Roberto Porro

ORCID: 0000-0003-4133-0068
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Research Areas
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Rural Development and Agriculture
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Agricultural and Food Sciences
  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices
  • Agriculture and Rural Development Research
  • Urban Development and Societal Issues
  • Environmental Sustainability and Education
  • International Relations in Latin America
  • Land Rights and Reforms
  • Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
  • Indigenous Health and Education
  • Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
  • Phytochemistry Medicinal Plant Applications
  • Magnetic Properties of Alloys
  • Social and Economic Solidarity
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Mining and Resource Management
  • Social Sciences and Policies
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Soil Management and Crop Yield
  • Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
  • African Botany and Ecology Studies
  • Sports and Physical Education Studies
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Amazon Research Foundation
2007-2024

Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
2014-2024

Universidade Federal do Pará
2015-2022

ORCID
2022

Amazon (United States)
2017-2021

Associação Paulista para o Desenvolvimento da Medicina
2015

World Agroforestry Centre
2012-2013

Hospital Clínico San Carlos
2007

Center for International Forestry Research
2000-2005

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
2000

What factors have been most important for protecting the two-thirds of tropical forests that remain standing? Qualitative like politics and governance are challenging to assess using existing statistical methods. To address this gap, we conducted a Delphi study with 36 experts identify contributed forest protection in Brazilian Amazon Indonesia. Our results unpacked complex dynamics affecting both regions highlighted importance political will, advocacy by civil society, intergovernmental...

10.31235/osf.io/bpgsm preprint EN 2025-01-22

What factors have been most important for protecting the two-thirds of tropical forests that remain standing? Qualitative like politics and governance are challenging to assess using existing statistical methods. To address this gap, we conducted a Delphi study with 36 experts identify contributed forest protection in Brazilian Amazon Indonesia. Our results unpacked complex dynamics affecting both regions highlighted importance political will, advocacy by civil society, intergovernmental...

10.31235/osf.io/bpgsm_v1 preprint EN 2025-01-22

Resumo A amêndoa de babaçu (Attalea speciosa Mart. ex Spreng) é um dos principais produtos da extração vegetal no Brasil. As florestas secundárias formadas por babaçuais localizam-se na transição entre Amazônia, Cerrado e Nordeste semiárido, área onde reside mais expressivos contingentes do campesinato país. Apesar disponibilidade dados sobre a produção comercial amêndoas, uma ampla gama derivados ignorada pelos levantamentos oficiais extrativa. Para suprir essa lacuna, este trabalho...

10.1590/1981.81222019000100011 article PT cc-by Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Ciências Humanas 2019-04-01

Findings from a survey on sources of income and land allocation outcomes 578 households 26 communities with diverse ethnic composition at distinct environmental settings in Ucayali (Peruvian Amazon) are used to contrast livelihood strategies featuring high forest agriculture dependency, examining whether agricultural intensification can be linked lower deforestation. A typology based their use profile was assess current cumulative cleared land. Recently areas by oriented perennials,...

10.3759/tropics.23.47 article EN Tropics 2014-01-01

SUMMARY The socioeconomic outcomes after five years of community forest management are examined in the Virola-Jatoba Sustainable Development Project (PDS) Anapu, Brazilian Amazon. In 2007 families were advised by public agencies to establish community-company partnerships for (FM) this settlement. Operations 3,000 ha extracted 50,000 m3 timber, generating gross revenues US$ 2 million local association. This paper examines collective action key stages land access and FM. impacts FM process on...

10.1505/146554815814668990 article EN The International Forestry Review 2015-03-01

The bureaucracy that regulates land tenure, agriculture and community-based forest management (CBFM) in the Brazilian Amazon aims at achieving an impartial administration process of practices complies with intention laws, regulations decrees safeguards rights citizens large particularly people a vulnerable position. Yet local power-holders' actual interpretation implementation is to extent opaque, arbitrary contingent upon subjective intentions, interests perspectives. These irregularities...

10.1080/08039410.2018.1427621 article EN cc-by Forum for Development Studies 2018-01-27

This paper examines productive strategies of traditional communities, which integrate agriculture and extractive activities in secondary forests babassu palm the Mearim Valley, Maranhão State. Underscoring adaptive nature agroextractivist practices, analysis contributes to demystify dichotomies associated with peasant mode production regard apparent resistance these communities livestock. The article interpretations, choices practices incorporation livestock by farmers. We highlight need...

10.1590/1809-4422asoc507v1812015en article EN cc-by-nc Ambiente & sociedade 2015-03-01
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