Photo: Divulgação Assobio
At the end of August, 25 businesses operating in the Amazon met in Belém (PA) and founded Assobio (Associação de Negócios da Sociobioeconomia da Amazônia).
With the intention of acting as a network, seeking to strengthen cooperation and representation between businesses linked to socio-biodiversity in the region, the association brings together businesses from different sectors, including food, beverages, cosmetics, fashion and services that have the common purpose of promoting development sustainable development in the Amazon, encourage entrepreneurship and enhance coordination between actors.
AMAZ was present, as an observer, at the meeting that approved the statute of Assobio, which has many businesses on its staff that have gone through days promoted by the accelerator and also by the Floresta+ Aceleraçao Program, promoted by the UNDP and the MMA, whose implementing partners Idesam, AMAZ and Sense-Lab. And also businesses that are now part of the accelerator’s portfolio.
Assobio informs that it has support from the Certi Foundation, GIZ, Clua and CESUPA.
“Generating innovative and sustainable businesses in the Amazon is, in addition to an opportunity for the region, a new way for Brazil to value its riches and generate development from them, acting locally and thinking globally. We often try to copy foreign models and the businesses that associate here show innovations based on our biome and our identity, a timely and necessary path when we have the privilege and responsibility of being born with an Amazon at home”, highlights Paulo Reis , president of the association.
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