The creation of the Extractive Reserves, in the beginning of the decade that
started in 1990, arises as an alternative of administration of forest resources in the Units of
Conservation (UC). Centered as a principle of the coadministration between the State and the
resident traditional populations, these Reserves defense, economic and social viability
depends in a large part on the local organization of the agroextractivists. However, in spite of
the enormous potential of economical exploration of forest products, as the Amazon nuts
(Bertholletia excelsa) and the açai (Euterpe oleraceae Mart.), of the strong agricultural
tradition and of the hunting and fishing's many possibilities, multiple difficulties persist inside
the Extractive Reserves Cajari River (Amapa). The conception of the Sustainable
Development and the little production regarding the traditional populations in areas of such
Reserves constituted the decisive factors to the beginning of this research. In this way, the
study the about the Agroextractivism: sustainability and strategies in the Extractive Reserves
Cajari River, south of Amapa tries to identify the evolution and the strategies of the
productive base of the population who live in this UC, in the areas of high and low Cajari, in
an attempt of revealing the rationality of the local agroextractivism. Therefore, it is expected
to evidence the dimension of the change process resulting from the Reserve policies
associated with the social movements, with implications in the environmental, social and
economic fields.
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