Shelling Brazil nuts

A worker shells Brazil nuts, Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Peru.

For more on the lives of Brazil nut harvesters, watch this video: www.blog.cifor.org/16627/snakes-thieves-and-falling-nuts-...

Photo by Marco Simola/CIFOR

For more information on CIFOR's research on Brazil nuts in Peru, please contact Manuel Guariguata (mailto:m.guariguata@cgiar.org)

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