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Dr Fabio de Castro

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Fábio de Castro is Assistant Professor of Brazilian Studies. He is an environmental anthropologist with MSc in Ecology in 1992 (State University of Campinas, Brazil) and PhD in Environmental Science/Anthropology in 2000 (Indiana University, USA). Fábio has research experience with academic, non-governmental and governmental organizations in Brazil and in the United States. He is a collaborating researcher at the Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change (Indiana University, USA), and at the Center for Maritime Research (MARE), University of Amsterdam). Fábio is interested in the socio-ecological processes shaping patterns of resource use and management. His research focuses on local governance of natural resource and the dilemma between conservation and development goals at local and broader scales. His interdisciplinary background is reflected in his theoretical and methodological approach, combining ethnographic, historical, socioeconomic, institutional and ecological data to understand how patterns of resource use are shaped and transformed. Fábio is particularly interested in the connections between processes across socio-ecological scales, and how partnerships between users, government and private sectors influence resource conservation. 

RESEARCH PROJECT: LINKAGES. Local and Indigenous Knowledge for an Amazonian Grounded (Bio) Economy
 

Principal Investigators: dr. Fabio de Castro (University of Amsterdam) and dr. Celia Futemma (UNICAMP Universidade Estadual de Campinas). 

 

Consortium partners, including cooperation partners: Federal University of Western Pará (UFOPA), Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Imaflora, Projeto Saúde e Alegria (PSA), Cooperativa Agrícola Mista de Tomé-Açu (CAMTA), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU).

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LINKAGES addresses how value-chains of sociobiodiversity products, grounded in local knowledge and produced in forest, agroforestry, and floodplain-lakes, can support local economies and regional transformation towards sustainable, inclusive bioeconomies for the Brazilian Amazon. Built upon long-term commitment to the region, a transdisciplinary consortium including researchers, farmers, and practitioners will analyse the organisation and functioning of place-based value-chains (açaí, cacao, tropical fruits, timber/non-timber products, and the arapaima fish) and their economic and environmental impacts at local and municipal levels. The project will co-produce knowledge to advance economic, environmental, and administrative and technical performance improving value-aggregation, benefit sharing, and landscape outcomes. +INFO

RESEARCH INTEREST

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Fábio de Castro has conducted research in many different sites in the Amazon and Atlantic Forest in Brazil. He is currently working on two main projects:

1) Political ecology of the implementation of agro-extractive reserves in the Amazonian floodplain
a. Institutional arrangement of co-management systems
b. Participatory and collaborative process
c. Social and ecological performance of the reserves

2) Socio-ecological dimension of the biodiesel program in Brazil
a. Institutional framework of the biodiesel program
b. Social relations between farmers, biodiesel producers and the governmental agencies
c. Economic and social performance of the feedstock production (oil seeds) by small farmers

3) Territorial governance of protected areas in Brazil
a. Compilation of protected areas
b. Institutional arrangement of different categories of protected areas
c. Comparison with land governance for agrarian development

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