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Dona Ivonete is one of the leaders of the Quebradeiras do Coco Babaçu, women's communities in the Brazilian Amazon who live with and from the Babaçu palm, revering it as "mother"
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The women eat their nuts, press milk from their meat, wash with soap from their fat, cook with charcoal from their shells, build houses from their trunks, roofs from their leaves - and sell their oil
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The Resex Extremo Norte reserve is located in the triple border area of the Brazilian states of Tocantins, Pará and Maranhão, one of the poorest regions of the country. Cattle farming alone is flourishing. Since international cosmetics manufacturers discovered the oil, demand has exploded
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