FAPESP Supported
Research Highlights
Sustainable Agriculture Sustainable agricultural systems reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Scientists at the University of São Paulo present this conclusion based on a systematic review of the literature in a paper published in the Journal of Cleaner Production.
Public Health The total number of people with obesity worldwide has surpassed one billion
The number is expected to grow by 50% by the middle of next decade.
Research Supported by FAPESP
Search for:
Videos
Brazil dries up
Climate change gives rise to a region with an arid climate, previously non-existant in the country.
Supercomputers Capable of complex operations, machines enable to investigate matters such as the effects of deforestation on climate and Milky Way evolution.
Teacher blackout To improve its basic education, Brazil needs to renew undergraduate courses that prepare students to teach, as well as to create policies that make the teaching career attractive.
Field Diary – Negro River series Agência FAPESP followed the DEGy Negro River Expedition in search for I. caiana, an electric fish species whose only four specimen known to science were collected in 1968 at an inaccurately-described site.
Public Health Increasingly widespread use of antibiotics fosters the appearance of superbacteria defying science and health systems.
PublicationS
FAPESP Annual Activity Report - 2022
FAPESP allocated $ PPP 400.5 million to the funding of 19,692 research projects in 2021, for growth of
3.5% compared with 2020.
Read
