2021-10-202021-10-202020-04PINHEIRO, Ailton Castro; BARBOSA, Wagner Luiz Ramos; VASCONCELLOS SOBRINHO, Mário. Recursos específicos e sua ativação para o desenvolvimento territorial: o caso da fitoterapia popular em Marapanim-PA. Brazilian Journal of Development, online, v. 6, n. 4, abr. 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.34117/bjdv6n4-102. Disponível em: http://repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/13634. Acesso em:.2525-8761https://repositorio.ufpa.br/handle/2011/13634The article aims to analyze the formation and activation of Specific Resources in the area of Popular Phytotherapy in the Paraense Amazon. For this, a participatory, documentary and bibliographic research was carried out focusing on the city of Marapanim-PA, which stands Brazilian Journal of Development Braz. J. of Develop., Curitiba, v. 6, n. 4,p.18022-18036 apr. 2020. ISSN 2525-8761 18023 out for having an association of women who for more than 20 years practices popular herbal medicine and for having approved, in 2019, its municipal program. of Medicinal Plants and Herbal Medicines. The result shows that the Specific Resource was the result of a long learning process where the partnership with the university was fundamental for the creation of appropriate technologies, such as social biotechnology, but the effective activation of this resource is still a challenge in this territory.Acesso Abertohttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/br/Recurso específicoAtivos territoriaisPlantas medicinaisFitoterapia popularSpecific resourceTerritorial assetsMedicinal plantsPopular phytotherapyArtigo de Periódico10.34117/bjdv6n4-102