Across the Amazon basin, indigenous peoples have collected, produced and harvested myriad native products for millennia – from globally recognized commodities like cacao and Brazil nuts to countless lesser-known and emerging products like acai, camu camu, guayusa and sacha inchi. Click to read more.
Sustainable farming and wild collection of these products can make a big difference in the incomes of local communities and contribute to maintaining the over 2.4 million square kilometers of Amazon rainforest they control. Click to read more.
But despite growing interest from markets in sustainable sourcing of these sorts of products, it’s often difficult for indigenous producer organizations to connect with buyers, investors, funders and other potential partners. Click to read more.
Putting Amazon Indigenous Producers on the Map creates an open-access database to help facilitate better connections for indigenous producers, with input and data provided by indigenous organizations and collaborators from around the world. Click to read more.
This project is a joint effort of Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA) the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), EcoDecisión, Canopy Bridge and Forest Trends. Click to read more.