Arapyaú, Tabôa, Violet, and MOV Investimentos launch Kawá, a fund to promote regenerative and family cocoa farming in Brazil
Brazil has gained a new financing fund focused on family and regenerative agriculture: Kawá, an initiative of Instituto Arapyaú, Violet, Tabôa Fortalecimento Comunitário, and MOV Investimentos, which aims to reach R$1 billion by 2030. The goal is to value small cocoa producers, increase productivity, and encourage conservation […]
Brazilian Cocoa – People, Forest, and Culture: a movement is born to highlight the national product in the foreign market
By 2030, Brazil has the potential to participate with 13% of the global cocoa market and to be among the three largest producers in the world, generating US$2.3 billion in revenue and up to 300,000 jobs, according to a report from Instituto AYA. With a focus on this potential and the goal of reaching strategic markets, such as Europe and […]
Women’s work in the field becomes empowerment credits
Production of preserves, handmade soaps, raising chickens, and dehydrating fruits. These were some of the ideas that emerged at the meeting of the women’s group from the Nova Vitória Settlement in Ilhéus on February 7th, to collectively invest a resource of R$10,000. The amount, resulting from the sale of empowerment credits […]
Brazil reinforces nature-based solutions in World Economic Forum debates
Placing Brazil at the center of the debate on Nature-Based Solutions (NbS). This was the goal that Instituto Arapyaú embarked on for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, held from January 20 to 24. For some years, the leaders participating in the world’s main economic event also discuss how to deal […]
In 2025, restoration and food systems gain strength on the Arapyaú agenda
The Arapyaú Institute begins 2025 with an ambitious and promising agenda, marked by the consolidation of initiatives that connect climate, nature, and development. One of the main objectives for this year is to highlight Brazil’s role as a center for integrated solutions for the future of the planet. “The year 2024 was crucial for us to consolidate and […]
The music that helps keep the forests and their people standing
“Carimbó is the standing forest.” The popular expression in some communities of the Amazon defines well a music that sings the animals, the rivers, and the forest. The rhythm is one of the protagonists of the short film “Sounds of the Amazon”, produced by Arapyaú, which listened to the sounds and voices of various artists from the territory.
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With the aim of promoting solutions and narratives that integrate sustainable development, environmental preservation, and improvement of the quality of life of local communities, the Arapyaú Institute operates in the Atlantic Forest in southern Bahia and in the Amazon. In southern Bahia, we strengthen initiatives focused on the conservation of the Atlantic Forest, support the development of value chains […]
Artificial intelligence for sustainability and bioeconomy in the Amazon are priorities of the Arapyaú fellows group
For the fellows group of Instituto Arapyaú, 2024 was a year of consolidating dialogues and strategies on sustainable development and possibilities for changing realities in the Amazon and Atlantic Forest based on nature-based solutions. The consolidation of the Uma Concertação pela Amazônia network, an initiative incubated by Arapyaú, as a space […]
