The Challenge of açaí: This Is How Brazil Works to Ensure that the Global Fever for This Tropical Fruit Does Not End the Amazon

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The COP30 opens this year in Belém, a Brazilian city close to the Amazon. A tropical forest today destroyed, especially by the cultivation of soybeans that is found in the auges of French cattle.

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Every night, the port of Belém, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, becomes a bustling market dyed with purple. It is the color of the açaí, the fruit of a tropical palm tree that in recent years has become fashionable in the middle of the world because of its high nutritional value. The boats have crossed the waters of the Amazon estuary full of baskets to overflow with the fruits that have been harvested that same day. When the night falls, …