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Project

Banco do Brasil Foundation – Amazon Fund

Fundação Banco do Brasil (FBB)

Project official website
Total project value
R$ 23,482,372.86
Total support amount
US$ 7,306,715.21
Contracted

Presentation

Objective

To provide support to projects that make it feasible to develop production activities in accordance with conservation and the sustainable use of the Amazon Biome

Beneficiary

Traditional communities in the Amazon (indigenous groups, remaining slave-communities [quilombos], rubber tappers and river-dweller that survive off fishing and family farming etc.); family farmers, rural workers involved in settlement projects, low-income population or those at risk of social exclusion in the Amazon Biome region; as well as collective undertakings and/or solidarity economies, non-profit institutions governed under private law, public administration entities directly or indirectly linked to municipal, state or federal governments, besides research support foundations

Territorial scope

Amazon Biome

Description

CONTEXTUALIZATION 

The Banco do Brasil Foundation (FBB) began operations in February 1988 aimed at financing projects in a wide array of areas, such as foodstuffs, health, education, employment and housing. It operates in the entire national territory by developing, implementing, accompanying and assessing programs and projects in partnership with other governmental and non-governmental institutions.

The foundation focuses on the social pyramid, specifically the public prioritized in public policies, including indigenous communities, former slave communities [quilombolas] and those in Agrarian Reform settlements. Standing out in the strategic aims is the development of initiatives within the scope of solidarity economies and efforts through multiplying programs that ramp upscale, bringing about social impact in the regions and communities they operate in.

THE PROJECT

The project is part of a technical and financial cooperation proposal between the Amazon Fund and the FBB, aimed at supporting projects that help develop production activities in accordance with conservation and the sustainable use of the Amazon Biome.

Efforts to receive support will be chosen by the foundation based on a territorial diagnosis and on the feasibility and relevance of their application and development. For this, the FBB will engage in dialogue with the local communities to assist in several stages of the process.

With this, it is expected that support will be offered to subprojects such as those structuring solidarity undertakings in production activities in the region, namely, açaí berries, cupuaçu fruit, Brazil nuts, bananas, cocoa, beekeeping, fish farming, babaçu berries, guarana berries, oils and essences, cassava root, passion fruit, local fishing, rubber, arts and crafts and agroecology.

Social technologies are expected to be re-applied in several areas, for example, food safety, recovery of degraded areas, rational management and the use of soil in agroforestry systems, as well as support for efforts aimed at land-title regularization and environmental licensing, sustainable forest management, reforestation, forest certification and recovery of deforested areas.

INTERVENTION LOGIC

The project is part of 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.

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Evolution

Date of approval 05.15.2012
Date of the contract 06.18.2012
Disbursement period 96 months (from the date the contract was signed)
approval
05.15.2012
award
06.18.2012
conclusion

Disbursement

date amount
1º disbursements 02.15.2013 R$4,237,534.45
2º disbursements 04.25.2013 R$1,881,051.10
3º disbursements 12.26.2013 R$568,400.00
4º disbursements 03.27.2014 R$1,479,713.90
5º disbursements 12.26.2014 R$1,354,747.35
6º disbursements 01.26.2015 R$1,378,627.19
7º disbursements 02.12.2015 R$753,318.98
8º disbursements 10.28.2015 R$2,862,127.46
Total amount disbursed R$14,515,520.43

Total amount disbursed in relation to the Amazon Fund’s support

100%

ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED

Thirty-two subprojects received our support. These were carried out by 28 institutions, spread out across seven states in the Amazon and more than 40 municipalities, benefiting 17,182 participants. The supported subprojects are aimed at assisting family farmers, agrarian-reform settlers, indigenous peoples and extractivists with the structuring of their productive activities, enabling the processing and/or commercialization of agro-extractive products. They also aimed at strengthening initiatives in agroecology, extractivism and organic production networks.

8,856 people were benefit from the subprojects of which 2,625 were women and 3,122 indigenous.

The following actions in support of indigenous ethnic groups are highlighted:

  • development of the organic nut production chain in the states of Rondônia and Mato Grosso, in communities linked to the Gavião, Arara, Cinta Larga and Zóro ethnic groups;
  • support for sustainable income generation among Kayapó communities – by enabling the formation of a Brazil nut stock and by strengthening the cumaru and cocoa production chains;
  • strengthening of sustainable socioproduction experiences in Alto Juruá (Acre), with the construction of 28 ponds for the development of fish-farming activities associated with agroforestry systems in the Kaxinawá/Ashaninka TIs of Rio do Breu and in the Kampa lands of Rio Amônia.

