{"id":523422,"date":"2022-09-01T06:26:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T13:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=523422"},"modified":"2023-12-07T14:16:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T22:16:50","slug":"mapping-amazon-superfruit-market","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/mapping-amazon-superfruit-market","title":{"rendered":"Community-Led Conservation Creates Sustainable Super Fruit Market in the Amazon"},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[276612,295772,371092,1461],"industry":[],"esri-blog-category":[479792],"esri_blog_department":[478222],"class_list":["post-523422","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esri-insider","tag-amazon","tag-indigenous","tag-protected-areas","tag-sustainability","esri-blog-category-community-led","esri_blog_department-conservation-and-environment"],"acf":{"video_source":"","video_start":"","video_stop":"","short_description":"Nature and Culture International established a market for buriti fruit, mapping to increase native palms and aid indigenous livelihoods.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Right","content":"Nature and Culture International (NCI) engages indigenous communities with locally led efforts to sustain ways of life, using super fruits as a powerful tool for conservation.\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Key Takeaways:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Mapping where super fruits are found has helped establish links to producers to create a global market.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Conservation efforts involving indigenous groups focus on sustainable harvesting to ensure livelihoods while keeping ecosystems intact.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>GIS analysis helps secure wildlife corridors across ecosystems and landscapes.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"A conservation group helped bring an Amazonian super fruit to market with sustainable practices\u2014and it started with a map.\r\n\r\nThe buriti, known for its high concentration of nutrients, and its rich moisturizing and anti-inflammatory properties, grows atop 130-foot buriti palm (aka moriche palm) trees in the wetter regions of Brazil and Peru. Before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natureandculture.org\">Nature and Culture International<\/a> (NCI) helped establish a formal and sustainable market for buriti, people would often cut down the palms to harvest the fruit.\u00a0While this was apparently easier than climbing, the practice wasn\u2019t sustainable because regrowth takes roughly 25 years.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe started this path of advocacy against practices that generate deforestation,\u201d said Ricardo Rivera, NCI coordinator in Loreto, the region with the most buriti palm trees in Peru. The teams at NCI mapped 7.5 million acres of the Peruvian land near the Amazon, using a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/what-is-gis\/overview\">geographic information system (GIS)<\/a> to specify the location and quantity of buriti palms and determine harvesting plans."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":533202,"image_position":"right","orientation":"vertical","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"\u201cWe map the palm trees using satellite imagery and georeferencing,\u201d Rivera said. \u201cThen we transfer the information to many other stakeholders that we collaborate with.\u201d\r\n\r\nAided by data-driven maps, NCI established a supply chain among local harvesters, government agencies, producers, and distributors to get the fruit sold in stores and sent to global markets. The GIS maps also guide strategies to preserve the native forests.\r\n\r\nBy combining income-generating plans with conservation efforts, NCI aims to set aside more acres of the Amazon forest for sustainable practices, with local knowledge enhancing the effort. Now, for instance, instead of cutting down the trees, local communities use climbing harnesses that they\u2019ve modified for the purpose and for comfort.\r\n<h3><strong>A Supply Chain Is Created for a Remote Region<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nRivera, who works in the Loreto region of Peru where he is from, has a deep respect for the communities along the Amazon. He says that the Loreto city of Iquitos, known as the capital of the Peruvian area of the Amazon, \u00a0\u201cis the largest city in the world that doesn\u2019t have a physical road connection. Instead, people and goods travel by rivers and planes.\u201d\r\n\r\nThis isolation has aided conservation, with an estimated 95 percent of the region\u2019s ecosystems intact. But it poses challenges to establishing a market for the super fruit and other sustainably harvested products from the forest.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe communities around the forest are the owners of the forest. It\u2019s very important to have them in this chain of value,\u201d he said. \u201cThey protect the forest, and they are also improving their livelihoods.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","gallery_images":[523462,533222,533252,523472]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Due to the super fruit\u2019s nutritional benefits and increasing availability, demand for products such as buriti oil has been growing. That exposure can create larger economic impact, leading to a perpetual cycle of what is known as\u00a0<em>productive conservation<\/em>.\r\n\r\n\"It was hard at first, because we were not used to climbing the trees,\" said Robert Rasma Marin, president of the Maquizapa Association from the community of San Antonio, Peru. \"Instead of stumps where trees were once felled 20 years ago, the moriche palm trees have begun to repopulate the area again, and we're managing our buriti better.\"\r\n<h3><strong>Rain Forest Ecology Impacts Local Economy\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nProtecting the livelihoods of those who know the forest well is not only a fundamental imperative, but also essential to harvesting buriti fruit because of the labor force it takes to manage and understand the lifecycles of the tree and the ecosystems where they grow.\r\n\r\nHarvesters benefit from GIS maps, using them to see the distribution of fruit and track where they have harvested. They also consult the maps when making decisions about where and how to collect, transport, and process the fruit at the point of peak ripeness.\r\n\r\nLocal communities also rely on their knowledge of lunar phases and the life-cycle of the fruit. They are mindful of factors such as weather shifts and market momentum, which necessitate stockpiling during times of abundance.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe native people tell us that climate change and cold spells are a risk that we must notice,\u201d Rivera said. \u201cIt\u2019s very possible that this year the trees won\u2019t produce the same amount of fruit as in other years.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","gallery_images":[533192,533212,533232,533242]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Companies benefit from NCI\u2019s experience in sustainable harvesting with communities, which is central to the conservation-oriented nonprofit\u2019s mission. For instance, one of NCI's partners works with communities to transform the pulp of the fruit through freeze-drying, which makes it easy to store and transport without losing its nutritive value. This process reduces transportation costs and emissions, adding to the sustainability of the forest and the buriti fruit market.\r\n\r\n\u201cOur organization name is Nature and Culture,\u201d Rivera said. \u201cThe culture relates to the community\u2019s vision for the communities' forest.\u201d\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLearn more about community-led conservation in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Local-Voices-Choices-Community-Led-Conservation\/dp\/1589486463\">new book from Esri Press that highlights Jane Goodall\u2019s work<\/a>\u00a0to empower local communities. Read more about how\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/industries\/conservation\/overview\">GIS supports sustainable conservation<\/a>."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":533392,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Center","content":"<h2><strong>Creating Coalitions for Conservation<\/strong><\/h2>\r\nDeforestation and development in the Amazon have caused ecosystems to lose connectivity, reducing available areas for wildlife to find food, migrate, and increase population size.\r\n\r\nDeclining connectivity also impacts human access to clean water, nutrient diversity, food security, and climate regulating mature forests.\r\n\r\nAs part of its conservation strategy, Nature and Culture International follows a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.natureandculture.org\/field-notes\/connectivity-across-large-landscapes-with-our-mosaic-model\/\">Mosaic Model<\/a> that aims to increase connectivity across ecosystems and landscapes in the Amazon rainforest. Using geographic information system (GIS) technology, they analyze human and wildlife data to identify and secure wildlife corridors that can facilitate this vital connectivity.\r\n\r\nNCI collaborates with government agencies to understand jurisdictional boundaries and influence conservation goals and policies. Working closely with NCI are indigenous communities whose cultures and livelihoods rely on conservation efforts to remain on their land and continue their ways of life despite pressures from human development and climate change.\r\n\r\nBuilding on their GIS analysis, NCI and its partners also use the technology to collaborate on projects\u2014mapping and displaying watersheds, species diversity, and community land use to determine the best places to protect.","snippet":""}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Creating a Sustainable Super Fruit Market along the Amazon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nature and Culture International established a market for buriti fruit, mapping to increase native palms and aid indigenous livelihoods.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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