Bioeconomia e inovação socioambiental: o papel das redes no território do Alto Rio Urupadí em Maués/AM

Abstract

Bioeconomy and socio-environmental innovation represent interdisciplinary approaches that seek to integrate principles of biology and economics to promote sustainable development. The bioeconomy refers to the sustainable use of biological resources for the production of food, energy, and bio-based products, aiming to reduce environmental impacts and promote economic efficiency. In turn, socio-environmental innovation involves the creation of innovative solutions that promote social and environmental well-being, going beyond the traditional development model. For the Alto Urupadí region, located in the municipality of Maués in Amazonas, where family farmers carry out the work of collecting and, often, rudimentary processing of the guaraná fruit, which is a product with a broad marketing perspective for local and national markets. and international, these two concepts are already a reality in the communities of this location. Because they converge in the search for more sustainable and resilient alternatives, integrating nature and society in a balanced way. In practice, the bioeconomy and socio-environmental innovation encourage the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices and the valorization of ecosystem services. These approaches not only seek to solve environmental challenges, but also foster economic opportunities, stimulating the creation of jobs, improving the quality of life, and strengthening family farming. Family farmers identified organic agriculture as a great opportunity to promote their economic and social development. In this sense, the study presents that socio-environmental technological innovation is feasible for the social, environmental, economic and governance sustainability practiced by social agents in their territories, through their empirical knowledge associated with the set of products, processes and services generated from the practices of production and commercialization of natural resources existing in the Urupadí Sustainable Business Network. To achieve this, it was necessary to understand the innovation process, its evolution and its environments; analyze the innovations arising from the guaraná bioeconomy, across the historical and geopolitical gradient, especially in the inventive territories of guaraná culture; describe the community and organizational innovation ecosystem constituted within the networks in the Upper Urupadí River; and finally present the potential of the local bioeconomy based on the experiences of socio-environmental innovation and social technologies, fostered by networks in the Upper Urupadí River. For home purposes, different methodologies were used. It is concluded that the bioeconomy and socio-environmental innovation through business networks represent paradigms that seek to harmonize economic progress with environmental preservation and the improvement of social conditions, contributing to a more equitable and sustainable future for these populations.