There is great potential for economic growth in the agricultural and agro-industrial sectors in Amapa due to the immense rainforest covering 81 per cent percent of the state (Governors' Task Force on Climate and Forestry, 2013). In total, the entire Amazon rainforest contributes 8 percent to Brazilian GDP (Homma, Alves, Franco, Pena & , 2012). “The state has a significant forest-based economic sector, extracting both timber and non-timber products (including açai, Brazil nuts and cipó titica)” (Governors’ Working Group on Forestry climate and forests, 2013). The vast Amapa rainforest has a huge store of value in its area and can be used to boost the economy. Amapa's exports mainly consist of timber, but this logging leads to many negative externalities (Fraser, Mollins, 2013). The agricultural and agroforestry sector accounts for 3.6 percent of Amapa's GDP, with most of the GDP actually driven by public spending. and the services sector (Governors’ Task Force on Climate and Forests, 2013). Sugar and ethanol have the greatest impact on the national agricultural sector, with sugarcane monoculture facilitated on 8.4 million hectares of land in Brazil (Mendonca et al., 2013). Brazil's 1.1 million sugarcane workers receive wages above the national minimum wage, plus an additional payment in terms of R$/ton of cane harvested (ibid.). Amapa is currently considered a developing state, with a poverty rate of 42 percent (Sustainable use of forest resources in the estuary floodplains in Amapá, 2009). The development of the sugar cane industry has the potential to deprive a large part of the population of Amapa of employment; the production area having increased from 5,625,300 hectares in 2003 to 8,368,400 hectares in 2012 (Mendonca et al., 2013). Stakehol...... middle of paper ....../bitstream/item/34907/1/DSMoreira.pdf7. Gonzalez, P., Kroll, B., and Vargas, C. (2014). Tropical rainforest biodiversity and above-ground carbon changes and uncertainties in the Selva Central, Peru. Ecology and forest management, 312, 78-91. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S03781127130068658. Governors' Working Group on Climate and Forests, (2013), Amapa, Brazil. Knowledge database, retrieved from http://www.gcftaskforce-database.org/StateOverview/Amapa9. Clay, J. (2004), Global agriculture and the environment: a product-by-product guide to impacts and practices. Retrieved from http://www.krishibid.com/ebook/1559633700.pdf10. Andersen, L, (1997), A cost-benefit analysis of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, Instituto de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada. Retrieved from http://repositorio.ipea.gov.br/bitstream/11058/2137/1/td_0455.pdf