Income supplementation through extractive collection of native Cerrado species: Baru as a case study

Abstract

Because of chances that are occurring on the production systems of agriculture it’s growingthe
numberof agrarian reform settlements, that are formed by farmer workersgroups, whose
are looking for access and possetion of the earth through the agrarian reorder. Besides, they
needto count with public politics, and economic helps to be stablished at the territory, and gain
money in a sustainable way. The present article mains to show the importance of extrativism
practice and the multiactivity important economic activity, been through the collector benefying
native fruits, or through the conservation of other native species of the Bioma Cerrado itself.
The following informationwascollectedthrough fieldresearch in ambientalvulnerabilities areas
of the settlement Egídio Brunetto at the city of Flores GO. We could verify that even behind a
lot of social and economic difficulties, the settlement farmers are cooking for better conditions
of life, and trying to continue at the rural life, reconciling their agricultural activities with extra
activities, maintaining their culture,avoiding the rural exodus and conservingthe local biodiversity.
The feature of this study of extrativismisrelated to the local specie named baru.