The expansion of the agricultural and cattle-raising frontier, in the State of
Pará, increased from the 1960s until the beginning of the year 2000, which resulted in a
permanent class struggle, from the economic, social, institutional, but mainly
environmental, point of view. In 2012, Pará became the main timber producer in Brazil,
according to statistics from the extractive sector and forestry. Given this production, the
present work sought to analyze the wood market at world, national and regional level,
with emphasis on the concentration of this product in Pará territory. The results indicate
the existence of continuous production and, still, concentrated in a few municipalities of
Pará, both through the Locational Gini Index and the Normalized Concentration Index.
Therefore, shared management among local productive actors and the adoption of
sustainable local development practices - forest management - are of the utmost
importance for the production of wood products to continue generating employment and
income for of Pará.
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