initiatives of land preparation without the use of fire, such as the Tipitamba Project, the Roça without Fires Project, Agroforest Systems and agroecological alternatives practiced by the region's farmers. The availability of knowledge and practices through the training of en ...

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

The project aims to promote and develop of turtle farming in the municipality of Pracuúba, state of Amapá, combining bioecological aspects to support the management of . The project will be developed in a natural environment and in captivity to generate technologies, aiming at improving the species' cultivation systems and supplementing community's income. The promotion of aquaculture development in the state meets not only an environmental demand, but also an economic and social one. With th

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