May 11, 2022

07:05

Diovana Rodrigues – From Cenarium Magazine

MANAUS – The study ‘Income, forest and life: a plan for the Extractive Reserve Verde Para Sempre’, whose main objective is the construction of business plans within the largest reserve in the country, located in Porto de Moz, Pará (PA), with a focus on income generation for the local population and forest preservation was released by the Interelo Institute. The research was conducted between January 2021 and March 2022, with funding from the Climate and Land Use Alliance (Clua).

Inhabited by 2,235 families, the territory of Moz, in Pará, “is the result of social struggles to preserve the integrity of community territories, as well as their economic activities and natural resources,” as pointed out in the document. The study, divided into four main phases, according to information from the Institute, corresponds to:

• Strategic articulation with local actors for the convergence of purposes, aiming to understand which value chains have potential for the development of business plans;
• In-depth study of the organizational, production, commercialization, and marketing needs for products derived from the prioritized value chains;
• Understanding of the educational model (Casa Familiar Rural) and identification of opportunities for improvement and integration with the prioritized value chains;
• Elaboration of two business plans for prioritized chains in a participative way with local actors and definition of a funding strategy for structuring and implementation of attractive and viable value chains.

The VERDE region has three distinct territorial formations: the floodplain area (periods of flooding and ebb tide), the transitional area (stretches with characteristics of floodplain and forest) and the upland forest (non-flooded environments, with natural aptitude for logging). They are divided as follows:

Prioritized chains

As an alternative for sustainable development in the largest conservation unit in Brazil, the nuts have the weaknesses of “the competing market comprises both intermediaries and local and central processing industries (Belém) that act with their own intermediation structures, lowering prices in an oligopsonic model, where there are few buyers and numerous sellers.

According to the study, there is still an irregularity of production not scientifically understood that affects the predictability of production. The text points out that there is also a tendency to decrease production as of 2040, in the State of Pará, which may affect commercialization, besides serious sanitary problems that today are impediments to access more demanding markets, including the international market.

The oils have high demand for raw materials inputs of biodiversity for the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industry, but, on the other hand, “the need for organization of the productive base and with the complex logistics of flow; difficulties in ensuring quantity, quality and price
information about production volume of other oils is diffuse and does not allow to generate more accurate statistics; access to markets with higher added value.

There is still no market differentiation for community managed timber (an opportunity and challenge for market development); unfair competition with the illegal supply and occurrence of illegal logging in community areas; (…) traditionally male operation, which may exclude more vulnerable populations, although there is growing interest and insertion of women and young people, especially in administrative and management tasks”.

Açaí and fish

Still about the prioritized chains, the research analyzed that, in this way, “the development of business plans for the açaí and fishing chains contributes to the structuring of value chains in these environments, generating alternatives for these communities and reducing their sensitivity to interests contrary to the extractive reserve”.

Finally, it discusses the participation of society in public policies, in which it evaluated the experiences of participation that have ceased to act or have not even begun, reviewed the compositions of the permanent instances in which civil society representation is a minority, in the federal, state, and municipal spheres, the establishment of incentives and measures, and the review of regulations.

Read the study in full: