El quintal y las frutas: recursos económicos y alimentares en la comunidad negra de Itacoã, Acará, Pará, Brasil

In this study, 46 fruit-bearing species were inventoried in the black community of Itacoã, Acará ( Pará, Brazil), a few kilometers from the city of Belém in the Amazon estuary. The various productive activities carried out by families and their relationship to income generation were also investigated. The main methods used were interviews and visits to home gardens and other fruit production areas (floodplain forests and fallows), in order to identify and locate the fruit-bearing species. The main findings were: a high fruit diversity throughout the community, especially in home gardens; a...