The United Kingdom finances an unprecedented project to export chestnuts from the Amazon and the Cerrado, Brazil

The UK government has already released 460,000 pounds sterling (about BRL 3.2 million at the current exchange rate) to promote an unprecedented export project on the scale of baru and Brazil nuts, benefiting 7,000 small producers in the Amazon and in the Thick. The resources are being applied to training in management, access to foreign markets, logistical support and the offer of credit for community businesses. By March 2022, the project foresees that at least 60 community businesses in the Amazon and in the Cerrado will benefit from export-oriented services. Community businesses in the Amazon and Cerrado are characterized as small and medium-sized companies in biodiversity products. They come from production chains of economic, social and cultural interest, articulated by indigenous and traditional communities, or formed by associations, cooperatives or sustainable extractivists. Among these stand out, among others, the baru and Brazil nuts. Bioeconomy Funded by the United ...