Amazon Fund

Project selected in the first Amazon Fund’s direct public call-to-submission of sustainable productive projects

CONTEXTUALIZATION

The project covers municipalities in the region near the Juruá River, in the state of Acre, and the south of the Amazon, which forms a corridor with similar forest resources (wild cocoa, nuts and rubber), in an area stretching over approximately 206,000 km². SOS Amazon has been working in these municipalities to develop socio-biodiversity product chains, together with nine extractivist organizations, involving close to 5,100 families.

THE PROJECT

This project aims to disseminate and provide support for entrepreneurial initiatives in nine partner institutions to generate jobs and income through the sustainable development of value chains of vegetable oils, wild cocoa and rubber, in six municipalities in the state of Acre and in four in the state of Amazonas.

The communities that will receive support all have similar forest resources (wild cocoa, nuts and rubber) and, except for the municipality of Silves, in the state of Amazonas, all are part of a corridor formed by the municipalities in the region of the Juruá River, in the state of Acre, and the south of the Amazon.

INTERVENTION LOGIC

The project falls within the "Sustainable Production" (1) component of the Amazon Fund's Logical Framework. 

Click on the following image to view its objectives tree, that is, how the project's outputs and linked to the expected outcomes and impact.

ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED

The project held 109 workshops on management and good production practices, attended by 700 community members.

More than 3,000 Technical Assistance and Rural Extension (Ater) visits were made focused on extractive production, benefitting 800 families. The project also organized 140 awareness-raising events for production improvement.

Also noteworthy were 10 exchange programs with the participation of 150 community members.

Six organizations benefited from forest inventories and four management plans totaling over 50,000 hectares of preserved forest area.

At BIOFACH 2018, the annual organic products fair in Germany, four business partnerships were established and another two are in negotiation.

Four organizations were audited for organic certification of extractive products.

Forty-nine FDL rubber processing plants were set up and four oil mills, two soap factories and four pre-processing facilities were improved and/or completed.

Production increased significantly with project execution: (i) vegetable oils rose from 3.1 tonnes/year (t/y) in 2014 to 20 t/y in 2017; (ii) rubbers (FDL, CVP and FSA) increased from 7.3 t y in 2014 to 32 t/y in 2017; (iii) and native cacao went from 1.03 t/y in 2014 to 10 t/y in 2017. Total gross revenue increased from R$ 78,000.00 (2014) to R$ 1,106,000 (2018) with the sales of extractive products.

PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS OF SOS AMAZON ASSOCIATION IN IMPLEMENTING THE PROJECT