Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA)
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High spatial resolution land use and land cover mapping of the Brazilian Legal Amazon in 2008 using Landsat-5/TM and MODIS data.
Understanding spatial patterns of land use and land cover is essential for studies addressing biodiversity, climate change and environmental modeling as well as for the design and monitoring of land use policies. The aim of this study was to create...
Agriculture without burning: restoration of altered areas with chop-and-mulch sequential agroforestry systems in the Amazon region
Traditional shifting cultivation in the Amazon region has caused negative environmental and social effects due to the use of fire. This type of agriculture has been criticized because it results in emission of large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere...
Governance: a challenge for international collaborative research and development: Some recent experiences from Brazil
International partnership to carry out collaborative research and development programs has been implemented for a long time. However, with globalization, the economic, social, political and cultural diversity of interacting partners reached levels where this variety of collaborators often has shown...
Knowledge generation in agricultural research
Over the past decades, Brazilian agriculture has played an important role in the international market, in response to growing global demand for products, services and food security. This achievement was in a large extent powered by the ability to generate...
The contribution of multiple use forest management to small farmers' Annual Incomes in the Eastern Amazon
Small-scale farmers in the Brazilian Amazon collectively hold tenure over more than 12 million ha of permanent forest reserves, as required by the Forest Code. The trade-off between forest conservation and other land uses entails opportunity costs for them and...
Evaluación de Innovaciones en el Manejo de los Agroecosistemas Agrícolas Campesinos como Subsidio al Proceso de Transición Agroecológica
El objetivo del estudio fue evaluar el grado de sostenibilidad de agroecosistemas campesinos, a través de la aplicación del enfoque sistémico que permita una comprensión integrada de los impactos técnicos, ambientales, económicos y sociales, como base para apoyar el proceso...
Adoption and use of precision agriculture in Brazil: perception of growers and service dealership
Precision agriculture (PA) is growing considerably in Brazil. However, there is a lack of information regarding to PA adoption and use in the country. This study sought to: (i) investigate the perception of growers and service dealership about PA technologies;...
Biodiversity measures in agriculture using DNA
How to measure biodiversity? One of the possibilities is to use DNA. The mention of DNA can hint evolution, but this question is much more complicated and beyond the proposition of a biodiversity measure. The reasons stated for use DNA...
Formes d'organisation de maraîchers organiques périurbains de São Paulo
Le développement de l'agriculture organique au Brésil prend des formes multiples. Au travers de leur expérience de l'AO, dans une communauté proche de trois métropoles, de petits maraîchers d'Ibiúna (São Paulo) créent des entités collectives et expérimentent de nouvelles pratiques...
Intellectual property & technology transfer practices of public Brazilian science and technology institutes: multiple case studies
The "Technological Innovation Act", promulgated in Brazil in 2004, represents the main legal framework implemented to promote technological innovation and to delineate a favorable scenario for scientific development in Brazil. It regulates specially the relationship between Scientific and Technological Institutions...
Agroambiente network: ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes in the Brazilian Amazon
Family farms are by far the most numerous component of the agricultural sector in the Brazilian Amazon. However socially vital for the development of the region, these small landholdings' agricultural and cattle ranching activities frequently overdraw and degrade natural resources,...
Forest use and agriculture in Ucayali, Peruvian Amazon: interactions among livelihood strategies, income and environmental outcomes
Findings from a survey on sources of income and land allocation outcomes of 578 households from 26 communities with diverse ethnic composition at distinct environmental settings in Ucayali (Peruvian Amazon) are used to contrast livelihood strategies featuring high forest and...
