A team of six US and Brazilian researchers and community members is participating during July and August 2024 in a training program hosted by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) in partnership with the Santa Catarina State Research Foundation (FAPESC).
The program, “Tropical Forests in the Americas: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Changing Environments,” brings together 20 transdisciplinary teams from across the Americas for 30 hours of virtual training to support problem-driven and solution-oriented integrative tropical forest research. Teams are working on topics including deforestation, sustainable development, ecosystem function, climate change, and environmental justice.
The BNRGI project is focused on climate-resilient agroforestry in the Brazilian Amazon and aims to pilot participatory action-research in partnership with Afro-descendant quilombola communities in Marajó archipelago in the Amazon estuary.
Research team from INEAF/UFPA in a quilombola school in Pau Furado, Salvaterra, Pará.
The project is co-constructed with the grassroots organization Campinas/Vila União Center for Quilombola Action and Resistance (NARQ). The team is led by Prof. Monique Medeiros of the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), and includes Luciane Lopes and Glenda Leão of NARQ, Prof. Daniel Braga (UFPA), and Profs. Don Nelson and Gregory Thaler (University of Georgia).