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Traditional Management of Agrobiodiversity in Brazil: A Case Study of Manioc

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  1. Two large groups of manioc varieties stand out: bitter manioc, which has a fresh weight concentration of cyanogenic glucosides above 80–100 ppm and must be detoxified before consumption, and sweet manioc, also referred to as aipim or macaxeira, which can be cooked without previous processing.

  2. Nheengatu, or general language, is a língua franca of Tupi origin. It was forged by the missionaries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In the Rio Negro, it appeared in the 1740s and is still spoken today as a língua franca in Upper and Mid Rio Negro (Grenand and Ferreira 1989).

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In the Amazon: program on “Biological Resource Management in the Amazon: Varietal Diversity of the Manioc and its Integration in Production Systems,” 1998–2000, supported by CNPq-ISA / IRD cooperation (process 910211/97-3), coordinated by L. Emperaire and G. Andrello, and funded by CNPq (BR) Genetic Resource Office, IRD and CNRS (FR). Field research participants: L. Emperaire, F. Pinton, S. Desmoulière, G. Le Blanc and L. van Velthem. Laboratory research participant: G. Santos Mühlen. In the Atlantic Forest: Ph.D. thesis (N. Peroni): “Ecology and Manioc Genetics in the Itinerant Agriculture of the Southern São Paulo State Coastline: a Spatial and Temporal Analysis”. Supported by FAPESP (process 97/14514-1) and CNPq 2000–2004; (Ph.D. thesis advised by P. Y. Kageyama and A. Begossi) and Post-Doctorate, under the title “Inter and Intra-Specific Diversity of Cultivated Species: Species Management and Fields in the São Paulo State Caiçara Community Land and Sea Use Context.” Supported by FAPESP, processes 01/05263-2 and 03/13688-9 (Coordinated by N. Peroni, A. Begossi, UNICAMP).

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  2. Fisheries and Food Institute (FIFO), Campinas, Brazil

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Emperaire, L., Peroni, N. Traditional Management of Agrobiodiversity in Brazil: A Case Study of Manioc. Hum Ecol 35, 761–768 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-007-9121-x

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