The CNRS Foundation supports the project “Mapping and cultivating the land with agroecology in Amazonia (Brazil)” by Émilie Stoll, CNRS research fellow in social anthropology, in partnership with the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Her research work in the Brazilian Amazon lies at the intersection of Americanist anthropology (study of South American Amerindian groups), the anthropology of transmission (study of long-term migrations and the construction of ties to the land) and the anthropology of nature (perception of landscape dynamics, relationships between humans and non-humans).
During the first phase, the team developed a permanent nursery technique, enabling it to be registered with the Department of Agriculture of the City of Santarém and the State of Pará, thus guaranteeing the continuity of seedling production activities. The project has made it possible to plant fruit and forest tree seedlings, collected from the properties of families already working with agroforestry systems and thanks to a donation of 2,000 cocoa seedlings from the Santarém Municipal Department of Agriculture. These plants are ready to be transplanted to the plots of farmers’ families who have opted for consortium production in an agroecological system.
The project aims to contribute to a model of coexistence with the forest, without deforestation or the use of pesticides.
