CHESTNUTS & QUILOMBOS DO ALTO TROMBETAS: A FAIRTRADE PROPOSAL
fair trade; traditional communities; socio biodiversity; greengrab;
Amazônia.
With the emergence of environmental questions, there is a growing demand in the consumer market for products free from any predatory exploitation, both environmental and socioeconomic. Since the chestnut of Pará has been seen as a natural resource for centuries, studies show that the extraction of the chestnut, although it helps in the regeneration of the chestnut, has not been such a profitable activity for the quilombolas of the upper Trombetas River. In this context, this research intends to analyze the productive chain of Pará nuts, considering socio-environmental justice in this bioeconomy. The scientific method used was the bibliographic review in the main documents related to the chosen locus, the quilombos of the Trombetas River, basically containing three stages: 1. Selection and reading about the Pará nut trade; 2. The analysis of the discourses found in the bibliographies compared to the observation in loco; and 3. The proposal for a fairtrade model for the Brazil nut chain to achieve the praxis of socio-environmental justice. And he concludes that although extractivism is fundamental for the existence of the Brazil nut production chain, for socioenvironmental justice there is a need for advice to extractivists based on the pedagogy of 4 autonomy, in order to balance the distribution of profitability that the chain generates, in order to raise the socioeconomic levels of communities.