The Sustainable Amazon Partnership is a public and private collaboration to promote lasting sustainable management of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest.
Sambazon started the Sustainable Amazon Partnership (SAP) as part of our market-driven conservation business model in the Amazon Rainforest. The SAP promotes forest stewardship, creates new jobs, improves living conditions and offers educational opportunities for thousands of small family farmers through the sustainable management of the Açaí palm tree.
Since SAP’s inception we have be able to:
• Create a positive economic exchange for over 10,000 local family farmers by providing an alternative sustainable income source to logging, cattle, and monoculture plantations.
• Promote sustainable development through environmental stewardship on over 1.9 million acres of agro-forestry farms via USDA Organic guidelines, fair trade business practices and wild crop harvesting standards.
• Support women in local cooperatives who make açaí seed jewelry as a means to supplement their income and help bring them above the poverty line.
• Establish and monitor biosocial indicators to benchmark the impact of açaí trade; these indicators continue to show that wild harvesting of açaí has a positive contribution to social, environmental and economic conditions.
• Develop and implement sustainability programs with the local family farmers such as agro-forestry training to demonstrate sustainable use of non-timber forest products abundant on their lands and to help protect biodiversity.
SAP works with industry partners, such as Tarte Cosmetics, Zorbitz and Veev Spirits, as well as non-profit partners, such as The Nature Conservancy's EcoEnterprises Fund, Peabiru Institute and Brazil Foundation, to collaborate on initiatives and increase the overall positive impact in the Amazon.
Click here to make a donation to the Sustainable Amazon Partnership (SAP). In the ‘Donor Advised’ field please be sure to write SAP to ensure your donation is directed towards the program.
If you are interested in becoming one of the SAP's industry or non-profit partners please e-mail us at: SAP@sambazon.com
