Relatório de Atividades 2024
O ano de 2024 nos deu alguns motivos para seguir acreditando que é possível reverter um cenário de colapso global. Vimos a redução do desmatamento continuar na Amazônia e o Cerrado começar a acompanhar essa tendência. Mas é preciso mais que isso. Passamos pelo ano...
O programa "Agricultura de Baixo Carbono” do Brasil: Barreiras para a sua implementação
Para entender as causas da lentidão de adesão ao Programa ABC, o IPAM aplicou mais de 40 entrevistas com diversos grupos do setor produtivo e do governo. Por meio destas entrevistas, foram identificadas barreiras para a implementação de práticas sustentáveis no âmbito do programa. Os resultados destas entrevistas estão apresentados neste documento.
Effect of leaf-cutting ant nests on plant growth in an oligotrophic Amazon rain forest
This study examined whether high nutrient concentrations associated with leaf-cutting ant nests influence plant growth and plant water relations in Amazon rain forests. Three nests of Atta cephalotes were selected along with 31 Amaioua guianensis and Protium sp....
Amazon deforestation and Brazil’s forest code: a crossroads for climate change
Considerably more is at stake in the ongoing battle in Brazil's Congress and government over the country's core forest protection legislation, the Forest Code, than President Dilma Rousseff's political fortunes or Brazil's international reputation. Full...
Deforestation around the world
The study-cases reported here may call attention for the velocity we are losing our forests in a planetary scale and for inestimable impact that will have in human life quality, in wild life, in water, soil and air and in the world economy. To keep it short, it won’t be a surprise if the cost to fix the losses would overcome the investments we have done to achieve the present unsustainable development.
Cation Leaching from Forest and Pasture Soils, Para, Brazil
This data set provides a time series of calcium, magnesium, and potassium extracted from soil samples from a laboratory column extraction study conducted in 2002. Soils used in the columns were originally collected in 1998 in Fazenda Vitoria, a cattle ranch 6 km...
REDD in Brazil: A focus on the Amazon
The publication presents two models of institutional frameworks for the development of a national policy for compensating reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in Brazil.