This research project aims to study organic sugarcane cultivation areas of the Santo Antônio Sugar Mill in Sertãozinho, São Paulo, with emphasis on mapping and characterizing the current status of the vegetation within Permanent Preservation Areas (APPs, from the acronym in Portuguese), for the implementation of an agro-ecological project. The research project should promote an increment to the faunal biodiversity and production systems in such properties, helping the dispersion of seeds along t ...

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

This project aims to develop, evaluate and validate the environmental and social sustainability of technical-economic milk production systems based on Integrated Crop-Livestock-Forest Systems (ICLFS), with the use of the main plant species silage corn, cowpea, Piata grass, eucalyptus, chestnut; and Dutch x Gir crossbreeds.

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun May 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011

This project consists of the implementation and monitoring of an Integrated Crop-Livestock-Forest (ICLF) system on sustainable bases, with a focus on the assessment of sustainability indicators such as the indicators of improved physical and chemical soil quality; assessment of microbial biomass; and enzyme activity and microbial biodiversity. Hydrological variables and parameters will also be investigated.

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

The overall objective of this project was to strengthen Brazil’s green economy by harmonizing economic development and environmental conservation through sustainable agriculture that does not harm the environment, using soil and plant biomass management in organic production systems as a starting point. Unlike many agricultural production systems, organic agriculture offers a range of practices and techniques that potentially contribute to increase sustainability, including soil and plant biomas

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012

Low-carbon agriculture, a program introduced by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply in mid-2010, aims to combine the sustainable production of food, fibers and energy with the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the conservation of natural resources. To this end, the Brazilian government encourages the use of the following techniques: no-till farming, biological nitrogen fixation, integrated crop-livestock-forest systems, planting of commercial forests, recovery of de

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

The state of Pará is the largest northern producer of rice, corn and caupi beans, and the second largest soy producer. These species are cultivated in all the macro-regions of the state, where the Research and Technology Transfer Support Centers (NAPTs) of the Oriental Amazon are located. Based on this structure, this project aims to propose a strategy for the disclosure and transference of cultivars that are adequate to the region's producers' socio-economic and environmental conditions, throug ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007

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

This project has developed approaches of analysis, categorization and disclosure of information regarding agricultural development in centers with expressive production of soy and sugarcane, and with focus on their relationship between land use and occupation dynamics, agricultural practices and other environmental and socio-economic variables. In the agro-environmental sense, the analysis and mapping were focused in processes of agricultural development, highlighting the importance of the secon

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009