Transdisciplinary Training program

Members of the Brazil Natural Resources Governance Initiative (BNRGI) were selected to participate in a ​in a training program hosted by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) . The BNRGI project is focused on climate-resilient agroforestry in the Brazilian Amazon and aims to pilot participatory action-research in partnership with Afro-descendant quilombola communities in Marajó archipelago in the Amazon estuary. 

​The project is co-constructed with the grassroots organization Campinas/Vila União Center for Quilombola Action and Resistance (NARQ). The team is led by Prof. Monique Medeiros of the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), and includes Luciane Lopes and Glenda Leão of NARQ, Prof. Daniel Braga (UFPA), and Profs. Don Nelson and Gregory Thaler (University of Georgia).

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