The following actions in support of agrarian-reform settlers and other family farmers are highlighted:

  • implementation of 315 Integrated and Sustainable Agroecological Production (Pais) social technology units in the states of Tocantins, Rondônia, Roraima and Acre, encouraging the practice of pesticide-free, organic agriculture;
  • implantation of a small agro-industry in a Rondônia settlement, benefiting the sustainable management of the babassu productive chain;
  • implantation of a nursery for native fruit trees in Rondônia;
  • support for agricultural production, processing and distribution in the Vila Amazônia settlement project in Parintins (AM) and in the Santo Antônio do Murituba community (PA);
  • technical and administrative structuring of the organic guaraná production chain in Rondônia, with reactivation of a small guaraná agribusiness;
  • development of the organic and shade-grown coffee productive chain in Rondônia;
  • development of the honey production chain in Roraima, including training beekeepers, implementing the honey house and obtaining the state inspection seal;
  • implementation of a fruit pulp processing unit in the municipality of Manicoré (AM).

The Support Center for Research and Continuing Education (Napec) subproject systematized the activities of three networks participating in the Ecoforte program: the Maniva Agroecology Network (AM), the Bico Agroecological Network (TO) and the Encauchados Network (PA). These experiences - which results in a growing appreciation for agrobiodiversity, an increase in the scale of production and processing flows, the opening of new commercialization channels in close relationship with consumers, and the adoption of participatory organic-production certification - comprise the book “Agroecology Networks for Territorial Development: Teachings from the Ecoforte Program.” 

It is also worth mentioning: 

  • The systematization of three territorial networks of agroecology in the Amazon, all participants of the 2014 Ecoforte Redes Notice 20142: Rede Maniva de Agroecologia (AM), Rede Encauchados (PA) and Rede Bico Agroecológico (TO). These experiences - which results in a growing appreciation for agrobiodiversity, an increase in the scale of production and processing flows, the opening of new commercialization channels in close relationship with consumers, and the adoption of participatory organic-production certification - comprise the book “Agroecology Networks for Territorial Development: Teachings from the Ecoforte Program”;
  • The production of bulletins on social technologies developed and/or implemented collectively within the territorial networks of agroecology that were distributed in exchange and training activities in their territories. 

PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS OF FBB IN IMPLEMENTING THE PROJECT

 

Supported organizations

Main Activities

Location

State

Support Amount (R$)

1

Articulação Central das Associações Rurais de Ajuda Mútua (Acaram) 

Agroecology

Machadinho D'Oeste, Espigão D'Oeste, Novo Horizonte do Oeste

RO

1.185.127,00

2

Associação Agroextrativista da Reserva Extrativista do Rio Liberdade (Real)

Açaí berries, buriti, copaíba and cipó unha de gato

 

Cruzeiro do Sul

AC

498.900,68

3

Associação Ashaninka do Rio Amônia (Apiwtxa)

Agroecology and fish farming

Marechal Thaumaturgo

AC

1.479.713,90

4

Associação de Desenvolvimento Comunitário do Santo Antônio do Murituba (Asdecosam) 

Family farming

Parintins

AM

557.531,04

5

Associação de Moradores e Trabalhadores em Produtos da Cadeia da Sociobiodiversidade dos Médio e Baixo Rios Cajari e Muriacá em Atividade na Reserva Extrativista do Rio Cajari/AP (Aciobio) 

Manioc flour and others 

Laranjal do Jari, Vitória do Jari, Mazagão

AP

364.020,79

6

Associação de Mulheres Agroextrativistas do Alto Cajari (Amac)

Brazil nut

Laranjal do Jari

AP

451.840,00

7

Associação de Proteção a Vida e Defesa dos Direitos Humanos (Aprovida)

Agroecology

Pequizeiro, Couto de Magalhães, Bernardo Sayão, Colinas do Tocantins

TO

1.550.352,78

8

Associação dos Moradores Agroextrativistas do Cajari (Amaex-Ca)

Açaí berries, fish and other products

 

