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Invitation to Tender: Producing Right Platform Development for Aliança da Terra SA

Aliança da Terra SA (ATSA), a company located in Goiânia, Brazil, seeks to procure a consultancy company to provide hours of technical work on technology systems development and maintenance services (including all phases of the system life cycle) with the objective of increasing Producing Right Platform – PRP’s efficiency in collecting, analysing, managing, integrating and

A Year in Latin America: what have we learned to date?

Partnerships for Forests recently celebrated one year of implementation in Latin America. To mark the occasion, our regional office has released a report featuring our key learnings from the period, with a series of recommendations for both entrepreneurs and investors in the climate-smart land use sector in Colombia and Brazil. Read the report (English |

Invitation to Tender: Procurement for Auditor

Palladium seeks an Auditor to conduct the 2019 annual audit of the Partnerships for Forests programme. The publicly available Invitation to Tender (“ITT”) contains the Terms of Reference (“TOR”), the technical and financial selection criteria and the conditions of tender. Also available are the standard contract templates (subcontract agreement for contracting an organisation, and consultant agreement for contracting an

Invitation to Tender – COOPAVAM: Sales and Marketing Strategy development for Brazil nut processing cooperative

Palladium seeks to procure a consultancy company to develop a Sales and Marketing Strategy for COOPAVAM a Brazil nut processing cooperative in Northwest Mato Grosso State in Brazil. The objective is to develop a Sales and Marketing Strategy to enhance COOPAVAM’s ability to reach external markets and deal more effectively with more complex demands.

How coffee can save Ethiopia’s forests

Partnerships for Forests and TechnoServe are working together to protect Ethiopia’s ecologically unique and biodiverse habitats while increasing the livelihoods of forest coffee farmers. “We were handed the forest by our parents, and we must preserve it,” says Amanuel Trefe (pictured above, right), before setting off into the Gabrebecho Forest in western Ethiopia’s Kaffa zone.

Invitation to Tender – COOPAVAM: Indigenous Lands Territorial Management Plan

Palladium seeks to procure a consultancy company to develop Indigenous Environmental & Territorial Management Plans (PGTA), in four Indigenous Lands in Northwest Mato Grosso State, and Rondônia State, Brazil. The objective is to consolidate and expand the environmental impact Coopavam (a Brazilian rural settlers’ Cooperative) generates through the sustainable purchase of Brazil Nuts from these

Climate-Smart Lending Platform: New partnership offers technology and data-driven solutions for climate-resilient agri-lenders and farmers in East Africa

Katowice, Poland  Climate-Smart Lending Platform members, Financial Access Consulting Services B.V. (FACS) and F3 Life Limited have entered into a partnership with Partnerships for Forests to accelerate the provision of climate-smart loans to smallholder farmers in East Africa. Showcased today at the World Climate Summit 2018 – Investment COP in Katowice, Poland – which brought