- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Forest ecology and management
- Environmental and biological studies
- Rural Development and Agriculture
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Diverse Educational Innovations Studies
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
Universidade Federal do Paraná
2019-2020
Caívas are traditional silvopastoral systems that occur in the Araucaria Forest biome, Southern Brazil, which animal production and erva-mate extraction integrated. Participatory research was conducted caívas Northern Plateau, Santa Catarina State, to identify strategies intensify pasture use increase productivity. To better understand outcomes of these strategies, a sustainability assessment properties participated (improved caívas; IC) those did not (traditional TC). The Sustainability...
Abstract: The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect tree pruning on incidence and intensity damages caused by cattle 26-month-old Eucalyptus benthamii, in a silvopastoral system, municipality Pinhais, state Paraná, Brazil. experiment performed randomized complete block design, with two treatments - livestock forest pruned eucalyptus (WP), unpruned (UP) three replicates, characterizing six types five damage intensities. There were significant differences between WP UP for...
We proposed and evaluated a new approach (“Farm-school project”) to develop children's awareness about the role of people in agricultural production environmental quality. The materialization “Farm-school” project was performed by theoretical-practical 4-hour visit at an experimental farm. 240 Elementary school students were through concept maps drawings, before after visit. There conceptual evolution 41 82%, increased number categories per drawing 23% 37%. In maps, did not relate different...