Embrapa Integra-C

This strategy relies on robust planning for data acquisition and integration and for the development of scientific knowledge to provide Brazil with suitable recognition for efforts toward sustainability and quality in domestic agricultural production.

All of that effort aims to foster international understanding of the peculiarities of tropical production systems, soil characteristics and our natural environments. It is an agenda with international repercussions and interest, which can be strategic for other tropical countries.

For the success of the initiative, there is a plan with structuring actions in 07 axes, with solutions for different production systems:

• Development of a virtual dashbord (database, functionalities and metrics) on carbon balance in agricultural systems
• Survey and enhancement of research infrastructure for the development of protocols and representations of the carbon balance in the main domestic agricultural systems
• Survey and enhancement of infrastructure to improve alternative techniques for field data collection
• Survey and enhancement of infrastructure for carbon balance metrics and models that are adapted to Brazilian conditions
• Survey and enhancement of infrastructure for risk monitoring, adaptation and sustainability of local production systems
• Development of infrastructure monitoring and maintenance plan in the medium and long term
• Establishment of cooperation and technology transfer networks

Some activities have already started, such as mapping across Embrapa's research network to obtain information on infrastructure, data, experiments, and monitoring areas.