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Archive | 2012

Agroforestry in the Amazon Region: A Pathway for Balancing Conservation and Development

Roberto Porro; Robert Pritchard Miller; Marcos R. Tito; Jason Donovan; Jorge L. Vivan; Ralph Trancoso; Rudi van Kanten; Jorge E. Grijalva; Bertha L. Ramirez; André L. Gonçalves

This chapter argues for a broader conceptual domain provided by agroforestry practices as a key pathway for the reorientation of agricultural systems in the Amazon toward modes of production that combine productivity and sustainability. A contextualization of the multiple expressions of current agroforestry development in the Amazon shows that, contrasting with homegardens and shifting cultivation, ubiquitous in the region, planned or organized agroforestry systems are still minor elements of the agricultural landscape, often arising from farmers’ experimentation or resulting from initiatives funded by international cooperation. A “multichain” approach focusing on both established markets as well as “secondary chains” is suggested as a pathway for agroforestry to go beyond subsistence toward income generation and to reduce the constraints faced by Amazon farmers to intensify land use. The costs and risks presented by practices leading to intensification, aggravated by problems in regional infrastructure, limited access to adequate technical and financial services, and insecure land tenure require equitable development policies and programs to support such initiatives. A stronger policy identity for agroforestry in the region should thus recognize the provision of both economic goods and ecosystem services, and this chapter argues that given the carbon stored in agroforestry systems, the framework of environmental international agreements is an opportunity to combine environmental and livelihood benefits through the design, promotion, and dissemination of agroforestry strategies. A review of policies that can influence adoption of sustainable land use systems in the Amazon region attests their operation in a fragmented manner. These policies must be set as a cohesive whole, being agroforestry the common thread to support and link initiatives to reduce poverty and hunger, curb deforestation and CO2 emissions, and to mitigate climate change. Agroforestry will be then an effective strategy to bridge gaps between policies, and particularly in linking environmental opportunities with economic realities, while enhancing the livelihoods of smallholders, traditional communities, and indigenous peoples in the Amazon.


Forum for Development Studies | 2018

Brokers – A Weapon of the Weak: The Impact of Bureaucracy and brokers on a Community-based Forest Management Project in the Brazilian Amazon

Örjan Bartholdson; Roberto Porro

Abstract The bureaucracy that regulates land tenure, agriculture and community-based forest management (CBFM) in the Brazilian Amazon aims at achieving an impartial administration and process of practices that complies with the intention of laws, regulations and decrees and safeguards the rights of the citizens at large and particularly people in a vulnerable position. Yet the local power-holders’ actual interpretation and implementation of laws, regulations and decrees is to large extent opaque, arbitrary and contingent upon subjective intentions, interests and perspectives. These irregularities and arbitrariness affect poor smallholders hard and hamper their access to resources and formal rights. This paper intends to show how the smallholders who have initiated a CBFM project in a settlement in the north-eastern region of the Brazilian Amazon are unable to manage the project on their own, because they lack financial capital, as well as the necessary social and political capital to be able to obtain compulsory permits and make the contracted firm and people comply with the terms of the contracts. In order to transcend these difficulties, the smallholders utilize their social networks, above all vertical contacts, to attract brokers. The paper argues that this strategy assigns great power and influence to various brokers, and affects how policies are implemented, how resources are distributed or not distributed and how power relations are articulated. These aspects of governance and governmentality are grossly under-theorized in research on development projects in general and CBFM in particular. The paper is based on participant observation and various forms of interviews, carried out in 2012–2017.


Interações (Campo Grande) | 2015

Mobilidade de camponeses entre assentamentos de reforma agrária: territorialidades em cheque no desenvolvimento local da Transamazônica, Pará, Brasil

Ione Vieira dos Santos; Noemi Sakiara Miyasaka Porro; Roberto Porro

O artigo trata do papel da mobilidade espacial de familias camponesas entre assentamentos da chamada reforma agraria no desenvolvimento local da regiao Transamazonica, Estado do Para. A analise das praticas e narrativas de sujeitos locais no contexto de politicas publicas fundiarias e ambientais evidencia que essa execucao vigente nao se coaduna com os processos de territorializacao concebidos pelos chamados beneficiarios de reforma agraria.


Forest Policy and Economics | 2015

Forest use and agriculture in Ucayali, Peru: Livelihood strategies, poverty and wealth in an Amazon frontier

Roberto Porro; Alejandro López-Feldman; Jorge W. Vela-Alvarado


Tropics | 2014

Forest Use and Agriculture in Ucayali, Peruvian Amazon: Interactions Among Livelihood Strategies, Income and Environmental Outcomes

Roberto Porro; Alejandro López-Feldman; Jorge W. Vela-Alvarado; Lourdes QuiÑonez-Ruíz; Zully P. Seijas-Cardenas; Miguel Vásquez-Macedo; Clemente Salazar-Arista; Vladimir I. NúÑez-Paredes; Jefferson Cardenas-Ruiz


Journal of Rural Studies | 2014

Social roots of resource use routes in rural Maranhão, Brazil

Roberto Porro; Noemi Sakiara Miyasaka Porro


Archive | 2018

O povo da roça sem a roça e o manejo florestal comunitário sob a vigilância e controle: políticas públicas de combate ao desmatamento em um PDS na Amazônia.

Noemi Sakiara Miyasaka Porro; Roberto Porro; C. F. dos Santos Junior; A. Brito


Sustentabilidade em Debate | 2017

Segurança alimentar em assentamentos com ênfase ambiental: um estudo de caso do PDS Virola Jatobá, Transamazônica (PA).

Cezário Ferreira dos Santos Júnior; Tatiana Deane de Abreu Sá; Noemi Sakiara Miyasaka Porro; Roberto Porro


Cadernos de Agroecologia | 2016

Densidade e diversidade em açaizais nativos no projeto de desenvolvimento sustentável Virola-Jatobá, em Anapu/PA.

José Antonio Leite de Queiroz; Roberto Porro; Manoel Messias Silva


International Indigenous Policy Journal | 2015

Traditional Communities as "Subjects of Rights" and the Commoditization of Knowledge in Brazil

Noemi Sakiara Miyasaka Porro; Joaquim Shiraishi Neto; Roberto Porro

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Alejandro López-Feldman

Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas

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Joaquim Shiraishi Neto

Federal University of Maranhão

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José Antonio Leite de Queiroz

Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária

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Tatiana Deane de Abreu Sá

Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária

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Jorge L. Vivan

United Nations Development Programme

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Robert Pritchard Miller

United Nations Development Programme

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