CIFOR–ICRAF publishes over 750 publications every year on agroforestry, forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy and much more – in multiple languages.

CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

We deliver actionable evidence and solutions to transform how land is used and how food is produced: conserving and restoring ecosystems, responding to the global climate, malnutrition, biodiversity and desertification crises. In short, improving people’s lives.

Giants of the Amazon

Every Brazil nut you eat comes from the Amazon rainforest. Brazil nut trees have a unique reproductive system, which requires the presence of large bees to transport pollen from one tree to another. This means these Amazonian giants only thrive in natural forests, and when trees are cut down around them, they no longer produce.

For the full story see:
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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