Projeto Amana

Amana aims to diversify value chains and products through sustainable agroforestry, enhancing biodiversity, climate change resilience, and income generation. Simultaneously, it will develop NTFPs economies and markets by directing resources toward financing, capacity building, market access and infrastructure for smallholder cooperatives. Currently, the project is mapping land access, beneficiary communities, value chains and potential NTFP markets. In addition, the project will engage beneficiaries and stakeholders to design a farmer/cooperative-centered strengthening program. Amana is coordinated by MCW Consultoria (social bioeconomy specialist), fiscally sponsored by Welight Institute, and supported by the Transformational Investment in Food Systems (TIFS) initiative. It was conceived during a Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio convening in July 2024. The Amana Project intends to be a lighthouse, replicating its action structure in other forest landscapes to inspire the combination of agroforestry and sustainable management of non-timber forest products.