In 2023, the University of Georgia’s Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research Pre-Seed Program is supporting a new faculty team focused on adaptive smallholder agriculture in a changing climate. The team will develop research opportunities to support the resilience, sustainability, and livelihood success of small-scale agriculturalists in the Global South, with an initial geographical focus on the Brazilian Amazon and the drylands of India.
In Brazil, the team will build on BNRGI collaborations with the Amazonian Institute of Family Agricultures (INEAF) at the Federal University of Pará. Team members working on new research collaborations in Brazil include Emily Bell (Public Administration), Daniel Markewitz (Forestry), JP Schmidt (Ecology), Jennifer Jo Thompson (Crop & Soil Sciences), Giovanni Dazzo (Education), and BNRGI co-directors Gregory Thaler (International Affairs) and Don Nelson (Anthropology).
Smallholder agroforestry nursery in São Félix do Xingu, Pará (photo: Gregory Thaler)