This study analyses the mobilization experience of two groups of women which practice mangaba extractivism and call themselves pickers. They inhabit restinga areas (sandbanks) and tabuleiros (tablelands) in the Brazilian northeast and fields of the north, where they practice various activities (fishing, handicraft, tourism wage-earning, etc.), which are essential to their family's reproduction. This project's goal is to analyze the mobilization experience of women mangaba fruit pickers in the co

Status: Completed     Start date: Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009

Dairy Cattle Farming represents one of the most important alternatives to migrating slash-and-burn agriculture in the Amazon, and lately, has been suffering a process of intensification. This activity has presented in the last years significant growth rates in the northern region, being thus one of the greatest in the country although it remains as the region with the smallest aggregate production. However, this evolution is predominantly a result of the increase in the dairy cattle herd and in

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010

Failures to transmit information significantly impair the coordination and interaction between the different agents in the milk production chain. A large number of nationally based companies and a myriad of producers and policy makers face the challenge of structuring themselves for competition in a globalized business world. The main objective of the project was to provide information, structural analysis and monitoring of conjunctural developments in the milk production chain, in order to meet

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008

In the context of planning, managing and generating territorial knowledge, Geoprocessing plays a fundamental role in supporting strategic decision making through the treatment of georeferenced information, which is the object of interest in public and private institutions and organizations. The structure of databases provided by the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is configured as a cartographic information generator to support the various productive chains of the agricultural sector, leadi

Status: Completed     Start date: Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008

Riverside communities experience many deficiencies in electricity supply and basic sanitation. Regarding forest products management there is a dependency of açaí and limited use of other species. Thus, the project located at Ilha das Cinzas – Pará state, aims to: evaluate agroforestry systems with ‘pau mulato’ and other arboreal and agricultural species; generate actual technical indices to the management of native açaí grooves through its mapping and monitoring along with participating families ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015