Financial Analysis of the Production of Cernambi in the Tapajós National Forest with the Green Value Tool

Authors

  • Shoana Humphries Green Value, Berkeley/CA, Estados Unidos
  • Stella Schons Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University/Virginia Tech, Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation/FREC, Blacksburg/VA, Estados Unidos
  • Dárlison Fernandes Carvalho de Andrade Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade/ICMBio, Coordenação de Monitoramento da Biodiversidade/COMOB, Brasília/DF, Brasil
  • Roberta Amaral de Andrade Instituto Internacional de Educação do Brasil/IEB (colaboradora de 2010 a 2014), Escritório Regional do Sul do Amazonas, Brasília/DF. Brasil
  • Abidon Serrão Farias Cooperativa Mista da Flona do Tapajós/Coomflona, Santarém/PA, Brasil
  • Leo Eduardo de Campos Ferreira IMAFLORA, Piracicaba/SP. Brasil
  • David McGrath Earth Innovation Institute, Berkley/CA, Estados Unidos
  • Arimar Feitosa Rodriguez Cooperativa Mista da Flona do Tapajós/Coomflona, Santarém/PA, Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37002/biodiversidadebrasileira.v12i5.1903

Keywords:

Rubber, Amazonia, Western Pará

Abstract

The sale of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) by forest-dependent, traditional families in the Brazilian Amazon is an important source of family income. Cooperatives are increasingly supporting this activity through technical assistance and/or help accessing markets. Scarce information exists, however, on the costs and income generated from NTFP extraction for individual producers or for the support programs implemented by cooperatives. Nonetheless, this information is essential for operational planning and future decision making, as well as the financial sustainability of these activities. We present a financial analysis of the production of cernambi (coagulated natural rubber extracted from the tree species Hevea brasiliensis M. Arg.) by families living in and around the Tapajós National Forest in the western region of Pará state, and the sale of the rubber by the Tapajós National Forest Mixed Cooperative (Coomflona), which also provides technical assistance to the families. The analysis was carried out with an individual rubber tapper and members of the Coomflona cooperative based on a methodology developed specifically for use by community-based forest enterprises and their partner organizations. Our results show that the production of cernambi, at the time of the analysis, was profitable and constituted an important source of income for the producer family. However, the profitability of the producer depended on the support of Coomflona in the marketing and product collection stages - for which the profitability proved to be negative. The analysis allowed the evaluation of several alternative scenarios as well as the identification of production bottlenecks and a discussion of potential solutions. 

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Published

2022-11-01

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Section

Manejo Comunitário de Recursos Naturais em Unidades de Conservação

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