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A working library of the studies, policy briefs, datasets and reporting we return to most — on the Amazon bioeconomy, investment and philanthropy, forest science, and the law and rights questions underneath all of it. Drawn from our own work and from partners across the region. Search it, or narrow by topic, format and language.
Vozes da Terra, Ep. 6 — Amazônia: Direitos em Disputa (Amazon: Rights in Dispute)
Podcast conversation on the legal and economic forces deciding who holds rights in the Amazon, co-created with the Amazon Legal Alliance (AJA) and featuring its executive secretary, Isayana Oliveira.
Caminhos para a Construção de Contratos Justos para a Sociobioeconomia na Amazônia (Paths to Building Fair Contracts for the Sociobioeconomy in the Amazon)
Webinar on how agreements between companies and Amazonian communities can be structured fairly, with Aline Vieira (SBSA) and José Vargas (Coletivo Veredas).
Towards Sustainable Aquaculture in the Amazon
Peer-reviewed research on how fish farming might expand in the Amazon basin without repeating the ecological damage aquaculture has caused elsewhere.
Wild Harvest Fund Concept Note
Concept note for an investment vehicle built around wild-harvested Amazonian products and the communities that supply them.
A Collapse of the Amazon Could be Coming ‘Faster Than We Thought’
Reporting on mounting evidence that the Amazon may reach an ecological tipping point sooner than earlier models projected.
Amazon Private Sector Investment Landscape
A survey of who is actually deploying private capital in the Amazon — across sectors, ticket sizes and deal structures.
Regional Community Enterprise Ecosystems
Maps the support structures community enterprises depend on across Amazonian regions: finance, logistics and technical assistance.
The Amazonian Food Ecosystem
An overview of Amazonian food production and distribution, from smallholder harvest through to market.
Bioeconomy for Who? Basis for Sustainable Development in the Amazon
Asks who the Amazon bioeconomy is actually meant to benefit, and what would make it serve local populations rather than distant markets.
Why should funding Amazon forest sustainability be the world’s top priority at this time?
AIC’s case to funders for why Amazon forest sustainability deserves priority over competing philanthropic causes right now.
Analysis of Bioeconomy Products from the Brazilian Amazon
Product-by-product assessment of Brazilian Amazon bioeconomy goods, covering market potential and the constraints on scaling each one.
Map of Regenerative Food Businesses
Searchable directory of regenerative food enterprises, mapped by location and product type.
Gender and Ethnic Groups in Leadership of Sustainable Businesses in the Amazon
Examines who leads sustainable businesses in the Amazon, and where women and Black and Indigenous entrepreneurs are kept out of decision-making.
How philanthropy can change the Amazon bioeconomy
Where grant capital can do what commercial capital cannot in building the Amazon bioeconomy.
Amazonian Bioeconomy and Philanthropy: Profiles of Grantmaking Institutions
Profiles of the foundations and grantmakers funding Amazon bioeconomy work, with their stated priorities and entry points.
2022 Finance Amazonia Report
Findings from the Finance Amazonia convening, which brought investors and Amazonian enterprises into the same room.
Brochure of Amazon Forest Products
Illustrated catalogue of Amazonian forest products, aimed at buyers and prospective commercial partners.
Mapping Pathways to the Amazon
PPA’s mapping of the routes open to businesses and investors that want to operate responsibly in the Brazilian Amazon.
Study on Amazon Philanthropy and the Rule of Law
How weak legal enforcement shapes what philanthropy can achieve in the Amazon, and where funders might strengthen it.
Family Offices and the Amazon
Why family offices sit differently from institutional investors on Amazon opportunities, and what that difference makes possible.
Framework for Carbon Market and Ecosystem Service Payment Innovation
A structure for designing carbon and ecosystem-service payments so that value reaches the people maintaining the forest.
Building an Amazon Regenerative Procurement System
Proposes a corporate procurement system that would create reliable demand for regeneratively produced Amazonian goods.
Policy Brief: Can Fish Drive Development of the Amazon Bioeconomy?
Policy brief by McGrath and colleagues arguing that managed fisheries — pirarucu above all — are an underused engine for the Amazon bioeconomy.
Can the Blockchain Help Save the Amazon?
Mongabay examines whether distributed-ledger tools genuinely improve traceability and carbon accounting in the Amazon, or mostly add complexity.
Why We Need Government to Curb Amazon Deforestation
Commentary arguing that voluntary and market-based measures cannot substitute for state enforcement against deforestation.
Amazon Reforestation with a Profitable Twist
How reforestation and agroforestry models can generate returns while restoring degraded land.
Investing in Amazon Rainforest Conservation: A Foreigner’s Perspective
A foreign investor’s account of what outsiders consistently misread about conservation investment in the Amazon.
Latin America Media Solutions for the Amazon
On the role of regional media and journalism in deciding which Amazon stories reach decision-makers.
Amazon Deforestation Damage and Recovery in Numbers
A compact set of figures on forest loss to date and what genuine recovery would require.
Why Compete in XPRIZE Rainforest?
The case for entering the XPRIZE Rainforest competition, and what rapid biodiversity assessment technology could unlock.
Impact Investing in the Amazon Rainforest: Pathways for Sustainable Development
An overview of the routes impact capital can take into Amazon sustainable development.
Export Opportunities for Forest-Friendly Products from the Brazilian Amazon
Amazônia 2030’s analysis of which forest-compatible Brazilian Amazon products have realistic export markets.
The Green Wave
On the emerging wave of green enterprise and entrepreneurship in the Brazilian Amazon.
Developing Platforms for Collective Action
How to build coalitions and shared platforms among organisations working on the same Amazon problems.
Legal Analysis of Brazilian Biodiversity Law
Legal memorandum on Brazil’s biodiversity law and what it requires of companies using genetic resources and traditional knowledge.
Fair Contracts in the Amazon
A project on contract terms between companies and Amazonian communities, and what makes an agreement genuinely fair.
Amazon and Bioeconomy Guide – Instituto de Engenharia
Instituto de Engenharia’s guide to the Amazon bioeconomy, written for a technical and engineering readership.
The Status of Bioeconomy Financing in Brazil: Current Trends and Challenges
Where bioeconomy financing in Brazil currently comes from, and the structural gaps that hold it back.
The Amazon bioeconomy: Beyond the use of forest products
Argues the Amazon bioeconomy is broader than harvesting forest products, taking in services, knowledge and technology.
Unlocking the Bioeconomy Agenda: Solutions to boost the sustainable use of genetic resources and traditional knowledge in Brazil
Instituto Escolhas on the regulatory changes Brazil needs in order to use genetic resources and traditional knowledge sustainably and fairly.
Report: Violence Against Indigenous Peoples in Brazil
CIMI’s annual documentation of violence against Indigenous peoples and territories, with case records by state.
Dieback: How deforestation and climate change could push the Amazon to a tipping point
An explainer on how deforestation and warming interact to push the Amazon toward a self-reinforcing tipping point.
Amazon-Relevant Treaties, Inter-Governmental Organizations and Related Bodies
Reference list of the treaties and intergovernmental bodies with jurisdiction or influence over the Amazon.
Commercially Viable Species from the Amazon Region
A working list of Amazonian species with established or plausible commercial markets.
Amazon Regranters
Directory of the intermediary funds and regranting organisations that channel money to Amazonian groups.
Mapping the Pan Amazon Philanthropy Support Ecosystem: Overview of Initial Findings
WINGS’ initial findings on who supports philanthropy across the pan-Amazon, and where the gaps sit.
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