Multifunctional landscapes in extensive agroecosystems

The project is expected to have positive economic, environmental, and social impacts by contributing to national development agendas. It will lead to improvements in production, value added to derived products, and producers' incomes. The project aims to generate public policies that incentivize and bring transparency to market dynamics, as well as private agreements that expand production capacities. By developing models and conducting fieldwork, the project will gather information on practices that enhance production yields, optimize agricultural processes, and reduce environmental costs.

Emphasis will be placed on capacity building, technical assistance to producers, and training of human resources in academia and production. The results will be communicated during and after the project.

In terms of the business plan, the project will produce technical notes with yield maps, spatially explicit models, agricultural databases, scientific articles, workshop reports, communication material, work methodologies, and results reports. The project aims to make these tools available to increase farm profitability by reducing management costs and diversifying production. The business model is geared towards improving the competitiveness of producers and facilitating entry opportunities in national and international markets. These mechanisms will benefit producers who want to adopt more sustainable management practices, directly benefiting the agricultural sector and indirectly benefiting consumers, who will access more varied and higher quality food.

The business plan does not include generating income from producers or adopters, as the objective is to expand the implementation scope as much as possible. Alternative funding sources will be sought to continue activities beyond the project period. The model will rely on physical resources (infrastructure of participating institutions and collaborating producer groups), human resources (development of training and technical training grants), and financial resources (subsidies from various research projects).