Usos de produtos florestais não madeireiros – PFNMs nas Ilhas de Belém, Pará, Brasil

Abstract

This work analyzes the uses of forest products that aren’t made from woods the Belém Islands Women’s Movement - MMIB, which is based in Cotijuba Island, Belém - Pará. This movement has an important role in the communities Cotijuba’s island and its surroundings. The MMIB is an entity that develops actions aimed at dignifying a life of its associates and the surrounding communities, and It develops projects of an educational, social, environmental and economic nature in order to get the generation of income for its participants. The entity has a diverse range of partners, from teaching and research institutions, NGO’s and private institutions. These partnerships have made itpossible for the MMIB to have a constant dynamism in its entity and involving a diverse public. Seeks to understand the relationships between this entity with PFNMs, based on agroextractivist ways, and how these resources are commercialized, mainly the buyer Natura Cosmetics and the processing of this material for the production of handicrafts. And an effort to understand how is the relationship of this entity MMIB with Natura, with the islanders of the municipality and as gender issues within the entity, which is also composed with men.