MOUNTAIN
RESEARCH
CENTER

Polytechnic Institute
of Bragança

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CIMO

CIMO - Mountain Research Center. See video HERE

FROM NATURE TO PRODUCTS, TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY.

Jaime Camilo Maldonado Pires

Coordinator Professor
Group: Socio-Ecological Systems
Phone: 273303277
E-mail: jaime@ipb.pt
ORCID: 0000-0002-7839-3970
Scopus Author ID: 7102586181

Career

  • Since 1998: Coordinator Professor, Escola Superior Agrária, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal
  • 1993 - 1998: Auxiliary Professor, Escola Superior Agrária, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal
  • 1986 - 1993: Assistant Professor, Escola Superior Agrária, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal
  • 1981 - 1986: Senior Technician at the Regional Directorate of Agriculture
  • 1980 - 1981: Secondary School Teacher

Roles

  • 2009 - 2012: Member of the Internal Control Committee of Euromontana
  • 2009 - 2013: Member of the Technical-Scientific Council of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança
  • 2008 - 2017: Coordinator of the Mountain Research Centre (CIMO)
  • 2007 - 2010: Head of Scientific Committee of the Master in Agroecology of the School of Agriculture
  • 2006 - 2008: Vice-Coordinator and Executive Director of the Mountain Research Centre (CIMO)
  • 1999 - 2005: Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the School of Agriculture (ESA)
  • 1998 - 1999: Head of the department, Agricultural and Rural Engineering of the School of Agriculture
  • 1998 - 1999: Program director of the Higher Specialized Studies in Sustainable Agriculture of the School of Agriculture
  • 1996 - 1999: Member of the Representative Assembly of the School of Agriculture
  • Since 1993: Member of the Scientific and Technical-Scientific Councils of the School of Agriculture
  • 1983 - 1986: Member of the National Technical Council of the Directorate-General for the Protection of Agricultural Production
  • 1981 - 1986: Head of research and dissemination in the field of forages and pastures of the Regional Directorate of Agriculture of Trás-os-Montes

Interests

  • Highland and Mediterranean rainfed pastures: ecology, floristic composition, biomass production, chemical composition and nutritive value, management and sustainability
  • Agricultural systems: characterization, workflow, energy efficiency and sustainability

Projects:

LIFE MARONESA - Market Awareness and Opportunity Raising for Needed Extensification and Soil-friendly Agriculture
Funding body: LIFE
Reference: LIFE19 GIC/PT/001285
Principal Investigator:Carlos Francisco Gonçalves Aguiar
Start: 2020-10-01
End: 2025-09-30
ECOLAMB - Holistic Production to Reduce the Ecological Footprint of Meat
Funding body: FCT
Reference: SusAn/002/2016
Principal Investigator:Vasco Augusto Pilão Cadavez
Start: 2017-09-04
End: 2020-08-31
DOUROZONE - Ozone risk for Douro/s vineyard in present and future climates
Funding body: PORTUGAL 2020
Reference: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016778
Principal Investigator:António Castro Ribeiro
Start: 2016-07-01
End: 2018-06-30
- Cover cropping: the decisive strategy fot the sustainable management of the rainfed olive orchards
Funding body: PTDC - Projectos em todos os domínios científicos
Reference: PTDC/AGR-AAM/098326/2008
Principal Investigator:Manuel Ângelo Rosa Rodrigues
Start: 2010-03-01
End: 2013-08-31
BioPast - Uma Abordagem Integrada às Pastagens Permanentes Biodiversas Ricas em Leguminosas
Funding body: PTDC - Projectos em todos os domínios científicos
Reference:
Principal Investigator:Carlos Francisco Gonçalves Aguiar
Start: 2007-08-01
End: 2011-01-31
BIOFEP - Comparaison des modes d'organisation, de production et commercialisation des productions animales biologiques en France
Funding body: INTERREG III B - ESPAÇO SUDEO
Reference: BIOFEP
Principal Investigator:Jaime Camilo Maldonado Pires
Start: 2003-06-01
End: 2005-06-30
- Produção Biológica de bovinos de carne nos sistemas agro-pecuários de montanha em Trás-os- Montes
Funding body: AGRO
Reference: AGRO, projecto nº 227
Principal Investigator:Luis Avelino Guimarães Dias
Start: 2001-11-01
End: 2005-06-30

Total results: 6
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Gonzales-Barron U.,Popova T.,Bermúdez Piedra R.,Tolsdorf A.,Geß A.,Pires J.,Domínguez R.,Chiesa F.,Brugiapaglia A.,Viola I.,Battaglini L.M.,Baratta M.,Lorenzo J.M.,Cadavez V.A.P.
Fatty acid composition of lamb meat from Italian and German local breeds
Small Ruminant Research, 200, , 2021

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Gonzales-Barron U.,Santos-Rodrigues G.,Piedra R.B.,Coelho-Fernandes S.,Osoro K.,Celaya R.,Maurício R.S.,Pires J.,Tolsdorf A.,Geß A.,Chiesa F.,Pateiro M.,Brugiapaglia A.,Bodas R.,Baratta M.,Lorenzo J.M.,Cadavez V.A.P.
Quality attributes of lamb meat from European breeds: Effects of intrinsic properties and storage
Small Ruminant Research, 198, , 2021

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Rodrigues M.Â.,Ferreira I.Q.,Freitas S.L.,Pires J.M.,Arrobas M.P.
Self-reseeding annual legumes for cover cropping in rainfed managed olive orchards
Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 13, 1-13, 2015

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Rodrigues M.A.,Gomes V.,Dias L.G.,Pires J.,Aguiar C.,Arrobas M.
Evaluation of soil nitrogen availability by growing tufts of nitrophilic species in an intensively grazed biodiverse legume-rich pasture
Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 8, 1058-1067, 2010

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Dias L.G.,Correia D.M.,Sá-Morais J.,Sousa F.,Pires J.M.,Peres A.M.
Raw bovine meat fatty acids profile as an origin discriminator
Food Chemistry, 109, 840-847, 2008

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Rodrigues M.A.,Pereira A.,Cabanas J.E.,Dias L.,Pires J.,Arrobas M.
Crops use-efficiency of nitrogen from manures permitted in organic farming
European Journal of Agronomy, 25, 328-335, 2006