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

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

The objective of this project is to structure a Strategic Territorial Intelligence System (SITE, Sistema de Inteligência Territorial Estratégica in Portuguese) to support the sustainable development of agriculture within the Brazilian Caatinga biome. A SITE’s design, construction and operation is based on a broad and strict methodological procedure for organizing georeferenced and analytical information of five dimensions: natural, agrarian, agricultural, infrastructural and socioeconomic framew ...

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