**7. Future perspective, industrial, therapeutics and sustainability applications**

It becomes important to envision the perspective of promoting the integration of academic studies and the industry for the joint development of strategies using the species mentioned, in order to bring together objectives and set concrete goals for possible application, thus contributing to the increasing number of alternatives such as these arrive at the final development, with economic gain, valorization of the local component, academic contribution and for the general community, culminating in added value in conjunction with sustainable development strategies. Which is a necessity imposed by our current reality [67].

For example, the products that have the grape, as its raw material, in addition to wines, are items of high added value, highlighting the participation of grape juice, these products can provide good responses at the commercial and economic level [60]. However, the large scale of production ends up generating waste, which can also be reprocessed for other applications, becoming sustainable alternatives for local development, including the generation of food alternatives, such as the production of flour, also rich in phenolic compounds, with good sensory acceptability and largescale applicability [68, 69].

Within this context, a major transformation occurred in the so-called São Francisco Valley, in northeastern Brazil and also inserted within the extension where the caatinga grows. From irrigation strategies, this region became one of the main producers of grapes and wines in the country, also participating in exportation in this area, promoting the addition of economic value to that region, generating employment and development This demonstrates that with the correct investment, the region in which the caatinga is located can, with its own means, grow and develop, also in a sustainable way, since production can reuse all waste associated with the production chain [54].

And this theme can be highlighted considering the following situations: 1. The caatinga region can use these resources sustainably in order to guarantee the livelihood of the families that are inserted in this context. 2. The presence of finished products on the pharmaceutical market, either as medicines or as functional foods, makes it clear that these species can be applied for these purposes, adding value. 3. There is a need to expand studies that promote the visibility of this region in general, as there are still unexplored potentials [69, 70].

*Brazilian Caatinga: Phenolic Contents, Industrial and Therapeutic Applications DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.99223*
