This case study explores the efforts to assess açaí’s potential, back local enterprises in Colombia’s Amazon and Pacific regions, analyse national and international market trends, and assist in designing optimal fruit harvesting regulations in Colombia.
Theme: Indigenous communities
Enhancing inclusive business models: A global overview of nature-based businesses supported by Partnerships for Forests
The methodology for this case study was developed by the MEL Committee and features inclusive business models that inherently deliver social utility, with the potential to inspire other businesses to adopt more inclusive practices.
Guidelines for establishing collective forest enterprises: The case of Équateur Province in DRC
Through the allocation of ‘Community Forests’, local Bantu and Indigenous groups living in forest settings within DRC can obtain perpetual rights over their traditional lands, as well as the ability to manage them for a diversity of purposes, including conservation, agriculture, fishing and smallscale logging.
Registering biodiversity products to access new international markets: The case of Baru nut registry in the UK and EU
The project focused on registering the Baru nut in the UK and EU, while disseminating knowledge to a broader ecosystem of non-timber forest product (NTFP) initiatives.
Webinar: Registering new biodiversity products in international markets
This webinar shares the lessons learned from the registration process of Baru nuts in the EU and UK, revealing the path to be taken by any other bioeconomy unregistered product.
Forests for the Future: P4F key achievements and learnings across six years in Latin America
The objective of P4F in Latin America has been centred on fostering and expanding innovative land use businesses and testing ideas from across the nature-based solutions arena. This report aims to disseminate the key learnings and insights acquired throughout the last six years of the programme.
A needs-based leadership programme with and for women in the bioeconomy sector
She Leads is a capacity building programme designed in response to the challenges faced by women leaders in the Brazilian bioeconomy sector. The programme was initiated by Partnerships for Forests (P4F) as part of its Gender Equality and Social Inclusion approach in Latin America.
Sustainable timber production in Peru – P4F and Form International
The video “Sustainable timber production in Peru” shows how Form International, with the support of P4F, is consolidating a business model that offers a profitable alternative to the recovery of degraded land, particularly due to cattle ranching and monocultures, in the Ucayali region of Peru.
Amazon communities supplying native fruits to large anchor companies: The case of AJE Group in Peru
P4F has supported several value chain actors to scale a community-focused and sustainable superfood juice to a transparent and resilient value chain which provides the local and indigenous Amazonian communities with an income source, and protects forests and biodiversity.
Promoting gender equity and forest conservation through enhancing non-timber forest product value chains: Lessons from the Ba’ka Project in Cameroon
The case study explores P4F’s support to strengthen both the supply and demand aspects of the NTFP market to improve the financial and social position of women and indigenous NTFP collectors in Cameroon.
