FONTAGRO and EMBRAPA have joined forces to offer a series of webinars on agriculture and climate change. These sessions explore new strategies for efficiently allocating crops based on climate data and present innovative tools developed by EMBRAPA to monitor and predict climate impacts on agriculture in Brazil.
The third webinar in this series, titled “Advances in monitoring and predicting climate risk in agriculture in Brazil,” focused on several key topics for the sector. During the event, participants discussed issues such as crop management levels for agricultural climate risk assessment, monitoring agrometeorological conditions for crop growth over large areas, advancements in crop modeling for climate zoning applications, and monitoring crop development using satellite image time series.
The webinar recording is available at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/live/hrbG2s2dvVo?si=eHhVeBCF3hELCCgC
This type of initiative highlights the commitment of FONTAGRO and EMBRAPA to promoting research and the adoption of sustainable practices in agriculture, especially in a climate change context that demands adaptation and resilience from producers.
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About FONTAGRO
FONTAGRO was created 1998 with the purpose of promoting the increase of the competitiveness of the agri-food sector, ensuring the sustainable management of natural resources and the reduction of poverty in the region. The objective of FONTAGRO is to establish itself as a sustainable financing mechanism for the development of agricultural technology and innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean and Spain, and to establish a forum for the discussion of priority topics of technological innovation. The member countries are: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Spain, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela. In the last 21 years 167 regional agricultural innovation platforms have been co-financed for an amount of US $ 124 million, which has reached 452 institutions and 33 countries worldwide.