| Led by: Fundação Brasileira para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável (FBDS) |
Consortium partner: Trama Brasil Projetos
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| Implementation period: February 2025 - January 2026 |
| Sector: Nature |
The Amazon covers approximately 60% of Brazil’s territory and is home to numerous traditional peoples and communities who have long lived sustainably off its resources. However, over the past century, mainstream economic development has driven deforestation, threatening the forest’s survival and the livelihoods of those who depend on it.
In this context, the project seeks to support the Pará State Secretariat of Environment and Sustainability in designing, structuring, and initiating the implementation of a Socio-Bioeconomy Centre.
The Centre’s objective is to strengthen and promote community-based socio-bioeconomic initiatives that support environmental conservation, socio-economic development, and the appreciation of Amazonian peoples’ knowledge and cultures. To achieve this, the Centre will undertake the following functions:
- Conduct participatory assessments of demands and opportunities involving Indigenous peoples, quilombolas, traditional communities, and family farmers (PIQCTAFs in Portuguese)
- Mobilise public policies to enhance infrastructure and create enabling conditions
- Deliver ongoing training, capacity-building, and technical assistance
- Foster collaboration between science, technology, innovation, and traditional knowledge
- Provide support services
- Mobilise financial resource
The Centre will be one of the institutions within an innovation ecosystem being developed to implement the State’s Bioeconomy Plan (PlanBio), known as the “Amazon Bioeconomy and Innovation Park”.
“The project is expected to make both structural and strategic contributions to the socio-bioeconomy sector in the Brazilian Amazon. Structurally, it will support the creation and institutionalization of a Sociobioeconomy Centre—a permanent public structure within the Pará State Secretariat for Environment and Sustainability (Semas-PA)— which will act as a hub for strengthening community-led sociobioeconomic initiatives. Strategically, it will contribute to the implementation of the Pará State Bioeconomy Plan (PlanBio) by fostering coordination between traditional knowledge, innovation, and public policy.
Overall, it will help to formalise and scale community-based bioeconomy efforts, enhancing their ability to contribute to environmental conservation, socio-economic inclusion, and the valorization of Amazonian knowledge and cultures.”
Pedro Leitão, Director, Trama Brasil Projetos.
