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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.

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.

Amazonia Impact Ventures announces a new partnership with ASCART on the International Day for Biological Diversity. Led by forest steward Rosa Chávez, the association protects biodiversity in Tambopata while sustainably harvesting Brazil nuts. AIV’s investment strengthens their systems, resilience and long‑term forest stewardship.

Trimtab has joined the Amazonia Impact Fund I as an investor in a new series of commitments, backing AIV’s work across the Amazon’s bioeconomy. The impact‑first firm invests in markets conventional finance struggles to reach, supporting cooperatives, mid‑chain actors and Indigenous producers entering formal finance for the first time. Trimtab’s catalytic and senior tranches signal confidence in the viability of nature‑based value networks.

AIV has expanded its long‑standing partnership with Sanchirio Palomar Cooperative through a new impact‑linked loan supporting production, processing and export of organic agroforestry coffee in Peru’s Junín region. The cooperative’s 630 members—one‑third women—combine high‑quality coffee with environmental stewardship, gender leadership and traceability aligned with EUDR requirements.

A 100% women‑led coffee cooperative from the Peruvian Amazon has reached a new milestone. CEMCAVIR has completed its first export shipment to Malongo in France, following years of investment and partnership with Amazonia Impact Ventures. Their progress reflects the power of women’s leadership and sustainable value chains in the Amazon.

Amazonia Impact Ventures held an initial conversation with the Fundação Amazônia Sustentável in Manaus, exploring early opportunities for collaboration on community‑led bioeconomy models in the Brazilian Amazon. The discussion highlighted FAS’s flagship pirarucu programme, a recognised example of how conservation, traditional knowledge and local income generation can reinforce one another across floodplain ecosystems.

Amazonia Impact Ventures (AIV) and the Wyss Academy for Nature have launched a partnership to strengthen the economic resilience of three forest‑based associations in Peru: RONAP, ASCART and AFIMAD. Over 2026, the collaboration will support these organisations in consolidating professional, sustainable business models rooted in forest management. Focusing on Brazil Nuts, an emblematic NTFP of the Amazon, the initiative aims to reinforce business systems of the chain.

AIV has entered Brazil with a landmark investment, financing Ecotierra’s participation in the Roraima Carbon initiative alongside Courageous Land. The partnership marks a significant step in AIV’s mission to build community‑centred forest economies in the Brazilian Amazon, supporting regenerative agroforestry, carbon sequestration, and long‑term climate resilience. By backing Ecotierra’s entry into the project, AIV is helping scale a model that restores soils and lives.

Amazonia Impact Ventures (AIV) recognises the partnerships strengthened in 2025 across the Amazon, supporting cooperatives and enterprises whose work protects forests and sustains livelihoods. From coffee and cacao to Brazil nuts and biodynamic agriculture, these organisations advance climate resilience, women’s leadership, and Indigenous stewardship through impact‑linked finance.

Amazonia Impact Ventures (AIV) recognises the Catalytic Climate Finance Facility for its support in accelerating the structuring of Amazonia Impact Fund I. Over two years, this grant strengthened our impact and gender frameworks, advanced fundraising toward our USD 25M goal, and helped mobilise capital for farmers and Indigenous peoples through blended finance and rigorous due diligence.

Amazonia Impact Ventures (AIV) recognises its 2025 supporters and investors, including a mid‑year capital injection from Working Capital for Community Needs (WCCN), a pioneering US social impact fund that has channelled over $160M into microfinance and services for low‑income entrepreneurs in Latin America. Their backing helps AIV expand impact‑linked loans in the Amazonian bioeconomy.

Amazonia Impact Ventures has joined the UK PACT programme’s first field mission to Peru’s Amazon, launching a £1.18 million drive to strengthen value chains for non‑timber forest products such as aguaje and camu camu. On the ground in Ucayali, AIV met local bio‑businesses, assessed their financial needs and explored ways to connect sustainable forest enterprises with international markets.

Amazonia Impact Ventures (AIV) is proud to announce a transformative partnership with Kulkao, a leading processor and marketer of organic cacao in Peru. Through a newly approved working-capital loan, AIV is fueling the expansion of value-added cacao derivatives, while anchoring sustainable livelihoods for over 500 smallholder farmers across the Amazon basin.

Amazonia Impact Ventures secures new investment from WCCN, boosting gender-inclusive, sustainable agri-food and forest enterprises in the Amazon. Partnership supports indigenous-led cooperatives like Café Orígenes in Peru, expanding market access, technical training, and women’s leadership to drive high-impact, community-driven growth across the region.

Last Friday in Lima, UK PACT launched its flagship Peru programme, backed by £1.18 million to elevate Peruvian non-timber forest products in global markets. AIV joins the consortium to upgrade production, strengthen value chains and secure trade deals. Over 24 months, the project will work with ten forest communities across San Martín, Loreto and Ucayali, aiming for 20% revenue growth.

Amazonia Impact Ventures advanced Indigenous trade in Ecuador, visiting Wiñak to support sustainable exports and agroforestry practices. Co-founder Aldo Soto spoke at CLIIQ 2025 in Quito, highlighting AIV’s impact-linked loans as a tool to strengthen Amazonian cooperatives and scale financial inclusion in Latin America. The trip reinforced AIV’s commitment to hands-on, community-driven impact investing.

AIV renews its partnership with Eco-Ola to boost sustainable Macambo bean production in San Martin, northern Peru. The fourth loan supports 220 farmers, many of whom are women, and promotes biodiversity by planting 3,500 trees. With 2025 production expected to be 20% higher, this initiative enhances agroforestry, rainforest conservation, and economic resilience through exports via Imla’kesh.