Acai (acai or assai) is one of the Amazon's most popular functional foods and widely used in
the world. There are many benefits to its alleged use in the growing market for …

Tropical forests are recognized for their role in providing diverse ecosystem services (ESs),
with carbon uptake the best recognized. The capacity of tropical forests to provide ESs is …

More than 10,000 years after the Agricultural Revolution started, millions of rural
smallholders across the developing world may still derive as much income from foraging …

The search for healthy diets has led to a surge in the demand for functional foods or
'superfoods', which have now become popular among the middle‐and high‐income …

The açaí palm Euterpe oleracea Mart. in the Amazon river delta has seen rapid expansion to
meet increased demand for its fruit. This has been achieved by transforming lowland forest …

The exploitation of non-timber forest products has been encouraged in order to reconcile
economic uses, biodiversity conservation and the provision of ecosystem services. In this …

Abstract Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) contribute to the livelihoods of more than 6
million households in the Brazilian Amazon. Of the three most important NTFPs in the …

O objetivo deste trabalho foi analisar a dinâmica do mercado de açaí fruto no Estado do
Pará, no período de 1994 a 2009, mediante a estimação simultânea da demanda e da …

This paper addresses a broad reading of the literature on Non-Timber Forest Products
(NTFPs) in order to highlight key issues of NTFP management, their importance for rural …

Enrichment planting of açaí palms (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) has intensified in Amazonian
floodplain forests following increases in both domestic and international demand for the açaí …