Plant
Baru
Dipteryx alata
Also known as: Dipteryx alata, dipteryx-alata, baru almond, cumbaru
Baru (*Dipteryx alata*) — the 'Cerrado almond' — the nutritious roasted seed of a nitrogen-fixing savanna legume tree, one of the biome's most marketable cooperative products. A wild-harvested Cerrado native and a pillar of the biome's native-fruit cooperative economy, the standing-tree alternative to soy and cattle conversion.
Baru (Dipteryx alata) is the ‘Cerrado almond’ — the nutritious roasted seed of a nitrogen-fixing savanna legume tree, one of the biome’s most marketable cooperative products.
What’s distinctive
A leguminous tree that fixes nitrogen and resprouts after fire. The pod’s sweet pulp feeds cattle and wildlife; inside is a single almond-like seed that, roasted, rivals tree nuts in protein and unsaturated oil. Baru has become the Cerrado’s flagship export-grade cooperative product — high value per kilo, storable, and harvested from standing trees, which makes a living tree worth more than cleared pasture.
Why this entry
The Cerrado is being converted to soy and pasture faster than the Amazon is being cleared. The native-fruit cooperatives — Central do Cerrado and others — are the economic argument that an unfelled savanna can pay. Baru is one of the species that argument runs on; it ties the extractive economy to the geraizeiro, quilombola and Indigenous communities who gather it.
See also
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- Substrate of: extractivism
- Shares approach with: baru
- Member of: plants
- Contained by: cerrado
- Stewarded by: quilombola
- Produced by: central-do-cerrado
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Practical
shares approach with
- Baru Cerrado native-fruit cooperative crop — a standing-tree economy against conversion
- Cagaita Cerrado native-fruit cooperative crop — a standing-tree economy against conversion
- Jatobá Cerrado native-fruit cooperative crop — a standing-tree economy against conversion
- Mangaba Cerrado native-fruit cooperative crop — a standing-tree economy against conversion
- Pequi Cerrado native-fruit cooperative crop — a standing-tree economy against conversion
produces
- Central do Cerrado aggregates and markets baru, pequi, and other native-fruit products from member groups
substrate of
- Cerrado the 'Cerrado almond' — flagship export-grade cooperative product
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