会议名称：“2024世界木材日”研讨会暨第六届国际林联（IUFRO）林产品文化研究组讨论会
会议时间：2024年3月21-22日

报告嘉宾：Eduardo López Rosse博士
嘉宾单位：玻利维亚科恰班巴市政府

报告题目：The Hidden Potential of the Non Wood Forestal Products from the Bolivian Amazonia: The Asaí (Euterpes predatoria) Value Chain Upgrading through Regenerative Forestal Enterprises for Supporting People Living in Food Vulnerability

报告摘要：
Predatory practices deforested the Amazonian forest during the last hundred years driving into de landscape changing and endangering native species. The identification of noble Non Wood Forestal Products (NWFP) such as the Asaí (Euterpe precatoria) which was exploited through cutting the whole palm, but now with the intervention of technical service providers, this trend was changed into a more sustainable fruit collection. The legal framework in the Bolivian scenario for industrialization of Amazonian fruits is a turning point which helped to implement three model processing plants in Pando encouraging sustainable collection of Asaí and other Amazonian fruits (almonds, peyibaye) according to the season. In this study, the value chain map was used as an instrument to identify all actors involved in the Asaí value chain. In spite of the present legal framework for ensuring food security for vulnerable populations (children, pregnant women and elders), Amazonian products such as Asaí are oriented to be exported overseas (processed products) and for national markets (pulpa) to the preparation of fancy desserts commercialized in the richest neighborhoods of the principal cities in contradiction to the Law No 765 Eating Well and the Law No 622 on public policies for school foods. This study shows how extraordinary foods in nutritional values are diverted to foreign markets instead of accomplishing overall objectives such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) number 1 eradication of poverty and number 2 zero hunger among the most important. The role of public enterprises in the Bolivian context such as EMAPA and EBA play and important task delivering these Amazonian fruits to vulnerable populations but some strategies are required to fulfill the SDG further.

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