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Maguey do Cerrado is a local Agave ecotype, source of foods and biomass, that through an interaction with the environment requires less volume of water for its development.
[caption id="attachment_655" align="aligncenter" width="606"] Among the food uses of the Maguey the most important is the obtaining of the sap. Used for centuries by Mesoamerican peoples as an energy drink, with reports of its extraction recorded in the pre-Columbian codices. The ...más ↓
INVITATION | CONVITE
Maguey do Cerrado is a local Agave ecotype, source of foods and biomass, that through an interaction with the environment requires less volume of water for its development.
[caption id="attachment_655" align="aligncenter" width="606"] Among the food uses of the Maguey the most important is the obtaining of the sap. Used for centuries by Mesoamerican peoples as an energy drink, with reports of its extraction recorded in the pre-Columbian codices. The sap that accumulates in the plant stem is abundant in carbohydrates such as inulin, sucrose and fructose and is a rich substrate for the fermentation and formulation of various products such as: energy drinks, dairy drinks, concentrated sweeteners, functional ferments, probiotics and distillates.[/caption]
The Maguey do Cerrado Products Platform is a collective, independent and collaborative project which unites people around a common idea: the production of foods through an ethical and healthy development system, with ecological and technologic production methods.
The local development project proposes the rescue of a traditional experience that, potentialized by Research and Development, enables the production of foods and biomass with sustainable bases in balance with nature.
Designed to be executed by small urban and rural farmers, it can be replicated in environments with water restriction, not just in Brazil but other parts of the world.
[caption id="attachment_565" align="aligncenter" width="949"] Urban permaculture project for sustainable local development[/caption]