Abstract
Brazil has a vast diversity of natural resources, which are important in the economic and social context of many families, identified through non-wood forest products (NWFP), among them chestnuts, in the north, and pine nut, in the south of the country. Thus, the objective of the work was to analyze the productive chain of the Brazilian chestnuts in order to establish and identify potentialities existing in its productive chain that can be used to promote the pine nut productive chain in the social, economic and environmental spheres. The study was carried out through the application of an open questionnaire, having as target audience representatives linked to the commercialization and research of both forest products. As a main result, it is evident that the pine nut has an incomplete production chain, presenting itself as a product with secondary representation in the formation of farmers' income, which contributes to the structure of pine nut commercialization being incipient. In addition, the lack of social organization for extractivism is responsible for the non-consolidation of the chain, coupled with the incipient process of industrialization and processing of the pine nut. which limits the added value of the product. There is a need for greater interest and attention on the part of the government with actions involving entities that can assist in the most different spheres, as well as providing technical assistance, research, and financial support.
Highlights
Brazil is a country that has a diversity of biomes and forest formations
Even though all respondents mention the occurrence of direct trade, it should be noted that 50% of them comment that trade occurs through street vendors, who travel in different cities making the sale and 37.5% mention that there is sale in markets and fruit shops
Characterization of chains and social organization Considering the form of trade that is understood as the production chain, it is possible to define two types of commercialization of products from extraction, as described by Silva and Miguel (2017): through long chains or short chains
Summary
Brazil is a country that has a diversity of biomes and forest formations. This is possible thanks to the large amount of natural resources available, which makes them even more relevant and important for their regions of occurrence, as is the case with two non-wood forest products (NWFPs) endemic to regions at the ends of the country: pine nuts and Brazilian chestnuts.Pine nuts occurs in the southern region, in the Atlantic Forest Biome, originating from Araucaria angustifolia (Bert.) O. The exploration of pine nuts, according to Nodari and Klug (2012), is a practice used by the indigenous peoples of southern Brazil, who disputed among themselves the araucarias, which served as their food base, having greater control of its management. Even today they are widely consumed during autumn and winter, especially in the June festivals in the region (FIGUEIREDO et al, 2011)
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