TCD-SFRC’s Ana Violato Espada leads a community exchange in Brazil’s extractive reserves

Ana Violato Espada, a doctoral researcher at the University of Florida, organized a community exchange among users of six Brazilian Amazon extractive reserves to emphasize collective inquiry, experimentation grounded in experience, and the wealth of social learning related to community timber management. The community exchange was part of Ana’s fieldwork (May 2018 to September 2019) for her PhD dissertation, which consisted of extensive data collection using diverse and complementary methods. Drawing on a decade of experience working in community-based forest management in the Amazon, Ana applied a participatory action research approach, using multiple participatory tools to engage people and emphasize participation and action towards Sustainable Forest Management. This constituted an innovative methodological approach to participatory action research that is replicable in natural resource co-management contexts elsewhere.

Details of this experience can be found here (p. 20): https://www.itto.int/direct/topics/topics_pdf_download/topics_id=6529&no=1&disp=inline#page=20