Gestão comunitária de projetos de manejo florestal sustentável (PMFS) na Gleba Nova Olinda I, Santarém/Pará.

Abstract

This research aimed to understand and analyze the process of community management of PMFS through the administrative functions (planning, organization, direction and control), and specifically: identifying how communities use the forest and the logging companies relate.; and analyze the productive and / or economic practices that can be reconciled with the PMFS, aiming at generating income and / or food for the communities. The methodology used in the research was the Participatory Rapid Diagnosis (DRP), from the application of tools such as: semi-structured interview, georeferenced maps, productive calendar and flow diagram. The SWOT matrix was also used to analyze the internal and external environment of the researched organizations. The research identified that the communities do not have historical tradition with the forest management activity, but with the extraction activity, mainly for the collection of Brazil nuts and rosin. The relationship between the communities and the logging companies is contractual for the management activity, where the company is responsible for all stages of the process, passing on to the communities the values of logging. The PMFS resource management process demonstrates how a lack of knowledge of administrative functions in planning, organizing, directing and controlling acts weakens the autonomy of community organizations. Traditional production practices can be reconciled with forest management activity, but it is necessary to evaluate the opposite of this statement. “Can forest management threaten some traditional practices developed by communities?”