Our Partners
Our partnerships are long-term and are based on common aims, shared responsibility and reciprocity – a fundamental value between indigenous peoples.
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Our partners are stewards of the Amazon rainforest and its biodiversity: indigenous communities, smallholder farmers, indigenous and other forest people's social enterprises, responsible processors and aggregators, direct-trade and purpose-driven and ethical companies, local NGOs, foundations and impact investors. Some of the organisations we partner and collaborate with include:
Cepro Yanesha is an indigenous cooperative representing more than 117 Yanesha coffee farmers from seven communities located in the Oxapampa-Ashaninka-Yanesha Biosphere Reserve in Pasco region in Peru.
AFIMAD is an indigenous forestry organization harvesting Brazil nuts directly from the forest. It represents eight communities and works with more than 200 indigenous producers in the region of Madre de Dios in Peru.
Eco Ola delivers regenerative and sustainably produced amazonian superfoods that are delicious, healthy, and done right. Eco Ola maintains the highest standards of excellence in how they grow food, how they treat their partner farmers, how they interact with the environment, and how they deliver food to you.
Imlak’esh Organics is a direct-trade functional foods company building an ethical bridge between small-scale farmers and the global marketplace through positive impact on agriculture and human health, positive impact on carbon sequestration, reforestation, living wages, gender & racial equality, and education.
We collaborate with Rabo Foundation, a leading impact financier working with small-scale farmers around the world. By working together, we are increasing both the availability of trade finance and technical assistance to indigenous cooperatives in the Amazon.
We are development partners of Advocates for International Development (A4ID). A4ID provide us with invaluable pro-bono legal support through its top-quality legal partners.
Our partners are stewards of the Amazon rainforest and its biodiversity: indigenous communities, smallholder farmers, indigenous and other forest people's social enterprises, responsible processors and aggregators, direct-trade and purpose-driven and ethical companies, local NGOs, foundations and impact investors. Some of the organisations we partner and collaborate with include:
Cepro Yanesha is an indigenous cooperative representing more than 117 Yanesha coffee farmers from seven communities located in the Oxapampa-Ashaninka-Yanesha Biosphere Reserve in Pasco region in Peru.
AFIMAD is an indigenous forestry organization harvesting Brazil nuts directly from the forest. It represents eight communities and works with more than 200 indigenous producers in the region of Madre de Dios in Peru.
Eco Ola delivers regenerative and sustainably produced amazonian superfoods that are delicious, healthy, and done right. Eco Ola maintains the highest standards of excellence in how they grow food, how they treat their partner farmers, how they interact with the environment, and how they deliver food to you.
Wiñak is an indigenous association of more than 50 Kichwa communities living in the Ecuadorian Amazon. They produce and export Guayusa to the US market, cacao to Europe and commercialise organic bananas locally. All their production is based on the indigenous chagra system which secures families' food autonomy and protects the forest.
RONAP is a small association of wild Brazil nut harvesters from the Madre de Dios region of Peru exporting to the US market. Their members are also implementing cacao plantations to complement their incomes. RONAP is fully committed with forest conservation and biodiversity monitoring.
Imlak’esh Organics is a direct-trade functional foods company building an ethical bridge between small-scale farmers and the global marketplace through positive impact on agriculture and human health, positive impact on carbon sequestration, reforestation, living wages, gender & racial equality, and education.
Our Collaborators
RPCK, a leader in the Impact Investing Space, is our legal advisor in the US. RPCK advises many of the leading impact investors on ground-breaking, multiple-bottom line transactions around the world and fund managers on a wide variety of novel, innovative and catalytic capital structures.
We are development partners of Advocates for International Development (A4ID). A4ID provide us with invaluable pro-bono legal support through its top-quality legal partners.
We collaborate with Rabo Foundation, a leading impact financier working with small-scale farmers around the world. By working together, we are increasing both the availability of trade finance and technical assistance to indigenous cooperatives in the Amazon.
Awards
The ImpactAssets 50™ is the most recognized free database of impact investment fund managers. Fund managers selected to the IA 50 demonstrate a wide range of impact investing activities across geographies, sectors and asset classes. The IA 50 Emerging Impact Manager list spotlights newer fund managers to watch that may demonstrate future potential to create meaningful impact.
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The Transformative 25 is a regular list of funds, banks and initiatives that are demonstrating the power of integrated capital that is designed to reimagine the finance system to work for people and planet.
The 2022 list includes visionary changemaking fund managers who envision a new economy, creating new paths for aligning capital with racial, gender and environmental justice.
AIV is a proud winner of the Tropical Forest Commodities Challenge for finding innovative solutions to shift global production and trade of agricultural commodities away from the clearing of land while ensuring sustainable livelihoods.
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The challenge was organised by the Up-Link World Economic Forum and the Tropical Forest Alliance, in collaboration with the UN Climate Change Conference UK 2021 and FACT Dialogue.
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AIV received the award during the COP26 in Glasgow.
Memberships, signatories and commitments
We are proud members of the Coalition for Private Investment in Conservation (CPIC), a group of private and public sector financial institutions, leading civil society organizations and academia working to deliver a material increase in private, return-seeking investment in conservation.
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AIV are members of the Coalición por una producción sostenible. The Coalition for Sustainable Production is a multi-stakeholder space that promotes the creation of alliances between private sector, civil society, governments and indigenous peoples to transition towards deforestation-free supply chains and jurisdictions.
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We are also signatories of the 'Terra Carta', an initiative of HRH The Prince of Wales and part of his Sustainable Markets Initiative, that puts Nature, People and Planet at the heart of the private sector and global value creation.