The Highest Antioxidant Nut on the Market Can Restore the Amazon
Imagine a superfood that can restore forests, swell local incomes, win over global markets, and grow in the Amazon. Meet the baru nut, a darling of silvopasture and agroforestry systems, as well as the highest antioxidant nut on the market. Where is it grown? Where is it sold? How does it help farmers replace cattle pasture with forest cover while earning more? Who is leading the way? Meet Cumbaru Productive Partnerships (CPP), a social business working on food production challenges such as deforestation, carbon emissions, pasture degradation, financial access, agricultural efficiency, and more. The CPP business model restores pasture through agroforestry and sustainable management of native bioeconomy products. CPP helps ranchers with investment readiness and technical assistance while improving production efficiencies in degraded areas, reducing deforestation pressure, and improving the carbon balances of food production systems. Join us to meet CPP co-founders, Thiago Farias Nogueira (CEO) and Pedro Nogueira (Co-Founder), to discuss the baru nut and the future of their startup.
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A little-known nut of the Cerrado, the baru nut is nutrient-rich
Startups with sustainable solutions are accelerated by the Agroforestry Challenge program
Sustainable Innovation: The case of the cerrado native fruit – Cumbaru
Startups bet on a green recovery for business growth
Baru, from contempt to stardom
Baru – Report from Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
