After just over a year of work, production is expected to double.

“We have already produced 680 kilos [1,500 pounds] of honey and expect to reach 1,300 kilos [2,870 lbs] by the end of 2023. We plan to grow our team and our production every year,” Miranda says.

The #honey is sold at farmers’ markets in the city of #Nioaque and in the Indigenous territory, and there are plans to include the honey in Indigenous school lunch programs.

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The #Nioaque Indigenous Territory in Brazil’s #MatoGrossoDoSul state is home to some 2,000 #Terena people living in four villages. The territory spans some 3,000 hectares (7,400 acres) of the Cerrado, the world’s most biodiverse — but also most threatened — savanna biome.

In the Terena village of #ÁguaBranca, residents are working on ways to preserve that biodiversity while also improving their own welfare —

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