The agribusiness production chains represent 26.4% of Brazil’s GDP, 36% of exports and 39% of the jobs generated in the internal market. The generation of geospatial information about the Brazilian agriculture supports decisions and public policies at different levels and scales. The System for Observation and Monitoring of Agriculture in Brazil (SOMABRASIL) aims to organize and integrate census data and information generated from satellite images into a single database for the whole country, fa

Status: Completed     Start date: 01/10/2013

Agricultural Sanitary problems don't obey frontier lines, especially when there is land continuity as is the case of the borderland strip between Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru. Embrapa Satellite Monitoring and the Department of Agricultural Defense of the Ministry of Agriculture have developed a system to help agricultural defense along the borderland strip, with the main goal to contribute to the eradication of the foot and mouth disease. Precise and up-to-date knowledge on spatial distrib

Status: Completed     Start date: 01/08/2009

This project intends to offer technical and scientific support to Secretariat for Family Farms and Cooperatives (Secretaria de Agricultura Familiar e de Cooperativismo, SAF) of the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (Mapa). In the project are foreseen analyses of the Pronaf Release Statement (Declaração de Aptidão ao Pronaf, DAP) database and other correlated databases which are to be made available over the span of the cooperation. The DAP is a legal instrument to attest th ...

Status: Completed     Start date: 01/05/2019