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.
Welight
Welight is a non-profit organization, member of the UN Global Compact, and the founder of the fintech Impact Bank. It aims to facilitate philanthropy by creating a reliable and transparent bridge between global foundations and Brazilian non-profit initiatives. Welight empower transformative agents to drive social impact through an integrated ecosystem of technology and services, increasing transparency and efficiency for both those leading the transformations and those supporting their efforts. Welight serve as Amana’s fiscal sponsor.
MCW Consultoria
MCW Consultoria is Marcelo Cwerner’s limited liability company, created to offer and conduct his management services related to the design and implementation of financial solutions for the bioeconomy and the Amazon. Based in Santarém, state of Pará in the heart of the Amazon Forest, MCW seeks to lead innovative finance projects with strong social and environmental impacts, alongside other institutions and in favor of the forest people.
TIFS
TIFS is an impact network of investors, funders, intermediaries, and enterprises building a market for a regenerative, equitable, and climate-resilient food future. TIFS’ goal is to increase financial flows to companies and financial innovators that are developing business models for increased food security and nutrition, dignified livelihoods for food producers and workers, and stable climate and healthy ecosystems.
Coama
The Cooperative of Specialized Technical Work in Agriculture and Environment of the Amazon (COAMA) is an organization that brings together professionals from the Agricultural Sciences, trained in Agronomic Engineering; Agricultural Technicians; Agroindustry Technicians; Environment; Forestry; and post-graduates. The Technical Team (ET) of COAMA serves Cooperatives, Associations, Informal Groups, Individual Producers, seeks to access public calls for proposals, notices, and articulates partnerships aimed at promoting and/or strengthening activities and actions for family farming, traditional communities, Remnants of Quilombos, Indigenous peoples, Riverside communities, Extractivists, Family Farmers, Rural Producers, in the Amazon region of Pará, capturing financial resources capable of promoting sustainable rural development in these rural territories.
