The Basic Sanitation System for Rural Areas was initially composed of two technologies, the "Biodigester Septic Tank" and the "Embrapa Chlorinator", developed by the researcher Antônio Pereira de Novaes (deceased). Such technologies, due to their social and national reach, have provided great returns to Brazilian society. Embrapa Instrumentation has made efforts to disseminate the system in the entire domestic territory through public and private partnerships, however, it has observed the need t ...

Status: Completed     Start date: 01/09/2010

Riverside communities experience many deficiencies in electricity supply and basic sanitation. Regarding forest products management there is a dependency of açaí and limited use of other species. Thus, the project located at Ilha das Cinzas – Pará state, aims to: evaluate agroforestry systems with ‘pau mulato’ and other arboreal and agricultural species; generate actual technical indices to the management of native açaí grooves through its mapping and monitoring along with participating families ...

Status: Completed     Start date: 01/10/2015