The present work aims to characterize the productive practices of Amazonian agroextractive families,
evidencing the process of insertion of bird breeding provided by participation in a local project. For
that, eleven families from the Capim, Caripetuba and Xingu Islands, Abaetetuba municipality in Pará,
were interviewed. The study identified that the agroextractive families from the Capim, Caripetuba
and Xingu Islands are heterogeneous with regard to the availability of resource bases (social and
materials), composition, organization and functioning of the family-establishment system.
Agroextractive families were classified into three types a) type I: restricted base of material resources
with predominance of external income; type II: material resource base with medium diversity and
income centered on the extraction of açaí, fish and shrimp; and, type III: material resource base with
high diversity and multiple sources of income. This reveals that the agroextractive families that benefit
from the local project develop different practices guided by the particularities of the familyestablishment system that imply permanence or resistance in the face of standardized agricultural
development projects.
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