Today, the world production of agricultural products faces great challenges due to the context of climate change. A sign of this is that according to the International Cocoa Organization-ICCO for the 2019/20 season, world cocoa production would decrease by 0.6% compared to the 2018/19 season, due to adverse weather and disease outbreaks in the crop mainly in the producing areas of Africa, Asia and Oceania.
The Amazon Cooperative of Voluntary and Communal Conservation - COOPERAMAZ is a social business model with a focus associated with conservation and circular economy. In addition, its raison d'être is to improve the quality of life of those who take on the commitment to conserve the forest: small producers. Cooperamaz works in collaboration with the Asociación Amazónicos por la Amazonía - AMPA and the Red de Conservación Voluntaria y Comunal "Amazonía Que Late" (Voluntary and Community Conservation Network "Amazonía Que Late"), with the firm conviction that standing forests are more profitable than conventional activities that threaten these ecosystems essential for life.
COOPERAMAZ was born in 2018, responding to a need of the Voluntary and Communal Conservation Network of San Martin to have an arm that works on the economic axis, generating value chains associated with conservation to achieve financial sustainability of the work of control and surveillance of the areas. It has been working on pilot chains for the integrated use of cocoa, coffee, coconut, honey, aguaje and quinoa. It integrates members from 19 areas, and more than 540 families that protect a total of more than 370,000 hectares of standing forest.
Since July 2021, Cooperamaz has been part of the Coalition for Sustainable Production, a multi-stakeholder platform driving the transition to deforestation-free value chains under a sustainable emissions-free approach.
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