Climate benefits of Amazon secondary forests—recent advances and research needs
A quarter of the deforested Amazon has regrown as secondary tropical forest and yet the climatic importance of these complex regenerating landscapes is only beginning to be recognised. Advances in satellite remote-sensing have transformed our ability to detect and...
Financiando sistemas com baixas emissões de carbono para a agricultura familiar de MT
O documento apresenta de forma clara as opções de financiamento voltadas para o público da agricultura familiar que fomentem a adoção das práticas agrícolas de baixa emissão de gases de efeito estufa.
De conceito e compromissos à ação – Implementando a abordagem jurisdicional para produção sustentável em Mato Grosso e Pará
Na última década, a taxa de desmatamento na Amazônia brasileira reduziu cerca de 65%, passando de 19.625 km2 (média de 1996 a 2005) para cerca de 6.947 km2 em 2017, o que equivale a uma redução de 4,88 Gt/CO2 e das emissões de gases de efeito estufa. Esse resultado...
The intrinsic effects of environment and space on the composition of woody plant species vary between Brazilian savannas growing on distinct types of substrate
The relationship between the floristic composition of communities and the underlying environmental and spatial determinants is still the subject of intense debate, mainly because only recently has geographical distance been cited as an important driver of plant...
Relatório – Seminário Nacional do Cerrado
Em 2017, o IPAM promoveu um encontro em Brasília para discutir como conciliar produção agropecuária e conservação da sociobiodiversidade no Cerrado. O Cerrado é um bioma de fundamental importância ambiental, econômica e social para o Brasil.O bioma abriga uma...
EXTRACTIVE RESERVES IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON THIRTY YEARS AFTER CHICO MENDES: SOCIAL MOVEMENT ACHIEVEMENTS, TERRITORIAL EXPANSION AND CONTINUING STRUGGLES
The Brazilian Amazon contains the largest remaining contiguous forest in the tropics, but also faces strong development pressures and one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world. In the 30 years since the murder of the rubber tapper leader Chico Mendes...
Deep soils modify environmental consequences of increased nitrogen fertilizer use in intensifying Amazon agriculture
Intensively-managed croplands and nitrogen (N) fertilizer use are expanding rapidly in tropical regions. We quantified fertilizer responses of maize yield, N2O emissions, and N leaching in an Amazon soybeanmaize double-cropping system on deep, highly-weathered soils in Mato Grosso, Brazil.