{"id":2036,"date":"2022-10-19T08:12:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T11:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interelos.org.br\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2022-10-19T08:12:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T11:12:57","slug":"plano-para-desenvolver-resex-verde-para-sempre-entra-em-nova-etapa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interelos.org.br\/en\/publicacoes\/artigos\/noticias\/2036-plano-para-desenvolver-resex-verde-para-sempre-entra-em-nova-etapa.html","title":{"rendered":"Plan to develop Resex Verde Forever enters a new stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

New investment promises to develop the a\u00e7a\u00ed and fish chains through the partnership of the Interelos Institute with the Sustainable Development Committee (CDS) of Porto de Moz, in Par\u00e1<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Verde Para Semper Extractive Reserve, the largest extractive reserve in Brazil, located in Porto de Moz, in the north of Par\u00e1, presents a typical picture of the Amazon regions. On the one hand, a potential for development yet to be explored, with the capacity to generate prosperity and decent living conditions for its almost 13,000 inhabitants. This potential is based on its ability to produce socio-bioeconomy assets that are increasingly valued worldwide. On the other hand, the region is under pressure to expand activities with a high environmental impact and is unable to provide an ideal quality of life for its inhabitants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 37 local communities derive their income from a variety of sources including legal logging, fishing, fruit, nut and agricultural production, as well as buffalo and pig farming. But generating income and jobs with sustainable production is a challenge to be overcome, precisely because of the pressure surrounding activities such as livestock and illegal logging. Given this scenario, the Interelos Institute has been developing a partnership with communities<\/a> of the Reserve to strengthen the region's community-based production chains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the funding of Climate and Land Use Alliance (CLUA)<\/a>, Interelos held between 2021 and 2022 a study<\/a> at Resex, in partnership with the Sustainable Development Committee (CDS), in Porto de Moz, to identify development challenges and opportunities based on a sustainable and community economy that guarantees decent income and promotes human rights, such as access to health and education .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As completed study<\/a>, CLUA has renewed its support for the project to move forward in its next stage. To talk about the subject, we interviewed the coordinator of the CDS, who is also a resident of the Reserve, Edilene Duarte da Silva, and the economist and consultant of the Interelos Institute, Antonio Bunchaft. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edilene Duarte da Silva<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Interests: <\/strong>What is the importance of the program for the development of value chains that has been carried out at Resex Verde para Semper, with the support of CLUA (Climate and Land Use Alliance)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edilene: <\/strong>I'm Edilene, coordinator of the Porto de Moz Sustainable Development Committee. In 2020, we entered into a partnership with the Interelos Institute to develop the a\u00e7a\u00ed chain and the fish chain in the Green Forever Extractive Reserve. These chains are very important for communities because, in addition to being a source of income and employment for families, they are necessary to ensure people's food security. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interests: <\/strong>Could you take stock of what has been done so far in this program?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edilene:<\/strong> Between 2020 and 2022, many actions were carried out. Even with the pandemic, activities were carried out with communities to, for example, define which chains they need, can and want to promote. An entire survey was also carried out with the families of what we have today, what we can develop and how this can be done. This survey was carried out through a market study that looked inside the communities, but also outside them, in order to collaborate with the definition of the chains that would be prioritized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interests: <\/strong>What are the next steps and what are the priorities of the program at the moment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edilene: <\/strong>We have the market study ready and the families are very keen to develop these chains, with the support of CLUA, through the Interelos Institute project with the CDS. Now we are going to talk to these families and put into practice what is written in the study. We are going to start this development process, which is necessary to encourage chains and make them work better. We intend to prioritize some chains, mainly the production of a\u00e7a\u00ed and fish, as per the plan. We are going to work to develop these two chains, making families carry out what was planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antonio Bunchaft<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Interests: <\/strong>What is the importance of the program for the development of value chains that has been carried out at Resex Verde para Semper with the support of CLUA (Climate and Land Use Alliance)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antonio: <\/strong>This program is the result of an analysis of Resex's regional potential for the promotion of value chains, which resulted in the selection of two production chains: fish and a\u00e7a\u00ed. These are the ones that showed the most potential to reverse the degradation process that has been taking place in the region from the extensive breeding of buffalo cattle, in addition to the illegal extraction of wood. Its relevant aspect then is to select the value chains with the potential to rival and supplant from the economic point of view those other activities that are inadequate from the point of view of sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interests: <\/strong>Could you take stock of what has been done so far in this project?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antonio: <\/strong>We carried out an extensive diagnosis of the entire Resex under very difficult conditions, including due to the pandemic. The team went into the field, carried out visits and interviews, identified key actors in the community and formed a partnership with the CDS, which is the network of local actors present at the Resex. This diagnosis then raised these possibilities of existing chains in the region and carried out market studies to verify the economic viability of each one of them until we arrived at the selection of fish and a\u00e7a\u00ed chains. Based on this selection, we made medium and long-term business plans for each of the chains. We also studied the School-Family<\/a> local, which is an educational unit adapted to the agricultural conditions of the rural territory that has a strategic role in providing specialized and qualified labor for these chains that will be developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interests: <\/strong>What are the next steps and what are the priorities of the project at the moment?Antonio: <\/strong>The next steps now are, on the one hand, the work with each community that is associated with these two chains in the sense of starting to discuss with the communities that are in different places of the Resex the strategic project of promotion of these chains. So we are going to develop all the work with them in the sense of planning and working on a whole schedule that involves the step-by-step organization and structuring of the chains. For this, it will be necessary to elaborate an institutional framework and a community pact between the actors with this strategic objective. On the other hand, we must start working and structure the School-Family<\/a> of the region so that it can become a permanent structure that operates in the long term and can train, educate, qualify and generate new students with a focus on these chains to build specialized labor in the medium-long term so that Resex does not have to import human resources from outside the region. So the idea is to work and value local labor and help it connect to these chains so that this process becomes sustainable in the medium and long term.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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