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Together with our allies, we have drafted a call to action to save the world’s largest and most important rainforest.

In partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Rainforest Alliance is implementing the first phase of IDB’s Amazon Bioeconomy Marketplace (ABM) initiative to improve socioeconomic conditions, fight climate change, and help restore ecosystems in the Amazon by supporting the identification and growth of export-oriented sustainable bio-businesses. Through training and technical assistance activities on sustainability …

Advancing Sustainable Landscapes In The Andean Amazon

The Center for International Forestry Research created a methodology to disseminate information about the production and marketing of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) to improve the livelihoods of small, isolated landowners and promote biodiversity conservation in the Brazilian Amazon. With support from the Rainforest Alliance’s Kleinhans Fellowship, this project aimed to make market research available to …

As part of the Rainforest Alliance’s Kleinhans Fellowship, researchers with Indiana University and Universidade Federal do Acre (UFAC) in Brazil examined the importance of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) for supporting family income and promoting forest conservation in the western Amazon. The project compared seven sites representing one extractive reserve, three agro-extractive settlements, and three colonization …

The Business Case and Investment Opportunities for the Public and Private Sectors to Restore Degraded Ranching Lands In Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, and across the Amazon, there is a growing trend to restore degraded lands to productive uses as part of the agendas for national economic development and climate change mitigation.

There is a growing global crisis that threatens our future: the rampant destruction of rainforests around the world. These vital ecosystems not only support millions of Indigenous and forest people and countless plant and animal species—they are also our most powerful natural defense against climate change. But in the face of this devastation, there is …

The Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil evaluated the motivations, opportunities, problems, and consequences of trade partnerships or agreements established between forest communities and corporations, for the commercialization of non-timber forest products (NTFPs). Ongoing corporate-community partnerships at both the community and corporate level were examined, as well as policies that could prompt beneficial impacts while …