Limites e potencialidades da bioeconomia para o desenvolvimento regional : o caso da cadeia produtiva do Murumuru na Regional Juruá - Acre.

Abstract

Bioeconomy has been presented as a promising strategy to reconcile environmental conservation, productive inclusion, and regional development in the Amazon, especially through the valorization of socio-biodiversity value chains. In this context, this dissertation aims to understand how the value chain of murumuru vegetable oil in the Juruá region of Acre state can contribute to the consolidation of the bioeconomy and sustainable regional development. Methodologically, a qualitative approach of an exploratory and descriptive nature was adopted, based on a literature review, document analysis, and field research, including interviews with extractivists and an organizational analysis of the cooperative responsible for processing and marketing the product. The results show that the murumuru production chain presents important socioeconomic and environmental potential, highlighting the generation of complementary income for traditional communities, the valorization of local knowledge, and the adoption of sustainable forest management practices. However, structural and institutional limitations were also identified, such as difficulties related to infrastructure and logistics, low value aggregation, dependence on public policies, managerial weaknesses, and restrictions on market insertion. It was also observed that the regional logistical dynamics, heavily dependent on river transport and subject to climatic seasonality, impose high costs and uncertainties on the outflow of production, affecting the regularity of supply and the competitiveness of the value chain. The analysis of the cooperative indicated an intermediate level of organizational maturity, with advances in governance and socio environmental management, but limitations in the commercial and financial-economic areas. It was also found that asymmetries in value distribution persist along the chain, with greater income capture in the final stages, as well as the central role of subsidy policies in ensuring the economic viability of extractive activities. It is concluded that the bioeconomy, while representing a relevant alternative for regional development in the Amazon, is not an isolated solution, depending on the strengthening of territorial governance, the integration of public policies, the improvement of cooperative management, and the expansion of local productive and organizational capacities.