NORMAS QUE REGULAMENTAM A EXPORTAÇÃO APÍCOLA DO BRASIL PARA A BOLÍVIA

Abstract

This research was based on an analysis of the laws and regulations that regulate beekeeping in Brazil and Bolivia, seeking a new perspective related to exports, which will provide an option for increasing income for small rural producers. It can also be considered as an instrument for the protection and conservation of the Pantanal region, since beekeeping has this main characteristic. This research addressed three main issues: social, environmental and economic, which act to include invisible groups. The social issue that affects the region's residents, enabling extra income through beekeeping. The environmental issue is presented showing the importance of the bee for the ecosystem, which in the region suffers from abandonment and the lack of public policies for its protection. In the economic sphere, beekeeping is an opportunity to increase income for a population that receives little assistance from the national economic system. The laws and regulations that govern beekeeping activity need to be revised, but include in this process the participation of the main interested party, the beekeeper, giving them the opportunity to present themselves and receive training to carry out work that is necessary and that must be demystified. Bureaucracy allows exclusion to be maintained rather than social inclusion, it prevents visibility, mutual learning and even the continued exclusion of a class that works with one of the most important assets on the planet, nature. Listening to public authorities, traders and beekeepers, the research can expose three points of view: that of possibility, that of opportunity and that of service, resulting in a possible partnership that boosts the beekeeping sector.