Manejo Florestal Comunitário da Andiroba (Curupa guianensis, Aublet): Integrando o Conhecimento Local à Pesquisa-ação no Sudeste do Pará

Abstract

The experience developed by a group of farmers Project of Assentamento Agroextrativista Praialta Piranheira, located in the city of New Ipixuna Southeast Paraense, with the forestry andiroba, for four (4) years, enabled the development of this work, that aimed to systematize such experience, recording the steps followed by farmers. In the process of building the management of andiroba, was basic the presence of agent search-action, monitoring the activities that were built over these years, participating actively in the draft speeches and practices developed. The achievements are reports of the actions of these actors (farmers extrativistas and agent search-action), developed various activities, including: community meetings, forest inventories, identification and changes in the oil extraction process of andiroba, physico-chemical analysis of oil andiroba and discussions on the real needs to pursue such activity. This initiative is & proposal that strengthens the construction of alternatives for the various uses of forest products, since the same until the present day remains suppressed for the deployment of grazing and/or suffering severe changes in vegetation cover moved by deforestation. For farmers who practice forest management of andiroba and other apices, feel honored to be complying whit the philosophy of creating the project Assentamento Agroextrativista, they should develop as the main system of production activities extrativistas, justified by the importance of conserving the forest standing for gestation future.