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SUSTAINABLE AMAZON LAND USE SYSTEMS TO REDUCE GLOBAL AND LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS

SUSTAINABLE AMAZON LAND USE SYSTEMS TO REDUCE GLOBAL AND LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS. The Amazon Initiative Consortium A n International Cooperation Challenge. The Amazon Initiative Consortium

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SUSTAINABLE AMAZON LAND USE SYSTEMS TO REDUCE GLOBAL AND LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS

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  1. SUSTAINABLE AMAZON LAND USE SYSTEMS TO REDUCE GLOBAL AND LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS The Amazon Initiative Consortium An International Cooperation Challenge

  2. The Amazon Initiative Consortium A collaborative research program formed by a group of National Research Centers in association with CGIAR centers, and aggregating Advanced Research Institutions and Non-Governamental Organizations, with the purpose of reducing the global and local environmental threats through the development of sustainable land use systems in the Amazon.

  3. CGIAR Centers: CIAT, ICRAF, CIFOR, IPGRI National Research Institutions: e.g. Brazil (Embrapa), Peru (INIA), Colômbia (CORPOICA), IVIC (Venezuela)

  4. EMBRAPA , , EMBRAPA EMBRAPA Boa Vista AMAPÁ RORAIMA Macapá Amazônia Oriental R I O N Belém E G R O S A N O Z A M A O I R Manaus R I S O N S I O T L I N M A Õ E C S O T O I R Ú S G Ó J N A AMAZONAS I P X A A R T I O E O I D I R A PARÁ R M O I R A I A U G A R UNITINS A O Porto I R ACRE Velho TOCANTINS Rio Branco Palmas RONDÔNIA MATO GROSSO EMBRAPA Cuiabá EMPA EMBRAPA EMBRAPA RESEARCH CENTERS IN THEAMAZON 280 Researchers

  5. CIPEA - Embrapa Amazon Research Committee Promoting regional research network • Identify regional research opportunities • Establish regional competences • Promote integration/complementary • Development of regional data bank on • agricultural research and development

  6. Agroecópole 6 Instiuições alinhadas ao longo da Avenida Tancredo Neves (“Avenida da Ciência”) UFRA

  7. Major Challenges • Reduce Amazon risk due to global climate change • Minimize impact of land use (LU) and climate change on human health • Minimize impact of LU on Amazon biodiversity • Economic globalization opportunities for sustainable development

  8. The Overall Goal Reduce global and local environmental threats through the development of sustainable land use (LU) systems

  9. Specific Goals • Intensify LU to minimize enrivonmental impacts and improve small holder income • Reduce negative effects of LU on human health • Conserve and use plant genetic resources • Rehabilitate degraded pastures • Reduce C emission and economic losses due to fire management • Minimize negative impacts of large-scale commercial agriculture • Increase national R&D institutional capacity

  10. Priority Themes - Policy - Climate Change - Genetic Resources - Forestry - Land Use and Human Health - Pasture Rehabilitation - Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn

  11. Integration with other initiatives South-American component of ASB, focused in the Amazon region- to be discussed during the steering committee meeting Challenge Programs (Rainforest, Climatic Change) Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia, LBA (Human dimension perspective, joint proposals)

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