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: comerciojusto_juazeiro@yahoo.com.br
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Coordinates 8 initiatives at an advanced stage regarding FairTrade certification, in addition to 15 others in intermediate steps.
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Brand: Ética Comércio Solidário (Ética)
Address: Rua da Concórdia, 677, 1º e 2º andar, Bairro São José.
CEP: 50020-050
City: Recife/PE
Telephone/Fax: +55 (81) 3081.5632 - 9106.5457
Contact Person: Edson Marinho
E-mail: edson_marinho@wvi.org
Site: www.eticabrasil.com.br
Additional Information:
Ética is a company devoted to promotion of sustainable development in impoverished communities, creating job opportunities and generating income by means of sales of their products both in the internal and external market. Coordination of marketing and other services promotes qualified access to market shares of dozens of enterprises (mostly handicrafts).
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Contact Person: Assis Barroso
Address: Rua Raimundo de Castro, nº 548 – Centro
City: Itapipoca/CE
E-mail: assisvictor@hotmail.com
Phone: (88) 3631.0589 - 9214.9084
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The Marketing Agency has several partners and undertakes actions to support marketing processes in its associations and cooperatives in Ceará.
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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: roberta.sa@mda.gov.br
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.
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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: dj.de.biasi@hotmail.com
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: Sabor Natural do Sertão
Contact Person: Miroval Ribeiro Marques
Address: Av. das Nações , nº 04 – Castelo Branco
CEP: 48900-000
City: Juazeiro/BA
Phone: (74) 3611.6481 - 8103.7039
E-mail: miroval@irpaa.org
Site: www.dosertao.com.br/english
Additional Information:
Coordinating and mobilizing groups for production and sales is one of the objectives of this network which is active in 3 states of the Northeast. 8 associative family farming enterprises participate, in addition to 11 technical assistance organizations.
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União das Cooperativas da Agricultura Familiar e Economia Solidária
Brand: Unicafes
Contact Person: Christiane Almeida
Address: SDS - Edifício Conjunto Baracat, nº 27 – sala 212 e 213
CEP: 70300-000
City: Brasília/DF
Phone: (61) 8189.3990 - 3323.6609 - (81) 9609.4511
E-mail: christianealmeida@yahoo.com.br
Site: www.unicafes.org.br
Additional Information:
Unicafes is an organization aimed at promoting and seeking policies and socioeconomic conditions which favor the segment
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Products: Sheep/goats and derivatives, tropical fruit, honey, fish and derivatives, organic garden products
Contact Person: Edmir Manoel de Souza
Address: R. Horácio Ferraz, n° 46
CEP: 56400-000
City: Floresta/PE
Phone: (87) 9632.6173
E-mail: coopercaprifloresta@yahoo.com.br
Additional Information:
The Itaparica Territory Marketing Network is composed of Bahia and Pernambuco states and is currently in its beginning stages of organization. Cooperatives, labor unions, NGOs and government monitoring and technical assistance divisions participate. The region has approximately 15,000 irrigated hectares, with large tropical fruit production and capacity for organic production.
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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: luis@ispn.org.br and marcelo@centraldocerrado.org.br
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.
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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: jaqueline@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: irene@valedoriourucuia.org.br
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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The Brazilian semi-arid is home to peculiarities no other similar area in the planet possesses, with emphasis given to its heavy population densification. It is a mosaic of sub-spaces with a complex social situation and which has historically challenged public policy in the search for a solution.
Dom Helder Camara Project
Brand: PDHC
Contact Person: Sarah Vidal
Address: Rua Francisco Alves, nº 84 – Ilha do Leite
CEP: 50.070-490
City: Recife/PE
Phone: (81) 3301.1355 - (81) 9961.5752
E-mail: sarah@dom.gov.br
Site: www.projetodomhelder.gov.br
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The Dom Hélder Câmara Project is connected with the Secretariat of Territorial Development – SDT, in the Ministry of Agrarian Development – MDA, providing technical assistance for over 11,000 small farmer families and settlers in 8 territories of 6 states in the Northeast. It is focused on local, participative and fair trade processes and sustainability.
The Northeast Semi-Arid Agrarian Reform Settlement Sustainable Development Project – Dom Helder Câmara Project (PDHC), is a government project created from an International Loan deal between the Federative Republic of Brazil and the International Development Fund – FIDA, and is connected to the Ministry of Agrarian Development’s Territorial Development Secretariat.
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.
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