Mazagão

AP

260.413,00

9

Associação dos Produtores Agroextrativistas da Assembleia de Deus do Rio Ituxi (Apadrit)

 

Forest timber management

Labrea

AM

449.817,89

10

Associação dos Produtores Agroextrativistas da Colônia do Sardinha (Aspacs) 

Brazil nut

Labrea

AM

447.000,00

11

Associação dos Produtores Rurais de Carauari (Asproc)

Fish

Carauari

AM

450.000,00

Fish

Carauari

AM

600.000,00

12

Associação dos Usuários da Reserva Extrativista Marinha de Viseu Piriá-Gurupi (Assuremav)

Crab sustainable management and other products  

 

Viseu

PA

296.942,82

13

Associação Floresta Protegida (AFP)

Brazil nut, cumaru and cacao

São Félix do Xingu

PA

566.747,93

14

Associação Setentrional de Apicultores de Roraima (ASA) 

Beekeeping

Boa Vista

RR

247.057,93

15

Cooperativa Agroextrativista do Mapiá e Médio Purus (Cooperar)

Native cacao and forest timber management

 

Labrea, Boca do Acre, Pauini

AM

436.086,80

16

 Cooperativa dos Hortifrutigranjeiros de Boa Vista (Coophorta)

Family farming

Boa Vista, Mucajai, Amajari, Pacaraíma, Iracema, Alto Alegre, Normandia, Uiramuta, Caracaraí, São Luiz, Rorainópolis, São João da Baliza, Caroebe, Bonfim, Canta

RR

956.402,74

17

Cooperativa dos Produtores Agropecuários e Extrativistas dos Recursos Naturais do Município de Manicoré (Coopema)

Fruit pulp

Manicoré

AM

1.354.747,35

18

Cooperativa dos Produtores Rurais Organizados para Ajuda Mútua (Coocaram)

Organic and shade-grown  coffee cultivation

Vale do Anari, Mirante da Serra, Alto Paraíso, Jí-Paraná, Monte Negro, Alvorada do Oeste, São Miguel do Guaporé, Nova Brasilândia D'Oeste, Cacoal, Seringueiras

RO

1.500.967,70

Organic Guarana

Machadinho D'Oeste, Vale do Anari, Alto Paraíso, Jí-Paraná

RO

578.883,60

Brazil nut

Juina, Aripuana, Rondonópolis, Alto Paraíso, Jí-Paraná, São Miguel do Guaporé, Seringueiras

MT e RO

908.834,50

19

Cooperativa Mista Agroextrativista do Rio Unini (Coomaru)

 

Brazil nut

Barcelos

AM

449.999,21

20

Cooperativa Mista da Flona Tapajós

Forest timber management

Belterra

PA

447.679,44

21

Cooperativa Mista dos produtores e Extrativistas do Rio Iratapuru (Comaru)

Brazil nut

Laranjal do Jari

AP

753.318,98

22

Instituto Raoni

Brazil nut, cumaru and cacao

Novo Progresso, Colider, Guaranta do Norte, Matupa, Peixoto de Azevedo, São José do Xingu

MT

977.053,78

23

Museu da Amazônia (Musa)

Agroecology e meliponiculture

 

Manaus

AM

1.248.716,17

24

Núcleo de Apoio à Pesquisa e Educação Continuada

Agroecology

Rio de Janeiro

RJ

798.848,30

25

Organização Raiz Nativa – O.R.N

Plant nursery and fruit and native tree seedlings

 

Porto Velho

RO

393.333,00

Babassu palm tree

Porto Velho

RO

887.500,00

26

Polo de Proteção da Biodiversidade e Uso Sustentável dos Recursos Naturais (Poloprobio)

 

Agroecology and natural rubber

Castanhal

PA

1.247.735,53

27

Serviço de Apoio às Micro e Pequenas Empresas em Roraima – Sebrae/RR

 

Agroecology

Boa Vista

RR

568.400,00

28

Serviço de Apoio às Micro e Pequenas Empresas em Roraima  - Sebrae/AC

Agroecology

Rio Branco, Porto Acre, Bujari, Acrelândia, Cruzeiro do Sul, Porto Walter, Marechal Taumaturgo, Rodrigues Alves, Mancio Lima

AC

568.400,00

 

TOTAL 

     

22.364.095,05

Final Evaluation

Collection

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