From the Amazon to the World: A Story of Brazil nuts

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Every Brazil nut you eat comes from the Amazon rainforest.

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Every Brazil nut you eat comes from the Amazon rainforest.

They grow on giant trees across the Amazon – but are especially abundant in
Brazil, Bolivia and Peru.

In Peru, the government formalised traditional Brazil nut harvesting areas
under a system of concessions, where each family has the right to collect nuts
in a particular patch of forest.

Felicitas Ramirez Surco owns a concession of 242 hectares, with 168
producing Brazil nut trees.

She’s nearly 60, so she’s hired Serapio Condores Daza to harvest the nuts for
her.

Every year from January to April – the wet season – the huge Brazil nut fruits
fall from the trees. Señor Serapio gathers them into piles.

At a safe distance from the tree (so the fruits don’t fall on his head) he uses a
machete to split the hard case open…

This year, scientists from the Centre for International Forestry Research are
working alongside Señor Serapio in Señora Felicitas’ concession.

They’re counting every fruit, and once those have been cracked open,
weighing every sack of nuts, to record how much each tree produces.

The scientists are hoping to discover what impact selective timber logging in
the concessions has on Brazil nut production…

Among other factors, they're looking at logging impacts on the forest structure - like gaps or
skid trails - and how these in turn affect the amount of nuts nearby Brazil nut trees produce.

Señora Felicitas hopes for 100 sacks this year – equalling around 2000
kilograms of shelled nuts.

Señor Serapio seals each sack with leaves…

…then carries them out of the forest to a waiting motorbike.

Each weighs between 60 and 80 kilograms.

They’re taken by motorbike to the nearest village…

Then they’re dried, packaged, and exported to the world.

For more information about logging and Brazil nuts in the Amazon, click:
BLOG STORIES:
• Harvesting both timber and Brazil nuts in Peru’s Amazon forests: can they coexist?
• Learning experience: Young Peruvian foresters contribute to Brazil nut research
• Snakes, thieves and falling nuts: Challenges of Brazil nut harvesting in Peru
PAPERS:
• Compatibility of timber and non-timber forest product management in natural
tropical forests
• Multiple use management of tropical production forests: How can we move from
concept to reality?
• Evaluating the opportunities and limitations to multiple use of Brazil nuts and
timber in Western Amazonia
• Multiple use forestry planning: Timber and Brazil nut management in the
community forests of Northern Bolivia

This work forms part of the CGIAR Research
Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry and
was supported by USAID.

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