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: Wild forest economy
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.
Reviving Colombian Forests: Ecohome’s soapnut revolution
This video explores how natural cleaning product company Ecohome is creating a new model for sourcing ingredients that has a positive impact on forests and farmers in Colombia.
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.
Investing in the sustainable conservation of Coffea arabica: How Ethiopia can derive economic value from nature
This policy brief takes lessons from a study into the economic values of Coffea arabica biodiversity in Ethiopia and provides actionable steps that the Ethiopian government can take to enhance forest coffee and the economy around it.
Conexsus: Unlocking exports of Brazilian non-timber forest products
This case study shares findings from a Partnerships for Forests (P4F) supported project in Brazil aimed to facilitate access to foreign markets for rural and forest small and medium enterprises which are primarily owned or led by women and traditional communities.
How policy and regulations can promote sustainable forest-focused businesses in Colombia
This case study shares lessons from efforts, supported by Partnerships for Forests, that contributed to an updated Colombian decree providing a legal framework for the production of non-timber forest products (NTFPs).
Enhancing resilience of forest-based businesses: strengthening value chains as a support strategy during crises
The report brings together key lessons from forest product businesses in the Amazon that have put COVID-19 adaptation strategies into action.
