Extrativismo sustentável no Cerrado: utilizando manejo de base ecológica e serviços ecossistêmicos na conservação, geração de renda e identidade cultural

Abstract

The law nº 12,651/2012 provides for Legal Reserves (LR) as: an area located in the interior of a country estate, that has as function to promote the sustainable economic use of natural resources in those properties and to promote the biodiversity conservation. Therefore, the practice of sustainable harvesting in legal reserves of settlements and traditional communities is a compatible and important instrument in the Agroecology’s struggle for environmental preservation and in the cultural identity legitimacy of the community with the territory, providing the sustainable use to assign economic value to the forest standing, going against the derogatory logic of the replacement of natural landscapes that remain for other types of use, thus presenting a ecological alternative for family’s income generation. In this study, we sought to identify the harvesting potential through the Participatory Rural Diagnostic (RPD) and the Legal reserve’s floristic survey phytosociology. The floristic and structural analysis of area’s biodiversity, aims to: i) fruitiful species identification with food and economic added value; II) provide tools for the preparation of a management plan for sustainable Harvesting; III) sustainable forest management, using the technique of Enrichment planting, deploying fruitful species that might be benefited, to compose the products offered to the final consumer. The area presents positives levels of wealth and biodiversity, represented by the Shannon index of 2.66. The presence of fruitful species was observed in the area susceptible to sustainable harvesting and through DRP we could to identify the fruitful species of economic family interest.