SHADES OF GREEN

SHADES OF GREEN gives the public a firsthand look at the broad, revealing panorama of the Brazilian agricultural and livestock sector present-day sustainability, authored by the EMBRAPA researcher and Agricultural Engineer with a PhD. in Ecology, Evaristo de Miranda.
The book sheds new light on the sector by presenting a little known reality – the native vegetation and biodiversity preservation on millions of rural properties, the renewable agro-energy production strength, and the many sustainable practices in use throughout the country, such as the land cultivation without plowing; tropical intensification; agricultural and forestry integrations; advances in the biological agents use; green livestock raising; and the large scale agricultural and agroindustrial waste recycling.