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Only 12 of 141 Pan-Amazon financing mechanisms are built exclusively for sociobiodiversity value chains. Amazonia Impact Fund I is one of them. Since inception, AIF I has issued 52 impact-linked loans across four Amazonian countries, deploying over $13 million to Indigenous organisations, smallholder cooperatives and SMEs, and the report's bigger finding, a structural mismatch between available capital and how Amazonian enterprises actually operate, is the real story here.

Before Amazonia Impact Ventures existed, it had a classroom. Aldo and several of AIV's founders first met Gayle Peterson on Oxford's Impact Investing Programme, years before any of this was official. In our latest Meet the Team interview, she talks about why finance still isn't taught to value the Amazon beyond exploitation, why she takes investors to the communities themselves instead of showing them a slide, and the one question she thinks we haven't asked ourselves yet.

AIV has approved a new impact-linked loan for La Campiña, an organic ginger and cacao exporter in Río Negro, Satipo. But the real story is what's happened since 2023: the company's ESG score has nearly doubled, its environmental score has more than doubled, and it now works with over 100 ginger and 330 cacao farming families across Satipo and Chanchamayo, protecting them from the price volatility that's hit the wider cacao market.

In Pichanaki, Peru, a middleman's fraud nearly bankrupted Tropical Products Cooperative. Amazonia Impact Ventures stepped in with patient capital and hands-on negotiation, helping the cooperative repay its debts and secure a direct export deal with a Danish coffee-machine manufacturer — a case study in impact investing and market access for Amazonian producers.

A new study mapped 141 financing mechanisms across the Amazon and found the same pattern throughout: the capital exists, but it rarely reaches the people on the ground. From investor education to the GLF Investment Case Symposium, three conversations this week on what it takes to close that gap — and what AIV has learned closing it.

AIV honours the world’s Indigenous Peoples by highlighting their role as the Amazon’s most effective forest protectors, the global inequities they face, and the impact‑linked finance model supporting Indigenous enterprises across forest‑positive value chains.

Amazonia Impact Ventures has been featured in the Pollination Foundation’s Nature Finance case series, highlighting how impact‑linked loans are helping community‑owned and forest‑positive enterprises strengthen value chains, invest in regenerative practices and expand local livelihoods across the Amazon.

Amazonia Impact Ventures has started UK PACT’s field work in Peru with a project session in Puerto Maldonado, bringing together producer organisations from key Amazonian value chains. The meeting introduced the diagnostic process, capacity‑building modules and plans for strengthening forest‑based enterprises across Loreto and Madre de Dios.

En el podcast Conectando Sistemas de la FAO, Aldo Soto explica cómo la inversión de impacto y el blended finance están acelerando la bioeconomía amazónica, fortaleciendo bionegocios y conservando bosques en Perú.

Through a UK PACT‑supported partnership with Pachamama, AIV is establishing end‑to‑end traceability for Amazonian nuts and fruits, using verified identities, georeferenced evidence and digital passports to turn compliance, transparency and biodiversity into investable value.

Applications for the Pan‑Amazon Investor Education Program are open until 21 July. A rare chance for investors to learn directly from Amazonian communities, experts and territorial leaders.

Murumuru, an Amazonian palm once avoided for its thorns, is now powering a fast‑growing global beauty market. Harvested sustainably by families in Madre de Dios, its butter offers both restorative properties and a pathway to better income. As AFIMAD expands its work and AIV partners with BioTara in Brazil, murumuru is becoming a cornerstone of the Amazon’s emerging bioeconomy. Inspired by initiatives like UK PACT, this series highlights the forest products and the communities

AIV is strengthening sustainable, market‑led value chains across the Amazon through private‑sector leadership, technical assistance and UK PACT support. The programme combines investment practice with deep field knowledge to help producer organisations adopt resilient, deforestation‑free models. By generating evidence‑based case studies and supporting Peru’s Bioeconomy Roadmap, the project aims to improve forest‑based livelihoods and position biodiversity‑based products in gl

Across Junín and Pasco, AIV is working with five coffee cooperatives to strengthen their technical capacity in climate‑smart agriculture. Through agroforestry workshops led by Henry S. and Verónica López de la Lama, cooperatives learn how to restore soils, diversify crops and reduce deforestation risk. These sessions form part of AIV’s mission to build resilient, low‑emission coffee systems and support producer organisations in leading their own sustainable transition.

At London Climate Week, Amazonia Impact Ventures gathered leaders from Brazil, Peru and the investment community to examine why bioeconomy finance still struggles to reach the forest communities who sustain it. Speakers highlighted new national strategies, community‑led models and financial mechanisms emerging across the Amazon — and the structural alignment needed for capital to support them.

At London Climate Action Week, AIV and Practical Action brought together leaders from across the Amazon to examine a central question: what is the real risk of investing in Indigenous bioeconomies — and what is the risk of not doing so? Through stories of ancestral cacao, forest‑based products and emerging financial models, speakers showed how community‑led enterprises are reshaping the future of nature‑positive markets.

London Climate Action Week brings together thousands of people driving real climate solutions. For AIV, it’s a chance to connect our work in the Amazon — from impact‑linked investments to Indigenous and community‑led enterprises — with the partners who can help scale it. This week we’re hosting key conversations on financing the Indigenous bioeconomy and showcasing enterprises generating real revenue and real impact.

AIV has been awarded a strong Impact Authenticity Score by the Impact Evaluation Lab (IEL), recognising the strength of our mission alignment and impact practice. IEL noted AIV’s exceptional performance in Mission Authenticity, highlighting the strong alignment between our impact objectives, investment strategy and operational execution. The assessment also commended our robust Impact Execution. This seal reflects the integrity of our model and the discipline behind our work

AIV is participating in London Climate Action Week 2026 with two events focused on financing the Amazon bioeconomy and scaling Indigenous‑led enterprises. As Europe’s largest climate festival, LCAW brings together global leaders across finance, policy and civil society. AIV is proud to contribute Amazon‑rooted insight to the UK climate finance community, highlighting commercially viable forest enterprises and the structural changes needed to unlock capital for communities.

Amazonia Impact Ventures will open the June Environmental Impact Investing Group (EIIG) Market Information Session, introducing our impact model and the Amazon‑based enterprises we support. The EIIG brings together foundations and individual investors to build confidence, share learning and explore high‑quality environmental investment opportunities. AIV is pleased to contribute to a network committed to practical, transparent and community‑rooted approaches to environmental