Wednesday, 19th February 2025
By Paula Perrelli dos Anjos
Amazonia Impact Ventures (AIV) collaborates with diverse agents to achieve the social and environmental impact needed to bring change and fight climatechange and deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.
Among them are mission-driven ethical buyers who can be medium private companies based in the Global North. They can access the foreign market and, potentially, influence the local producer community to improve sustainability.
Some of our smaller partner cooperatives need a little help to foster sustainable long-term trade relationships with ethical buyers and AIV plays a facilitating role. By investing in these key actors, AIV significantly reduces investment risk, promoting a seamless supply chain that ensures better prices for the producers and healthier food options for the final consumers.
RESSOURCES BIO
Today, we will explore the partnership with Ressources Bio (Le Ray bio distribution), a French company based in Brittany purchasing Amazonian Nuts (also commonly known as Brazil Nuts) from RONAP, a small cooperative made of 69 collectors, 52% of whom are women.
Ressource Bio is dedicated to supporting producers through long-term partnerships that respect local ecosystems and local knowledge, by providing agronomic support for production, assisting with certification processes, and fostering fair and transparent commercial relationships.
We are thrilled to announce that AIV is partnering with them. According to the Latin America manager of Ressources Bio, Carlos Coello, French customers are enjoying quality products from one of the most biodiverse regions of the world.
Ressources Bio CEO, Sébastien Le Ray, added: “Thanks to the SPP minimum price, the nuts harvesters receive fair remuneration and we maintain the resilience of the native communities”.
TECHNOLOGY FOR CONSERVATION
With more than 20 years of experience, RONAP has been protecting 44,000 hectares of forests, with 24,400 georeferenced and identified trees, in the region of Madre de Dios, in southeastern Peru.
The cooperative is known for actively participating in forest conservation by implementing a participatory monitoring programme, using smartphone apps and camera traps to capture the presence of key species such as jaguars, howler monkeys, tapirs and peccaries.
Since 2020, AIV has invested in RONAP and is committed to supporting its growth and continuing a long-term partnership.
A big shout out to the team at Ressources Bio for our latest agreement: Sebastien Le Ray, Alexandre Bonnier, and Carlos Eduardo Niezen Coello.
Check the nuts traceability at: https://arcg.is/nWL1j0
And our newest partner: https://www.ressources-bio.com/
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