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Renato de Aragão Ribeiro Rodrigues

Researcher at Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária

Publications -  37
Citations -  395

Renato de Aragão Ribeiro Rodrigues is an academic researcher from Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária. The author has contributed to research in topics: Agriculture & Amazon rainforest. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 34 publications receiving 208 citations. Previous affiliations of Renato de Aragão Ribeiro Rodrigues include Federal Fluminense University.

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Integrated crop-livestock systems: A sustainable land-use alternative for food production in the Brazilian Cerrado and Amazon

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the emergy synthesis approach, including innovative indices - emergy footprint and carbon-emergy output intensity - to assess and compare the environmental performance of an integrated crop-livestock system to a continuous crop and a continuous livestock system.
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Overcoming barriers to low carbon agriculture and forest restoration in Brazil: The Rural Sustentável project

TL;DR: The Rural Sustentavel project as discussed by the authors aims to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, reduce poverty, and promote sustainable rural development in the Brazilian Amazon and Atlantic Forest biomes: by restoring deforested and degraded land, and by facilitating and promoting the uptake of low carbon agricultural technologies.
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Assessing the economic viability of integrated crop−livestock systems in Mato Grosso, Brazil

TL;DR: In this paper, an economic analysis of integrated crop−livestock systems (iCL) in Mato Grosso, Brazil, the largest grain and beef producer in the country, which spans the ecologically diverse Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal biomes is presented.