The SERVIR-Amazônia, joint development initiative of Nasa and USAID, and led by the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), launches a study on social inclusion involving indigenous communities in six countries, including Brazil. More information here.
 
ECAM and Humana have launched a series of studies on the Sustainable Territories. The objetive to continue to improve the model and integrating social investment. Read here in Portuguese.

The online community Agrilinks, that joints professionals working in the food security and agricultural development field has published an article from USAID/Brazil director of Environment, Anna Toness, written in collaboration with Wendy Francesconi, CIAT’s Theme Leader of Ecosystem Services and Environmental Impact;  and Karis Tenneson, from the environmental think-tank Spacial Informatics Group (SIG),  partner of the SERVIR-Amazônia hub created with the aim to improve environmental decision making in the Amazon. In the article, they introduce the co-developed  geospatial tool Terrabio that combines in-situ biodiversity data with maps of habitat conditions to assess the effectiveness of economic development activities in supporting biodiversity conservation in the Brazilian Amazon. TerraBio will analyse the Partnership Platform for the Amazon (PPA) projects to demonstrate how investments can lift local economies and maintain forest landscapes and their biodiversity and to what extent.  To learn more about Terrabio and its co-design read the article here.