Young people learn how to manage and run an agroforestry system.

by Nikole Cantoara | 24/09/2025 | News

By Nikole Cantoara* Reconciling production, income generation and environmental conservation is one of the main pillars for strengthening family farming and combating deforestation and climate change. With this in mind, IPAM (Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da...

Deforestation accounts for 74% of rainfall reduction in the Legal Amazon

by Nikole Cantoara | 22/09/2025 | Articles, News

Anna Júlia Lopes* Deforestation is the main factor responsible for the reduction in rainfall in the Legal Amazon over recent decades. A study published in the journal Nature Communications shows that forest clearing accounts for 74% of the drop in precipitation during...

IPAM plants more than one million trees in the Amazon and Cerrado

by Nikole Cantoara | 22/09/2025 | News

By Nikole Cantoara* To promote conservation and contribute to a climate change mitigation agenda, IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) has planted 1,249,038 trees since 2005 in the Amazon and Cerrado regions. This number, shaped by a set of initiatives,...

Maranhão moves forward with strategic plan for environmental conservation

by Nikole Cantoara | 14/08/2025 | News

Last Tuesday (12), a workshop coordinated by SEMA (Maranhão’s Environment Secretariat), with technical support from IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute), discussed the PPCDQ (Action Plans for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation and Burning in...

Training promotes the development of sustainable livestock farming in Pará

by Nikole Cantoara | 30/07/2025 | News

*By Nikole Cantoara With the aim of boosting the sustainable development of livestock farming in Pará, a training course was held on July 23-24 in Belém for state and regional leaders of FETAGRI (Federation of Rural Workers, Farmers and Family Farmers). Through the...