Bolsa Verde

English translation: Bolsa Verde Program

16:17 Nov 7, 2012
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Environment & Ecology / Ecology
Portuguese term or phrase: Bolsa Verde
O Bolsa Verde, programa que premia extrativistas e agricultores familiares pobres pelo cuidado com a floresta,
Mike Davison
Brazil
Local time: 04:26
English translation:Bolsa Verde Program
Explanation:
Este é um programa oficial, lançado pelo governo brasileiro; por isso, deve ser mantido em português. Fazendo uma busca em inglês, encontrei Bolsa Verde program e, algumas vezes, com versão inglês entre parênteses (Green Grant).
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Luciana Alves
Brazil
Local time: 04:26
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Thanks s lot,
Mike
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5 +1Bolsa Verde Program
Luciana Alves
3 +1Green (eco-friendly) Grant/program
Verginia Ophof
4Eco-purse / eco funding / Green purse strings
Douglas Bissell
3Bolsa Verde, a green conditional cash transfer program that...
Beatriz Souza
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Marlene Curtis

  

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Green (eco-friendly) Grant/program


Explanation:
environmentally friendly, environmentally conscious


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Verginia Ophof
Belize
Local time: 01:26
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 16

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agree  Marlene Curtis
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Bolsa Verde Program


Explanation:
Este é um programa oficial, lançado pelo governo brasileiro; por isso, deve ser mantido em português. Fazendo uma busca em inglês, encontrei Bolsa Verde program e, algumas vezes, com versão inglês entre parênteses (Green Grant).

Luciana Alves
Brazil
Local time: 04:26
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks s lot,
Mike

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agree  Verginia Ophof
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Eco-purse / eco funding / Green purse strings


Explanation:
We are not discussing the meaning, just what would sound good in English

Douglas Bissell
Portugal
Local time: 08:26
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
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Bolsa Verde, a green conditional cash transfer program that...


Explanation:

Cost-Effective Conservation
Submitted by Rachel Kyte on Wed, 10/17/2012 - 08:40

(...) The program is improving the livelihoods of people in the Amazon region by strengthening the value chains of forest-based products and enabling improved coexistence between small family farms and larger-scale agriculture. Poor families inside the protected areas who adopt environmental conservation actions also benefit through a green conditional cash transfer program, Bolsa Verde, set up by the Brazilian government. (...)

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Beatriz Souza
Brazil
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
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Grant to promote environmental conservation will start to be ...
www.brasil.gov.br › ... › History › 2011 › 08 › 11 - Translate this page
11 ago. 2011 – Grant to promote environmental conservation will start to be distributed next month ... will start to receive the "Green Grant" ("Bolsa Verde") next September. ... plan ("Brasil sem Miséria"), the grant is an income transfer program ...
Bolsa Verde: Brasil lanza un programa medioambiental para los ...
iberorusa.com/.../bolsa-verde-brasil-lanza-un-prog... - Translate this page

29 Sep 2011 – La presidenta de Brasil, Dilma Rousseff, lanzó ayer un nuevo programa denominado Bolsa Verde (Green Grant) para promover “el desarrollo

Marlene Curtis
United States
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 82
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