SHADES OF GREEN

'Shades of green' gives the public a firsthand look at the broad, revealing panorama of the Brazilian agricultural and livestock sector presente-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 agentes use; green livestock raising; and the large scale agricultural and agro-industrial waste recycling.