September 5th is officially Amazon Day. With a territorial extension almost eight times larger than France, Legal Amazon is always a challenge to those who travel through it. By land, most roads are in a precarious condition; by rivers and rails, the potential of these modes of transport is underused. Therefore, air transport is, in many cases, a solution for public authorities to reach isolated communities and for the transport of products and services.

But flying over the Amazon is also a big challenge. Long distances, dense forest, lack of airstrips are some of the characteristics that require courage and experience from teams working in the region.

Check out, in this last article of the series on the challenges and potentials of logistics and transport in the Amazon, the stories and information about air transport in the region.

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Brazil uses only about 30% of its total waterway potential of approximately 64 thousand km, for economic purposes. It means to say, just over 19,000 km are used – 81% of which (15,500 km) corresponds the Amazon rivers hydric routes. The survey was carried out by National Transport Confederation (CNT), based on data from National Waterway Transport Agency (Antaq).

For this potential to be better exploited, CNT and Antaq point out that it is necessary to invest in signaling, expansion of ports and improvement of infrastructure of waterway terminals, among other measures. Integration of modes may facilitate the flow of production in the Amazon, but railways are still poorly explored in the region.

This is the second theme of the Liberal Amazon series on logistics challenges for transportation in the region, presenting, in three editions, the challenges and potentials faced by each modal.

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The North region, which concentrates seven of the nine states constituting the Amazon, has the worst road network in the country. Almost 80% of its roads are in regular, bad or extremely bad condition, according to the 2021 Road Survey, promoted by National Transport Confederation (CNT). This percentage alerts to a regional reality that brings several problems to the Amazonian development.

According to the CNT survey, Maranhão and Mato Grosso, states from other regions which integrate the Brazilian Amazon also share the need for urgent investments.

Highways are the first theme of the Liberal Amazon series on logistics challenges for transportation in the region, presenting, in three editions, the challenges and potentials faced by each modal.

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As of January 1st, 2023, the president-elect of Brazil will be able to count on a condensation of the expectations of traditional peoples from the different countries where the Amazon territory spreads across. The president shall receive the Pan-Amazon Declaration of Belém, launched after the Pan-Amazon Social Forum, which brought together people from the nine Pan-Amazon countries (Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, French Guiana and Suriname), at the end of July, 2022 in Belém (PA).

The declaration places special emphasis on the impairing obstacles faced by traditional communities and perspectives for a better future according to the vision of indigenous peoples, quilombolas, riverine people, black people and defenders of human rights and nature. It shall be presented also to the President of Colombia – Gustavo Petro – who was elected in June this year and will take office in January 2023.

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DEFORESTATION

The state of Pará is responsible for 95% of local, national and international commercialization of açaí, in an expanding market. However, a scientific study revealed that the bet on monoculture to try to meet this high demand leaves impacts on the wetlands forest

To better guide producers on the sustainable cultivation of açaí, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), develops in Marajó Island (Pará), a project that seeks to strengthen the production chain by preserving the wetlands forest, despite the growing market pressure for the açaí.

To learn more about the impacts of açaí monoculture, management technology and the Marajó initiative, read the full report on our website: www.liberalamazon.com

Group from the Federal University of Western Pará already obtained the invention patent of the product -which is vegan-, and also includes in it's formula bacuri stone, seeds of murumuru and tapioca starch. The next step is to draw industry interest in investing in it.

Cocaine seizures in the Brazilian Legal Amazon, between 2011 and 2021, figure 73% higher than the total amount of drug apprehension in the previous decade. Data disclosed by the Federal Police indicate more intense transportation of drugs, as well as frequent  inspection and combat to international trafficking in the region.

Journalists Cinthia Gatti and Victor Furtado comment on the theme

Journalists Victor Furtado e Pedro Cruz comment on the theme