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06/20/2013
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Danilo Macedo
Brazil Agency reporter
Brasilia - One year after partnership at Rio +20 to operationalize the Amazon Fund, the Bank of Brazil Foundation and the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) signed today (19), the Presidential Palace, the first agreements with entities civil society for the implementation of projects. The Amazon Fund captures donations to non-reimbursable investments in projects that assist in the protection, conservation and sustainable use of forests in the Amazon Biome.
In all, 18 projects were formalized in the amount of R $ 15.4 million in eight states: Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima, Tocantins and Mato Grosso. Among the beneficiaries are farmers, indigenous peoples and extractive. Attended the ceremony ministers Izabella Teixeira, Environment, and Gilberto Carvalho, Secretary General of the Presidency.
As president of the Bank of Brazil Foundation, George Streit, the goal is to invest R $ 100 million in sustainable projects in the Amazon by 2016. Streit points out the difficulty to achieve environmental license as one of the main bottlenecks for obtaining funds by the associations. To solve the problem, the foundation is opening an office in Manaus to serve the entire region, with environmental engineers and specialists who will assist entities in the preparation of projects.
"Sometimes projects do not meet the technical requirements, and associations to try to make their way. In other cases, they [organizations] do not have internet. The office will help organizations across the region to solve problems in design and licensing information more easily in their own states, "said Streit Agency to Brazil.
Patxon Metuktire, Instituto Raoni, who had a project of approximately U.S. $ 1 million approved in the area of extraction to sustainable crafts, plus Pequi, honey and copaiba oil in Mato Grosso, explained that the project intends to train and generate rent to own about five ethnic groups, with approximately 5000 Indians in the state. For him, however, the goal of the Amazon Fund should be higher.
"We need to strengthen the fund so that it can, in practice, to preserve the forest and especially the rivers. We want to provide income to our people not to allow, for example, the entry of loggers who cut the forest illegally, "said Patxon.
The Cooperative Farmers Organized for Mutual Aid (Coocaram) of Ji-Paraná, Rondônia, which sells coffee and guarana, has 336 members and will receive U.S. $ 3 million for the purchase of vehicles, equipment, construction of drying yards, technical assistance , marketing and training. With the funds, they will also work with Brazil nuts, in partnership with indigenous peoples and rubber tappers.
"With the resources of the fund we will consolidate the proposal of organic coffee or coffee in the Amazon Cloud, as it is known here. Let's work specifications, structuring supply chains and consolidate the market, and take the name of the Amazon and the farmer's family for all countries, "said Leandro Martins Dias, commercial manager Coocaram that since 2010 exports coffee to Germany and Italy.
The choice of projects by the Foundation's partnership with Banco do Brazil BNDES was made by public selection. The main requirement is the proof of sustainability through environmental license. The project implementation period have defined and are accompanied by the Amazon Fund, which has among its main sources of funds the government of Norway, the Development Bank of Germany and Petrobras.
Edition: Nadia Franco
Source: Agency Brazil
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