CONTEXTUALIZATION

Considering that a large portion of smallholder farms in Rondônia have environmental liabilities, there is a high demand for vegetation restoration associated with the structuring of productive chains. The project aims to support value chains such as cocoa and açaí, which have strong potential for development and income generation in the region, and can therefore be widely used in environmental compliance actions for rural properties under the Forest Code.

The project’s coverage area includes municipalities located along the BR-364 corridor, a region that concentrates the majority of Rondônia’s smallholder farms and accounts for 85% of the state’s cocoa production. Given the high market demand for quality cocoa beans with traceability, the project will also invest in appropriate actions and infrastructure to support the production of these beans.

As a strategic approach, the project seeks to integrate cocoa and açaí production with banana cultivation. Banana is a crop with strong regional potential and a short production cycle, allowing farmers to generate income throughout the year, including during the initial development phase of cocoa or açaí crops.

THE PROJECT

The project aims to structure bioeconomy-related value chains through the environmental compliance of smallholder farms, employing agroforestry systems to restore areas that are non-compliant with the Forest Code.

Below is a summary table with the project components and the main deliverables of each one:

INTERVENTION LOGIC

This project falls under the “Sustainable Production” (1), Monitoring and Control (2), and Land and Territorial Planning (3) components of the logical framework of the Amazon Fund, Contributing to the direct effects of the Amazon Fund’s Logical Framework in the following thematic areas: (1) Sustainable Production, (2) Monitoring and Control, and (3) Land and Territorial Planning, specifically: (1.3) Strengthened managerial and technical capacities for implementing sustainable forest and biodiversity-based economic activities; (1.4) Deforested and degraded areas recovered and used for economic purposes and ecological conservation; (2.2) Expanded access for rural producers to the environmental regularization of their properties; (3.3) Increased areas of land with regularized land tenure status.