CRPR Seminar - Alexandre de Azevedo Olival and Andrezza Spexoto: Strategies for strengthening family-based agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon

Strategies for strengthening family-based agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon

Wednesday 14th May 1045-1215, LT1 IAS Building* (*please note change from usual venue) or Via Teams.  Please contact CRPR@exeter.ac.uk for the link to Teams. 

Alexandre de Azevedo Olival and Andrezza Spexoto

In this activity, members of the Ouro Verde Institute, a non-governmental organisation that has been working for more than 20 years in the agricultural frontier region of the Brazilian Amazon, will present the conceptual bases, strategies, impacts and main challenges for strengthening family-based agriculture and the agroecological transition of production systems in this region. Special emphasis will be placed on strategies for building agroecological knowledge in a shared way with farmers and how to implement innovations in this context.

Affiliations: Alexandre and Andrezza founded the Instituto Ouro Verde (translation: Green Gold Institute) - an NGO working with small scale, family farmers to implement agroforestry and silvopastoral systems and carry out related research on environmental and climate impacts and adaptation. Alexandre de Azevedo Olival is a Professor at the Mato Grosso State University, Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Carolyn Petersen, based at CRPR, has collaborated with Alexandre and Andrezza (along with Toby Pennington, UoE Geography) since 2020, including on a Global Challenges Research Fund project on gender equality and food security.