Sociobiodiversity Web: Structural Investments at the Foundation of Brazil’s Sociobioeconomy
In the territories, income generation and environmental preservation go hand in hand.
The community socio-bioeconomy of the 405 initiatives supported by the Sociobiodiversity Web shows this in practice, from the North to the South of Brazil. Explore this portrait of the economies of traditional peoples and communities.
Download nowUsing data, the publication presents a portrait of the community socio-bioeconomy based on the projects supported across Brazil by the Sociobiodiversity Web, an initiative of the Casa Socio-Environmental Fund in partnership with Fundo Socioambiental CAIXA.
The study brings together the profile of the supported organizations, the distribution of resources, the challenges identified by the territories themselves, and the pathways they propose to overcome them. It also features five case studies that show, in practice, how the businesses of the socio-bioeconomy and Nature-based Solutions work.
(approx. US$7.8 million) in direct grants to community initiatives, through two public calls for proposals held between 2024 and 2025.
out of 3,860 proposals received, in 316 municipalities and in every state in Brazil, across the 6 biomes and transition zones.
are led by women, and 81.7% have leadership by people of color.
come from organizations that are part of the territories where they work. Support reaches those who conserve and produce in their own territories.
Source: publication Sociobiodiversity Web: Structural Investments at the Foundation of Brazil’s Sociobioeconomy (Casa Socio-Environmental Fund, 2026).
If we want a new economy capable of conserving biodiversity, addressing the climate crisis, producing food, generating income, and keeping value in the territories, we need to fund those who already do this work every day.
Explore a portrait of the community socio-bioeconomy based on the Sociobiodiversity Web’s portfolio: who leads, where they work, and how production and conservation go hand in hand in practice.
Understand the Sociobiodiversity Web’s two lines of support, Sociobiodiversity Businesses and Nature-based Solutions: 80.2% of the projects used the grants to structure businesses, from production to commercialization.
Learn about the profile of the supported organizations, including 84 projects by Quilombola and Afro-descendant communities and 63 by Indigenous Peoples.
Get to know the challenges identified by the organizations in the territories and the pathways they themselves propose to overcome them.
Access case studies that show, in practice, how direct funding unlocks entire economic processes in the territories.
The publication is organized into chapters that cover Brazil’s community socio-bioeconomy from end to end: the context and concepts that underpin the portrait; the Sociobiodiversity Web’s journey through the two public calls for proposals; the profile of the supported organizations and the distribution of resources across the territories; the data on access to institutional markets, such as the PNAE (National School Feeding Program) and the PAA (Food Acquisition Program), programs that already reach 63.2% of the projects; the challenges and pathways identified by the territories themselves; and the case studies of the supported businesses.
Across the 405 projects supported by the Sociobiodiversity Web, each business has a name, a territory, and a story of its own. These five cases, presented in detail in the publication, show how direct funding unlocks economic processes that already existed but needed concrete conditions to grow.
Salvaterra (PA)The Cooperativa dos Agricultores e Agricultoras Familiares de Salvaterra (CAFAS) develops agroforestry production in the territory, combining cultivation, conservation, and income in the Amazon.
Cavalcante (GO)The Associação Kalunga Comunitária do Engenho II (AKCE) produces and adds value to Cerrado products, strengthening the territory’s economy and families’ ability to remain on their land with dignity.
Ibimirim (PE)The Associação de Mulheres Indígenas da Aldeia Nazário (CABOAMAN) turns Caatinga fruits into a source of income, valuing the knowledge of the territory itself.
Tapejara (RS)The youth of the Associação dos Agricultores do Condomínio Rural São Domingos organized an agroecology fair, opening space for the next generation of the community socio-bioeconomy.
Reserva Extrativista Marinha de Arraial do Cabo (RJ)The organization Lagos em Ação, in partnership with Devolverde and Alma Colorida, strengthens the mariculture chain in the ocean economy.
Each case illustrates a chapter of the study. Download the publication and explore all five in detail.
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The Casa Socio-Environmental Fund has worked for more than 20 years to ensure that resources reach those on the front lines of socio-environmental protection. It is part of Rede Comuá, which brings together independent funds from Brazil, and of Global South networks such as the Alianza Socioambiental de Fondos del Sur.
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