Shedding Light on the Brazilian Amazon Biotrade: A Study on Sustainable Development in Native Communities

Marcelo Elias, Lara Bartocci Liboni, Luciana O. Cezarino, Flavio Pinheiro Martins, Márcio Lopes Pimenta (), Per Hilletofth and Olli-Pekka Hilmola
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Marcelo Elias: School of Economics, Business Administration and Accounting, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900—Vila Monte Alegre, Ribeirão Preto 14040-905, SP, Brazil
Lara Bartocci Liboni: School of Economics, Business Administration and Accounting, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900—Vila Monte Alegre, Ribeirão Preto 14040-905, SP, Brazil
Luciana O. Cezarino: Department of Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Cannaregio, 873, 30123 Venezia, Italy
Flavio Pinheiro Martins: School of Economics, Business Administration and Accounting, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900—Vila Monte Alegre, Ribeirão Preto 14040-905, SP, Brazil
Márcio Lopes Pimenta: Business and Management College, Federal University of Uberlândia, Av. João Naves de Ávila, 2121, Uberlândia 38408-100, MG, Brazil
Per Hilletofth: Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, University of Gävle, SE-801 76 Gävle, Sweden
Olli-Pekka Hilmola: Kouvola Unit, LUT University, Tykkitie 1, FIN-45100 Kouvola, Finland

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 19, 1-18

Abstract: The Amazon is a biodiversity hotspot. Around 90% of its territory is inhabited by native communities, who spontaneously organize themselves into groups of extractivists and small producers, relying on biodiversity as their primary means of sustenance. This paper aims to discuss how the biotrade of Amazonian biodiversity goods affects native communities with respect to environmental, social, and economic sustainability. Based on a sample of 178 native extractivists in four communities, we concluded that biotrade enabled native communities to market their products by adapting to existing conditions, considering the difficulties and the expectations of traditional residents, and contributed to the three dimensions of sustainable development.

Keywords: Amazon; native communities; traditional communities; biotrade; biodiversity; sustainable development; system approach; bioproducts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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