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title: REAL - Resilient Amazon Landscapes to improve equality for people and nature
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# REAL - Resilient Amazon Landscapes to improve equality for people and nature

 

| **Implementing partner: Rainforest Alliance** |
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| ** Implementation period: August 2024 - March 2027** |
| **Consortium partners: Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) - Grupo Biz Colombia SAS (Agrobiz)** |
| ** Sector: Just Rural Transition** |

  

 

 

Amazon ecosystem has a relevant role in carbon storage and the planet’s climate balance. This region also provides critical ecosystem services, such as timber products, nutrient dense fruits and nuts, medicinal plants, and other benefits resulting from its abundant biodiversity.  

Substantial portions of forestland are being razed to create space to farm agricultural products that global markets demand, such as cattle, cocoa, palm-oil, and coffee. As agricultural production expands, forests are destroyed and water scarcity increases, putting significant strains on local communities and Indigenous livelihoods.  

With one of the largest forested areas (52%), Caquetá, Meta, Guaviare, and Putumayo departments are among the most affected by deforestation, closely related to the socioeconomic and political context. Unfortunately, the Amazon is a central stage for those who benefit from illegal logging, land grabbing, and the development of illicit crops, in addition to the practices of extensive livestock farming, unplanned transport infrastructure, illegal extraction of minerals, and expansion of the agricultural frontier. 

REAL project is implemented in the Colombian Amazon piedmont, in the departments of Guaviare, Putumayo, and Caquetá, a region of high ecological value, home of indigenous peoples and local communities that are highly vulnerable to climate change effects, and where the deforestation rate reached 46,517 hectares in 2022. 

The project aims to develop cocoa and non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP) value chains with a focus on Gender Equality, Diversity and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) as an alternative to improve communities’ livelihoods, increase their resilience to climate change, contribute to contain deforestation and promote forest restoration.

***"With our Resilient Amazon Landscapes (REAL) project we want contribute to the positive impact on communities and ecosystems in the Colombian Amazon region through the implementation of participatory and inclusive methodologies. The project has a big focus on gender equity and social inclusion, because we strongly believe that facing the barriers in these areas its critical for improving the resilience of communities to climate change." ***

*- Nicolás Mendoza, Project Manager, Rainforest Alliance Colombia*

 

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#  Expected results

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- Women and youth increase their leadership and meaningful participation in production and decision-making processes in cocoa and NTFP.
- Communities improve their resilience to climate change events through strengthening of production systems, restoration of degraded areas and sustainable management of resources in prioritized landscapes.

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- Cocoa producers and NTFP organizations (associations and cooperatives) have access to financing mechanisms and new markets, to increase their sells revenue.

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