Of greatest importance are the harvesting of rubber (30,000–35,000 tons annually), Brazil nuts, and carnauba wax in the forests of the Amazon; the harvesting of the fruits of the oil palm (babassu nuts) and olive tree (oiticica) in the northeast; the harvesting of “Paraguayan tea” ...
The nuts which make this red palm oil are smaller than palm oil kernels, and so the harvesting is not done by a machine.What this means for local eaters though, is that people are producing less and less dendê oil in traditional ways, and therefore fewer people nowadays are able to ...
The Kayapo NGOs support sustainable income sources tied to forest conservation and territorial protection. The current portfolio of Kayapo enterprises includes the harvesting and commercialization of Brazil and cumaru nuts, as well as handicrafts, sport-fishing, and field course tourism enterprises (ISA20...