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Brazil nut cemetery Capacity building in rural communities Causes of death Community decisions and cost-benefit analyses Community forest reserves Diversity is security From compatibility to conflict Fruit or timber? Furniture or medicine? Income from 1 ha over ten years (timber vs. fruit) Mortality of fruit trees New uses for dead wood Price of forest seeds relative to the price of wood Reserve for the future Ten years later: communities reflect on their timber sales Threshold Timber: fair trade
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Where did our medicines go? Women for sustainability: rethinking timber vs. seed extraction
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3URFHVVLQJ Backwoods processing: the key to andiroba’s curative power? Buriti pulp Extracting the oil – copaiba How to extract latex How to make oil - patauå Jatobå advances rubber technology Oil extraction - inajå Oil: How do you extract it? - buriti Piquiå oil Preparing the vine for market Tips for oil extraction Tools of the trade Traditional techniques for extracting oil – andiroba Uxi oil by Senhorinha Variation in oil yields – andiroba
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