Plant

Mangaba

Hancornia speciosa

Also known as: Hancornia speciosa, mangabeira

Mangaba (*Hancornia speciosa*) — a fragrant latex-bearing fruit of the open Cerrado and coastal tablelands, central to a women-led cooperative gathering tradition. 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.

Mangaba (Hancornia speciosa) is a fragrant latex-bearing fruit of the open Cerrado and coastal tablelands, central to a women-led cooperative gathering tradition.

What’s distinctive

Borne by a small latex-producing tree (the latex itself a minor rubber source), the mangaba is soft, fragrant and highly perishable, which has historically kept it a gathered rather than plantation crop. In several regions the catadoras de mangaba — women fruit-gatherers — have organised to defend access to wild stands, making mangaba a case where the fruit, the cooperative, and a land-rights movement are the same story.

Why this entry

The [[cerrado|Cerrado]] is being converted to soy and pasture faster than the Amazon is being cleared. The native-fruit cooperatives — [[central-do-cerrado|Central do Cerrado]] and others — are the economic argument that an unfelled savanna can pay. Mangaba is one of the species that argument runs on; it ties the [[extractivism|extractive economy]] to the [[geraizeiro|geraizeiro]], [[quilombola|quilombola]] and Indigenous communities who gather it.

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