Cadeia produtiva dos biocosméticos no Amazonas: da terra ao laboratório, do laboratório á indústria e destes ao mercado

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the productive chain of the biodiversity of the Amazon biocosmetics from the case study of three bioindustries located in the state of Amazonas, Amazongreen, the Pharmakos of Amazon and Gotas of Amazon. Permeates by a problem that is sought to answer in terms of historical-geographical (regarding space and time) the commercial importance of the forest is the same inputs from the collection of "inner drugs" in the state of Amazonas; how to develop the productive chain of each bioindustries, and finally if the point of view that promotes biotechnology in the Amazon, the bioindustries analyzed can join the network of actors that is articulated to the promotion of science, technology and innovation in the area the biocosmetics. To address this issue was used as a short time frame for resumption of the seventeenth century colonial history with the cycle backwoods drugs until nineteenth century when there is a strong discourse of the forest as a resource to bioindustrialization. The spatial area is the city of Manaus, it is home to the analyzed bioindustries and as analytical approach it was listed two oil products Amazon: andiroba [Carapa guianensis] and copaiba [Copaifera langsdorfii], and focused on a theoretical basis geographical category of analysis, the territory. In this context, the objective of the research was to analyze the biocosmetics sector in Amazonas through the case study companies Amazongreen, Pharmakos of Amazon and Gotas of Amazon, and the specific objectives were to analyze through relation space / time, in economy of the Amazon, the importance of the extraction from the collect of backwoods in Amazonas, describe the productive chain of andiroba and copaiba biodiversity to meet the demands of bioindustry three case study; and analyze the network of actors that consolidate biotechnology in the state of Amazonas to give input to biocosmetics industries in Manaus. It has been that the commercial importance of inputs in the Amazon forest still exists, but rather is now enriched by scientific and technological contributions of biotechnology. The productive chain of biodiversity should not exist without consideration of the communities living in the territories of extraction of oil and the biotechnology, especially that mediated by the Amazon Biotechnology Center, does not occur as originally planned, but it is not nonexistent, and the promoting science, technology and innovation in the sector biocosmetics the public sphere is the driving force through the network of actors that allows for the consolidation, financing and participation of public federal, state and local governments