Many studies reveal the contributions of plant breeding and agronomy to farm productivity and their role in reshaping global diets. However, historical accounts also implicate these sciences in the creation of new problems, from novel disease vulnerabilities propagated through industrial monocrops to the negative ecological and public health consequences of crops dependent on chemical inputs and industrialized food systems more generally.
   Increasingly, historical analyses also highlight the expertise variously usurped, overlooked, abandoned, or suppressed in the pursuit of “modern” agricultural science. Experiment stations and “improved” plants were instruments of colonialism, means of controlling lands and lives of peoples typically labeled as “primitive” and... Ver mais

   Many studies reveal the contributions of plant breeding and agronomy to farm productivity and their role in reshaping global diets. However, historical accounts also implicate these sciences in the creation of new problems, from novel disease vulnerabilities propagated through industrial monocrops to the negative ecological and public health consequences of crops dependent on chemical inputs and industrialized food systems more generally.
   Increasingly, historical analyses also highlight the expertise variously usurped, overlooked, abandoned, or suppressed in the pursuit of “modern” agricultural science. Experiment stations and “improved” plants were instruments of colonialism, means of controlling lands and lives of peoples typically labeled as “primitive” and... Ver mais

   Many studies reveal the contributions of plant breeding and agronomy to farm productivity and their role in reshaping global diets. However, historical accounts also implicate these sciences in the creation of new problems, from novel disease vulnerabilities propagated through industrial monocrops to the negative ecological and public health consequences of crops dependent on chemical inputs and industrialized food systems more generally.
   Increasingly, historical analyses also highlight the expertise variously usurped, overlooked, abandoned, or suppressed in the pursuit of “modern” agricultural science. Experiment stations and “improved” plants were instruments of colonialism, means of controlling lands and lives of peoples typically labeled as “primitive” and... Ver mais

   Many studies reveal the contributions of plant breeding and agronomy to farm productivity and their role in reshaping global diets. However, historical accounts also implicate these sciences in the creation of new problems, from novel disease vulnerabilities propagated through industrial monocrops to the negative ecological and public health consequences of crops dependent on chemical inputs and industrialized food systems more generally.
   Increasingly, historical analyses also highlight the expertise variously usurped, overlooked, abandoned, or suppressed in the pursuit of “modern” agricultural science. Experiment stations and “improved” plants were instruments of colonialism, means of controlling lands and lives of peoples typically labeled as “primitive” and... Ver mais

 In the 20th century, we made tremendous advances in discovering fundamental principles in different scientific disciplines that created major breakthroughs in management and technology for agricultural systems, mostly by empirical means. However, as we enter the 21st century, agricultural research has more difficult and complex problems to solve.
   The environmental consciousness of the general public is requiring us to modify farm management to protect water, air, and soil quality, while staying economically profitable. At the same time, market-based global competition in agricultural products is challenging economic viability of the traditional agricultural systems, and requires the development of new and dynamic production systems. Fortunately, the new electr... Ver mais

 In the 20th century, we made tremendous advances in discovering fundamental principles in different scientific disciplines that created major breakthroughs in management and technology for agricultural systems, mostly by empirical means. However, as we enter the 21st century, agricultural research has more difficult and complex problems to solve.
   The environmental consciousness of the general public is requiring us to modify farm management to protect water, air, and soil quality, while staying economically profitable. At the same time, market-based global competition in agricultural products is challenging economic viability of the traditional agricultural systems, and requires the development of new and dynamic production systems. Fortunately, the new electr... Ver mais

Julgue o item seguinte, relativos às tendências recentes de concepção da pesquisa. 

O paradigma ecológico considera o planeta Terra como um cosmos com recursos naturais ilimitados porém delicados; e o feminismo considera a categoria de gênero na análise dos sistemas sociais e culturais.  

Julgue o item subsequente, considerando o Sistema Nacional de Pesquisa Agropecuária (SNPA).

Entre os requisitos contemporâneos necessários à elaboração de justificativas nas pesquisas agropecuárias, residem a atualidade do tema, a inovação, o interesse na resolução de problemas, a relevância econômica e social e a contribuição ao desenvolvimento científico

Considerando que a durabilidade (Y) de certo produto depende da temperatura (T) e da umidade (U) do local de armazenamento, um pesquisador obteve as estimativas de mínimos quadrados ordinários para os coeficientes de um modelo de regressão linear múltipla na forma

Y = β0 + β0T + β2U + ∈

no qual β0, β0, e β2 representam os coeficientes do modelo e ∈ denota o erro aleatório, que segue distribuição normal com média zero e desvio padrão σ. As tabelas a seguir mostram os resultados obtidos pelo pesquisador. 

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Com base no Código de Conduta, Ética e Integridade da Embrapa e no Estatuto da Embrapa, julgue o item subsequente. 

A fim de produzir conhecimentos e tecnologia para o desenvolvimento agropecuário do país, a Embrapa tem por objeto social, entre outros, a execução de atividades de pesquisa, desenvolvimento e inovação que se limitam às áreas do conhecimento relativas às ciências agrárias e às ciências biológicas.