The objective is to strengthen the structuring of productive arrangements in the socio-bioeconomy and contribute to the conservation of biodiversity and the generation of income for traditional peoples and communities.
COPABASE is a SUSTAINABLE FAMILY AGRICULTURE COOPERATIVE BASED ON ECONOMIA SOLIDARIA LTDA, founded in 2008 in the city of Arinos, Minas Gerais, Brazil. COPABASE brings together around 300 baru extractivists in 11 cities in the territory known as Grande Sertão Veredas. They also grow, prepare and sell products such as saffron, brown sugar, cassava flour, bee honey, pollen and annatto.
Our guidelines
a) promote the socioeconomic development of the territory by strengthening the productive arrangement
b) promote gender equity across project actions, through approaches that value women's contributions to the arrangement and chains worked within it
c) promote the participation, engagement, and training of young people in the implementation of planned activities, valuing their role in territorial and environmental management;
d) has strategies to increase the revenue(s) of community-based enterprises participating in the arrangement arising from the commercialization of Sociobiodiversity products;
e) build and plan, implement and monitor in a coordinated and collaborative manner between the proposing institution and partner institutions, as well as with other actors in the ecosystem relevant to the success of the arrangement;
f) promotes the institutional strengthening of community-based socio-productive organizations that are in the territory and participate in the arrangement