In preparation for the World Social Forum, the EED our partner organization FASE on 23 January invited to meet the sustainable agriculture projects around Belém. From Abaetetuba from our small group took a boat to an island to discover the family of a farmer and fisherman and his methods of sustainable management of acai palms. The family is one of the quilombolas, the descendants of Negro slaves who had escaped from slavery in inaccessible areas of the Amazon. As part of a cooperative of 130 families Acai is marketed partly as an oil. Meanwhile, these officially recognized as settlers or in common ownership and use rights to their land. You have presented us with what skill they climb the palm trees.
you're feeling it now very much an extensive agroforestry use, these will provide the basis for life. Risk they are by the rising tide of garbage that is washed ashore at high water with them. When the skills of their work, they are strongly supported by the EED partner organization FASE who just helps the small farmers who compete in the market.
Later we have seen yet to process Acai and cupuacu in a small factory owned by the cooperative.
On the way back we took a ferry Performs with which we supply in the dark from the water to the metropolis of Belém.
Wilfried Steen
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