Embrapa Forestry

Description

Embrapa Forestry is a governmental research organization affiliated with the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture and is located in Colombo, Brazil. Its mission is to develop solutions to address research, development and innovation issues for forest sustainability. Therefore, it focuses on various aspects related to research in forestry, native forests and their products, agroforestry and agrosilvopastoral systems, as well as on forest biotechnology, biological pest control, environmental monitory, soil surveys, biodiversity and quality, and the recovery of degraded lands throughout Brazil. It hosts a Herbarium, the largest Crassiclitellata (earthworm) collection in Brazil, and an Entomological and Microbiological collection. Embrapa Forestry offers short-term training (courses, workshops, and other scientific and technical events), and numerous possibilities for in-service training for visiting researchers, trainees and fellows, as well as supervision of master and doctoral theses linked to several universities in the country.

Contacts

ADMINISTRATIVE_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Erich Schaitza
Telephone: 554136755610
email: cnpf.chgeral@embrapa.br

TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT
George Brown
Telephone: 5541988272601
email: george.brown@embrapa.br

POINT_OF_CONTACT
George Brown
Telephone: 554136755707
email: george.brown@embrapa.br

Embrapa Forestry
Estrada da Ribeira Km. 111, C.P. 319
Colombo
83411-000
PR
BR
email: cnpf.chpd@embrapa.br