Products: Bone handicrafts (vases, office kits, appetizer sets, picture frames, handmade boxes).
Contact Person: Noemia Kuhnem
Address: Rua Márcia Valério de Freitas, s/nº, Vila Seac.
CEP: 79244-000
City: Jardim/MS
Phone: (67) 3251.3617 – 9986.6887
E-mail: [email protected]
Site: www.jardim.ms.gov.br
N. of Families: 25
Sindicato dos produtores de erva mate de Mato Grosso do Sul
Products: Tereré, cimarrão, black tea, tereré with medicinal herbs from the region
Contact Person: Paulo Benites
Address: Rua Jorge Roberto Salomão, nº 84.
City: Ponta Porã/MS
Phone: (67) 9975.1902 – 3431.1948
E-mail: [email protected]
N. of Families: 64
Products: Non-industrial Indian Saffron
Contact Person: Wanderley Cardoso de Araújo
Address: Praça Maurício de Moura , nº 773
CEP: 76.490-000
City: Mara Rosa/GO
Phone: (62) 3366.2045 – (62) 8138.5371
E-mail: [email protected]
N. of Families: 26
Products: Handicrafts, jams, preserves and pepper-based sauces
Contact Person: João Malheiros
Address: Av. Brasília, s/nº – Centro.
City: Abadiânia/GO
Phone: (61) 9214.2038
E-mail: [email protected]
N. of Families: 50
Brand: MS Peixe
Products: Native fish (pintado, dourado, pacu and carimbá) and tilápia
Contact Person: Ademar Ferreira
Address: Av. Marcelino Pires, nº 3128, Centro.
CEP: 72940-000
City: Dourados/MS
Phone: (67) 3424.0202
E-mail: [email protected] or
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Site: www.mspeixe.com.br
N. of Families: 78
Brand: Comércio Justo
Address: Rua Cel. Evangelista nº 24, sala 201
(Rua da Sociedade 28 de Setembro), Centro.
CEP: 48903-500
City: Juazeiro/BA
Phone: (74) 3611.6476
E-mail: [email protected]
Additional Information:
Coordinates 8 initiatives at an advanced stage regarding FairTrade certification, in addition to 15 others in intermediate steps.
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Brands: Terra Madre, Slow Food
Contact Person: Roberta Marins de Sá
Address: Edifício Palácio do Desenvolvimento – MDA/SDT. Bloco D – 8º andar
City: Brasília/DF
Phone: (61) 2191.9881
E-mail: [email protected]
Sites: www.slowfoodbrasil.com
www.terramadre.slowfoodbrasil.com
Additional Information:
Terra Madre Brasil is part of the Slow Food movement, which promotes Ecogastronomy and has 80 thousand members worldwide.
Associated Enterprises:
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Associação Brasileira de Empreendimentos da Economia Solidária e Agricultura Familiar CJS
Brand: Ecojus Brasil
Products: Food and crafts
Contact Person: Dinilson Debiasi
City: Chapecó/SC (temporary)
Phone: (49) 9997.0436 – (49) 3323.1908
E-mail: [email protected]
N. of Families: 15.000 (throughout Brazil)
5.000 (in the Northeast)
3.000 (in the Cerrado)
Additional Information:
Ecojus gathers over 100 family farmer associations in the 5 regions of Brazil, about 50 of which are in the Northeast and approximately 5 in the Cerrado. Experience and information interchange is encouraged, as well as cooperation among fair trade enterprises. It is part of the Brazilian Fair Trade System, which is under construction.
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Brand: Central do Cerrado
Products: Pequi, baru, jatobá flour, babassu flour, buriti, honey, fruit pulp and handicrafts – collected and processed by Family Farmers and traditional Cerrado populations.
Contact Person: Luis Roberto Carrazza and Marcelo Bresolin
Address: SCLN 202 – Bloco: “B”, sala 101 a 104.
CEP: 70832-525
City: Brasília/DF
Phone: + 55 (61) 3327 8489
E-mail: [email protected] and [email protected]
Sites: www.ispn.org.br and www.centraldocerrado.org.br
Additional Information:
The Central do Cerrado is a non-profit initiative established among 19 community-based organizations which have productive activities based on sustainable use of Cerrado biodiversity. The Central do Cerrado acts as a bridge between communities producing and consumers, offering high quality products.
In addition to promoting diffusion of community-based products making sustainable use of the Cerrado in local, regional and international markets, the Central do Cerrado is also a hub for information dissemination, technical interchange and support for communities seeking improvements in their production, organization and management processes.
The Central do Cerrado operates in accordance with Fair Trade principles and concepts, aimed at promoting social inclusion through strengthened productive initiatives which can bring together Cerrado conservation and income generation, as well as social protagonism.
Associated Enterprises:
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Products: Vegetable oils, essential oils, medicinal plants and cosmetics
Contact Person: Jaqueline Evangelista Dias
City: Cidade de Goiás/GO
Phone: (62) 3371.1121 – (62) 3371.2867
E-mail: [email protected]
site: www.pacari.org.br
Additional Information:
The network is made up of community-based groups which work with Cerrado medicinal plants in the states of Minas Gerais, Tocantins, Maranhão and Goiás. A project for production of Cerrado plant vegetable oils for cosmetics production is currently under development, involving 40 families.
Agência de Desenvolvimento Integrado e Sustentável do Vale do Urucuia
Products: Quilts, blankets, shawls and other woven products making use of natural dyes
Contact Person: Irene Gomes Guedes
Address: Rua João Gonçalves da Costa, 10.
City: Arinos/MG
Phone: (38) 9946 7926 – 9957 2671
E-mail: [email protected]
Site: www.valedoriourucuia.org.br
N. of Families: 150
Brand: IMM
Products: Handicrafts (buriti straw, taboa and carnaúba straw, golden grass, buriti seeds, Cerrado seeds, buritirana, jatoba, among others).
Contact Person: Izolda Leite Pereira Maia
Address: Rua Abílio Farias, nº 570 – Centro.
City: Barreiras/BA
Phone: (77) 3611.6925 – 9971.2541
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Codevasf, by means of the Amanhã (Tomorrow) Project, is in charge of a social program aimed at fostering organization and capacity-building of the rural youth through partnerships in the São Francisco and Paraníba Valleys, preparing these young men and women to be independent and competent in agricultural and agro-industrial enterprises, providing alternatives for market entry, in accordance with Federal Government Social Programs, a top priority.
Associated Enterprises:
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Associação dos produtores de beneficiamento de frutas do Cerrado de Damianópolis
Products: Native fruit (jatobá, cagaita and pequi), jatobá flour and pequi pulp
Contact Person: Giovanda de Souza Brandão.
Address: Av. Júlio Moreira de Moura, 126, Setor Olímpia.
CEP: 73980-000
City: Damianópolis/GO
Phone: (62) 3445.1171
E-mail: [email protected]
N. of Families: 90
