The farmer and the processing juice industry in Brazil and abroad, seeking ways to reduce their losses, through the use of new varieties, diversification of processing to obtain new products and the establishment of partnerships with centers research for the development of techniques using the residue of agribusiness. Aim thereby reducing the environmental impact generated by the production process and maximize your profits.

In this context, the Embrapa Food Technology, in partnership

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015

This study analyses the mobilization experience of two groups of women which practice mangaba extractivism and call themselves pickers. They inhabit restinga areas (sandbanks) and tabuleiros (tablelands) in the Brazilian northeast and fields of the north, where they practice various activities (fishing, handicraft, tourism wage-earning, etc.), which are essential to their family's reproduction. This project's goal is to analyze the mobilization experience of women mangaba fruit pickers in the co

Status: Completed     Start date: Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009

After eight years of intervention among the mangaba fruit picker women, an inter-institutional and inter-disciplinary team in the northeast and north of Brazil has mapped extractivist areas, has written about the importance of its practices to the conservation of biodiversity and culture, has supported the foundation of the Mangaba Fruit Picker Women Movement (MCM), has trained fruit picker women and has systematized essential knowledge to the comprehension of their life styles. In addition, it

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011