The ‘forgotten’ people picking your Brazil nuts – for a fraction of the price
by Flávia Milhorance and Brian Barth in Rondônia, B from World news | The Guardian on (#5GC6W)
Rich profits from the prized nut have failed to benefit those finding them. Now cooperatives hope to shake up the system
On a steamy March morning, Edivan Kaxarari walks with a few other villagers in single file down a trail in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil's Rondonia state, near the border with Bolivia.
His sister-in-law Cleiciana carries her 11-month-old son in one arm and a rifle in the other, and his brother Edson clears the path ahead with a machete. It is hunting season for the seeds of the Amazonian Brazil nut tree.
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