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Paper short abstract:

The Amazon region has a history of having its territory encroached upon by outside agents seeking natural resources (Ravena & Marin, 2013). This paper discusses the Bioeconomy and Carbon Market as new paradigms that facilitate the intrusion into Amazon's traditional territories.

Paper long abstract:

As a neoliberal program, Payments for Environmental Services (PES) has emerged as a global initiative, often imposed from above in the Global South. This paper highlights how Indigenous and traditional communities assert their autonomy by resisting the encroachment of intermediaries seeking to exploit their territories for bioeconomy actives and carbon markets. Developing a digital platform in a data co-production strategy with scholars and sectoral bureaucracies, traditional people influence the public policy cycle, compelling both the state and the market to adhere to their environmental protocols. Divided into three major fields, the perspectives of the Bioeconomy presented a lexical convergence around the prefix “bio”, but they differ substantially from the point of view of the conception regarding the suffix “economy”(Birch, 2013; Bugge et al., 2016; Philp, 2018). The Bioeconomy and the carbon market constitute new and unfamiliar institutional arrangements for traditional peoples, communities, and bureaucracies. The latter requires knowledge and expertise to develop sectoral policies for both fields based on these market arrangements. In this direction, the paradigm of missions oriented towards the creation of public value (Kattel, Mazzucato, 2018) gains weight, which allows the co-production strategy to incorporate public agents (Ostrom, 2005; Halfat, Martin 2015; Kattel et al., 2019) who will ultimately be responsible, given their participation in the co-production of data, for the inclusion of the indigenous and traditional communities in the design and implementation of public policies aimed at these territories.