Banner image (left to right): Açaí palm transplants (Euterpe oleracea) prepped for planting in a household's açaí stand, a riverine household's daily production of açaí fruit waiting to be sold to a middleman during the harvest season, a producer in the estuarine region harvesting a cache of bananas, and intensive açaí palm agroforestry systems extending through the Amazon estuary-delta region. | Aerial photo courtesy of Eduardo Brondízio; other photos courtesy of Lucy Miller
About the project
The AGENTS project is a research consortium financed by the Belmont Forum and NORFACE, gathering senior researchers from six institutions: the University of Amsterdam, Stockholm University, the Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences, Indiana University, the University of Colorado, and the University of Campinas. The project will carry out its activities between 2019 and 2021, seeking to evaluate promising individual and collective transformations involving land-use practices in the Amazon basin, including conditions that promote or inhibit the reconciliation of environmental conservation and agricultural production.