Antonio Nivaldo Hespanhol

• Abstract

  The visiting professor will teach "Public Politics, Rural Space and Territorial Ordinance", with 45 hours (three credits) to the students in the Postgraduate Program in Geography, between October 26 and November 06, 2009; and will participate in a meeting with the members of the GEDRA - Grupo de Estudos Dinâmica Regional e Agropecuária (Study Group on the Regional and Agricultural/Cattle …

  Public politics, agricultural space and territorial order, AV.EXT

• Abstract

  The frontiers are boundarys, this means, integration areas where the processes manifest itself by such a discontinued objective logic of landscape, or still, by a permeabiliality too accentuated between the territory fragment submitted to territorials definitions or redefinitions more, or, less, independents. This Project has how biggest objective studying differents ways of integration o…

  Sociambiental dynamics, local development and sustentability in São Paulo-Paraná-Matogrosso do Sul divisory boundary, AP.TEM

• Abstract

  Urban and periurban agriculture (UPA) is a modality of agricultural production carried out in small areas within cities (intraurban space) or in its surroundings (periurban space) and constitutes one of the alternatives for the reduction of hunger and food insecurity. UPA may be practiced in a variety of forms and production systems, from small-scale production intended only for own consu…

  Urban and periurban agriculture in Regente Feijó - SP, BP.MS

• Abstract

  The warehouse and general warehouses Company of São Paulo (CEAGESP) was established in 1969, with the main function of storing grains and commercializing horticultural products. CEAGESP owns the largest public warehouse network in the state of São Paulo and a complex of 13 wholesalers, being a mixed economy company linked to the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and supply (MAPA). The ma…

  The role of Ceagesp in the commercialization of horticultural products in the west of the State of São Paulo, BP.MS

• Abstract

  Urban agriculture (AU) is integrated to the urban ecosystem, has a multifunctional character and provides good environmental, social and economic results. Currently AU is gaining prominence in the world and Brazilian scenario, being important to understand the existing initiatives and demands so that public policies can be implemented. The main objective of the research is to analyze the …

  The role and characteristics of urban agriculture in Porto Ferreira - SP, BP.MS

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• Abstract

  Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) is a type of agricultural production carried out in small areas within cities (intra-urban space) or in its surroundings (peri-urban space) and it constitutes one of the alternatives to reduce hunger and food insecurity. It can be practiced in a variety of forms and production systems, from small-scale production intended only for own consumption to …

  Urban and peri-urban agriculture in Centre Wellington, Ontario, Canada, BE.EP.MS

• Abstract

  The research internship to be carried out in the United States has the goal of analyzing the expansion of agrofuel production in the Midwest, specially the transformations caused by the enlargement of ethanol plants in Western Kansas upon agriculture, the rural space and the implications of this process on family farmers. Kansas is not one of the main producers of ethanol in the U.S., bu…

  The expansion of agrofuels in Midwestern United States and the effects of ethanol plants installation in Western Kansas, BE.EP.DR

• Abstract

  The research aims to study the transition processes towards more ecologically-oriented farming in France, implemented in the country since the late 1950s. The strategies of learning and exchange of new technology, knowledge and experience, carried by the construction of dense and diverse networks shaped by the collective of different actors will be studied, and the effects of these action…

  Transition processes towards more ecologically-oriented farming in France: technological progress and social and environmental issues in the context of sustainable development, BE.EP.DR

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