Forest, Brazil nuts and youth: generational transfer of knowledge for the development of non-timber forest products in the Peruvian Amazon

The lack of clear and articulated strategies for the implementation of gender,intercultural and intergenerational approaches in the work carried out between stateauthorities, indigenous communities and families of Brazil nut collectors (and theircooperatives) is worrying. As a result, the promotion of NTFPs such as the Brazilnuts that guarantee the sustainability in the use of the resources of the AmazonForest has been weakened. Although SERNANP has tried to promote certaininitiatives in the last decade, these are still isolated actions over time and withlimited results; there is, however, an openness on the part of the public authority, aswell as the Brazil nuts collectors, to transform this situation and cooperate inprocesses of updating and strengthening management procedures that guaranteethe continuity of sustainable activities.This project will be constituted as a pilot experience from a multi-stakeholderintervention that allows jointly and collaboratively building and validatingmanagement tools for both SERNANP and for indigenous communities and Brazilnuts-collecting families grouped in cooperatives. We start from the needs identifiedin the area and we propose as a hypothesis that given the key moment in which theBrazil nuts harvesting contracts and other NTFPs are in the Peruvian Amazon andthe pressures for the legal and illegal use of the forest, it is necessary study,understand and strengthen the reformulation process of public policy for thesustainable use of the Amazon, taking into account generational changes andmainstreaming fundamental approaches of Peruvian public policy such as genderand interculturality.