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the state of forests
social groups, which does not exclude
These products obtained by the 2,900
do not require electricity nor harm
technology incorporation, nor product
households living in the extractive
human health or the environment, but
the state of the environmet in Brazil
transformation and value-adding The
view of “Multiple Use of the Forest”
includes agricultural and pastoral
farming, extraction and forestry
activities, reaching not only productive
processes, but also transformation and
commercialisation processes
Therefore, there is not an
extractionactivity involving the
collection of one product only This
search for new economic alternatives is
the main characteristic of modern
extraction and, among them, the
addition of value on extraction products
reserves generated from 1995 to 1999 a
revenue of R$41,750,08100 or R$23900
per household/ month (National Centre
for the Sustainable Development of
Traditional Populations CNPT 1999)
From the acknowledgement that nontimber
extractivism is one of the safe
alternatives for the use and conservation
of Amazon natural resources, and that
rubber is the product with greatest
economic and social interconnectivity,
TECBOR was created This project
proposes an alternative technology for
result in an already processed product
within their own household unit,
avoiding middle-men and the
processing plant The final product is
the Liquid Curing Leaf (FDL - Folha de
Defumação Líquida) type, which is
already an industrial raw material
Among the advantages of this
technology, the producer associations
(means by which the rubber is sold)
emphasises the co-operation mood that
increases community organisation The
FDL technique also offers good
technical characteristics and
has deserved a special attention, by
Amazonian rubber production and it
advantages of its industrial use The
primary processing at production sites
was designed by in a partnership
increase in income may make rubber-
involving the University of Brasília
tapers’ permanence in the forest viable,
The large diversity available in the
Chemistry Laboratory – UnB/LATEC, the
so they can preserve their activity area
forests makes management and
National Centre for the Sustainable
as well as local genetic resources and
extraction of products and services
Development of Traditional Populations
their own culture TECBOR Project’s
viable, with economic possibilities such
– IBAMA/CNPT (UNDP Project BRA 95/
goal is to reach the most distant groups
as timber, phytotherapy products and
029), the Secretariat for the Co-
of rubber-tapers who have few income
cosmetics, fauna management, fishing
ordination of the Amazonian Affairs –
options and are settled mainly in the
potential, forest seeds, ecotourism,
MMA/SCA, the National Council of
Amazon, in difficult financial conditions
craftsmanship, environmental services
Rubber-tapers – CNS and the Amazon
due to the low demand for national
(generation and purification of water,
Working Group – GTA (UNDP Project
rubber
carbon dioxide absorption) There are
BRA 96/012)
already extractive activities of products
such as: rubber, Brazil nut, assai, palm
This technology allows the rubber-taper
heart, peach palm, cupuaçu
to prepare a processed product, using
(Theobroma grandiflorum), rice,
simple techniques and materials, which
banana, cassava flour, bean, corn, sweet
potato, yam, vegetables, fruits (avocado,
sweetsop, Barbados cherry, bacaba
(Oenucarpus bacaba), cocoa, hog plum
(Spondias lutea), cashew, coconut,
guava, graviola (Annona muricata),
orange, lime, mango, nance (Byrsonima
crassifolia), watermelon, milpesos
palm, umari (P paraensis), annatto (Bixa
orellana), uxi (Endopleura uchi)),
chicken, ducks, pigs, cattle, game meat,
craftsmanship, honey, copaiba
(Copaifera Langsdorffii), andiroba
(Carapa guianensis), vine, straw,
firewood/ wood for fences, corrals,
chicken yards, pigpens, canoe utensils
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