Produce and conserve: The contributions of family farmers and Indigenous Peoples in the Amazon

Background

The Amazon is home to the world's largest tropical forest and plays a fundamental role as a climate regulator, carbon store, and source of freshwater. It is also home to more than 50 million people and a key region for the food security, nutrition, and livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples, traditional communities, and rural populations.

However, the Amazon region is facing growing pressures from deforestation, land-use change, the expansion of unsustainable production models, ecosystem degradation, and the impacts of climate change. These pressures threaten to push parts of the Amazon towards a tipping point, with profound consequences for climate stability, biodiversity, agrifood production, and the well-being of Amazonian populations. 

Against this backdrop, the publication Produce and Conserve aims to provide a regional perspective, grounded in evidence and comparable data, on the dynamics of this inhabited, productive, and strategic territory, where conservation and human well-being are mutually dependent. The document is based on a central premise: producing to conserve is not merely a slogan, but an urgent agenda for sustainable development in the Amazon.

Objective

• Present the main findings and recommendations of the report, highlighting its contribution to the regional debate on the Amazonian bioeconomy, sustainable agrifood systems, active forest conservation, food security, and the well-being of Amazonian populations.
• Promote a multi-stakeholder dialogue bringing together different perspectives on the Amazon, its opportunities and challenges, regarding sustainable economic development that improves the quality of life for its communities without putting its biodiversity at risk.

Target audience

The event is aimed at government authorities, research and academic institutions, development banks and national financial institutions, organizations representing Indigenous Peoples, local communities and civil society, and media outlets from the eight Amazonian countries (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela).

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