This book features the uncommon quality of bringing together original scientific knowledge on fruits and useful plants of the Amazon forest and the sensibility to detect the deep interaction between life, traditional knowledge of our forests and folk culture. With its language at the same time accessible, pleasant and practical, the book has become a vehicle to disseminate information that is fundamental to the future of the Amazon and to bring alive the dream of a development model that is economically and socially fair, and that respects the environment. In a way that is also accessible to local people, it synthesizes ecological, market, management and cultural information of key Amazonian species in an effort to help expand the knowledge base of traditional forest communities about the value of forest resources. Local people are in dire need of reliable and, above all, accessible market and scientific information that can help them make informed decisions. This publication represents a culmination of local and scientific expertise on forest fruits and related aspects, and above all an example of how it is possible for "science" to share complex ecological and market information effectively with local communities, even in the absence of a common language.

Type of Case
Printed publication (book, sourcebook, journal article…)

Publisher
FAO, CIFOR & PPI

Region
Americas

Biome
Tropical

Forest Type
All forest types (natural and planted)

Primary Designated Function
All