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An agricultural engineer, Pinto studied the islanders’ farming practice, compared crops and set up a scheme supported by Fase to carry out an expert appraisal. His ideas were well received and at the end of the first year the community decided to change the design of the macapis, the tubular cages used to catch prawn. The gap between the slats was enlarged to a centimetre, enabling baby prawns to slip through, thus improving stocks.

Collective work … on the Amazon estuary near Macapa. Photo: Gary Calton