IABS Chair for the SDGs and Low-Carbon Agriculture. Since July 2019, the IABS University-Business Chair-ILPF-UPM network has been developing teaching, knowledge generation, dissemination, and technology transfer activities in the area of low-carbon agriculture and the Sustainable Development Goals. According to the FAO, 40% of the growth in food supply between now and 2030 will occur in Brazil. Playing this fundamental role in global food security without compromising the sustainability of the country’s natural resources is a challenge.
Therefore, the application of low-carbon agroforestry technologies is one of the keys to sustainable development, especially considering the trend toward rural depopulation and the growing demand for food from cities. Currently, the ILPF model is applied to 15 million hectares in Brazil, demonstrating that it is possible to mitigate emissions and adapt these territories to climate change.
IABS Chair for the SDGs and Low-Carbon Agriculture. Since July 2019, the IABS University-Business Chair-ILPF-UPM network has been developing teaching, knowledge generation, dissemination, and technology transfer activities in the area of low-carbon agriculture and the Sustainable Development Goals. According to the FAO, 40% of the growth in food supply between now and 2030 will occur in Brazil. Playing this fundamental role in global food security without compromising the sustainability of the country’s natural resources is a challenge. Therefore, the application of low-carbon agroforestry technologies is one of the keys to sustainable development, especially considering the trend toward rural depopulation and the growing demand for food from cities. Currently, the ILPF model is applied to 15 million hectares in Brazil, demonstrating that it is possible to mitigate emissions and adapt these territories to climate change.
IABS Chair for the SDGs and Low-Carbon Agriculture. Since July 2019, the IABS University-Business Chair-ILPF-UPM network has been developing teaching, knowledge generation, dissemination, and technology transfer activities in the area of low-carbon agriculture and the Sustainable Development Goals. According to the FAO, 40% of the growth in food supply between now and 2030 will occur in Brazil. Playing this fundamental role in global food security without compromising the sustainability of the country’s natural resources is a challenge. Therefore, the application of low-carbon agroforestry technologies is one of the keys to sustainable development, especially considering the trend toward rural depopulation and the growing demand for food from cities. Currently, the ILPF model is applied to 15 million hectares in Brazil, demonstrating that it is possible to mitigate emissions and adapt these territories to climate change.
Trajectory
The itdUPM has collaborated with the IABS since its creation in 2012. The first joint project was the evaluation of a pilot program for rainwater harvesting cisterns to supply rural schools in the state of Alagoas (the state with the lowest HDI in Brazil). The recommendations from this work were incorporated into the design of a federal government initiative to build more than 5,000 school cisterns. To disseminate the social technologies that were consolidating in Brazil’s semi-arid region, the IABS created the Xingó Center for Coexistence with the Semi-Arid Region in 2014. About twenty professors from our university have participated in this center, and the UPM is a member of its Scientific Council. Joint programs on social innovation, resilience, and the circular economy have been promoted around this center.
IABS is a partner of the UPM-UCM Interuniversity Master’s Degree in Strategies and Technologies for Development, which has hosted more than twenty students in its internship program. You can watch the opening ceremony of the second edition (2016-17) at this link, led by the director and president of IABS, Dr. Tadeu Assad.
Trajectory
The itdUPM has collaborated with the IABS since its creation in 2012. The first joint project was the evaluation of a pilot program for rainwater harvesting cisterns to supply rural schools in the state of Alagoas (the state with the lowest HDI in Brazil). The recommendations from this work were incorporated into the design of a federal government initiative to build more than 5,000 school cisterns. To disseminate the social technologies that were consolidating in Brazil’s semi-arid region, the IABS created the Xingó Center for Coexistence with the Semi-Arid Region in 2014. About twenty professors from our university have participated in this center, and the UPM is a member of its Scientific Council. Joint programs on social innovation, resilience, and the circular economy have been promoted around this center.
IABS is a partner of the UPM-UCM Interuniversity Master’s Degree in Strategies and Technologies for Development, which has hosted more than twenty students in its internship program. You can watch the opening ceremony of the second edition (2016-17) at this link, led by the director and president of IABS, Dr. Tadeu Assad.
Trajectory
The itdUPM has collaborated with the IABS since its creation in 2012. The first joint project was the evaluation of a pilot program for rainwater harvesting cisterns to supply rural schools in the state of Alagoas (the state with the lowest HDI in Brazil). The recommendations from this work were incorporated into the design of a federal government initiative to build more than 5,000 school cisterns. To disseminate the social technologies that were consolidating in Brazil’s semi-arid region, the IABS created the Xingó Center for Coexistence with the Semi-Arid Region in 2014. About twenty professors from our university have participated in this center, and the UPM is a member of its Scientific Council. Joint programs on social innovation, resilience, and the circular economy have been promoted around this center.
IABS is a partner of the UPM-UCM Interuniversity Master’s Degree in Strategies and Technologies for Development, which has hosted more than twenty students in its internship program. You can watch the opening ceremony of the second edition (2016-17) at this link, led by the director and president of IABS, Dr. Tadeu Assad.