Strategic Direction 3: Promote and strengthen the supply chains associated with sustainable use of natural resources and ecological restoration.
Institution: Sustainable Family Farming Cooperative Based on Solidarity Economy & #8211; COPABASE
Responsible: Dionete Figueiredo Barboza
Email: dionete.copabase@gmail.com
Phone: +55 (38) 9 9110-0091 / (38) 9 9908-7610
Priority Corridor: Sertão Veredas-Peruaçu
County: (MG) Arinos, Riachinho, Bonfinópolis de Minas, Urucuia, Chapada Gaúcha, Uruana de Minas, Natalândia and Pintópolis
Protected Areas: Mosaico Sertão Veredas-Peruaçu, Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Veredas do Acari, Estação Ecologica Sagarana,Parque Nacional Grande Sertão Veredas and Parque Estadual da Serra das Araras
General objective: To promote the diversification of agro-extractive production with sustainable management through the collective structuring of families within the Solidarity Economy-based Sustainable Family Farming Cooperative - COPABASE, covering the Urucuia River basin region, one of the main tributaries of the São Francisco.
Specific objectives:
- Disseminate sustainable technologies and practices of agro-extractive production, food security and socioeconomic organization in the regions of the Urucuia and Grande Sertão valleys.
- Develop actions to promote, preserve and conserve the biodiversity of the Cerrado Urucuiano through the involvement of rural families, ADRS and network of partner organizations.
Support amount: U$ 153,624.50
Duration: 24 months (April 2018 to April 2020)
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