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

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

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

This project aimed to measure the area dedicated to the preservation of native vegetation inside rural properties in the state of Piauí. Based on a territorial section (state of Piauí) and the data declared in the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR), available in the Rural Environmental Registry System of the Ministry of the Environment (SICAR), an analysis of the territorial context of the areas dedicated to the preservation of native vegetation in rural areas was carried out using increasing an ...

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

This project was carried out in the region of Pernambuco known as Sertão and in the north of Bahia in order to train rural leaders, extension workers and agricultural technicians in silviculture of multiple-use forest species and agroforestry systems, as well as notions of ecology and the environment. Through courses and training, agents were trained to develop and implement a sustainable management plan for the caatinga area in small and medium rural properties in the Brazilian semiarid regi

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008

This project aims to develop an agricultural and phytosanitary monitoring and an early warning system for the region of Western Bahia. The project marks the beginning of a partnership between Embrapa units and rural producers in that region, through their associations, to provide more and more complex information that will increase the phytosanitary security of soybean and cotton crops in the region, reduce the cost of production and the environmental impact of crops, increase safety in relation

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Nov 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019

This project is part of the cooperation between Embrapa Territorial and the Ministry of the Environment's International Relations aiming to contribute and support, with technical and scientific methods of territorial intelligence, the ministerial strategy of actions to prevent and combat the processes of desertification and land degradation in the area covered by the Caatinga biome. The project aims at structuring a digital platform, accessible to the external public, providing the presentation,

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

Embrapa Satellite Monitoring, in a partnership with Indiana University (USA), coordinated the research project "Human and Physical Dimensions of Land Use/Cover Change in Amazônia: A multi-scale synthesis”. The project ended in 2010, and was part of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazônia (LBA). The research encompassed seven study areas and made a transversal analysis of the social and biophysical dimensions of transformations in the Amazon landscape. Rural settlements wer

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008

The objective of this project is to structure a Strategic Territorial Management System for the Brazilian Cerrado (SGTE-Cerrados), with emphasis on the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR), seeking to systematize information, characterize, monitor indicators and perform periodic analyzes that allow an adequate understanding of the agricultural use and occupation of the biome in its territorial, economic, social and environmental dimensions. The importance of this project is in the generation of st

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2018

This project aims to develop an open access digital platform in which data from Federal Government social programs focusing on farmers are available for crossings and spatial visualization. The tool was requested by the National Secretariat for Food and Nutritional Security of the former Ministry of Social Development (Sesan / MDS), and consists of a geoweb with information that allows the elaboration of coverage maps for five social programs: Food Acquisition (PAA), Promotion of Rural Produc

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016