Amazon Emprende
The Emprende Amazon Native Seed Center is a technical, scientific and community solution that contributes to reversing the point of no return of ecosystems degraded by deforestation. It is a model that generates gains in biodiversity (rescue of native seeds and planting of native seedlings in restoration areas), economic gains for peasant and indigenous communities (use and exploitation of seeds, nursery of native seedlings, implementation of restoration on their properties ) and finally, compliance with public and private restoration goals.
Created on May 05, 2024 and updated on May 05, 2024
Location
Country
Colombia
Municipality
Florencia
The problem we are solving
Enable access to high-quality native plant material for public and private ecosystem restoration projects
The solution proposed
Native Seed Center. A system composed of: -Seed Tree Network: sustainable use of seeds from more than 70 native species. -Seed Laboratory: science to improve the viability and quality, in the management and propagation of seeds of native species. -Community nursery: technical strengthening model, governance and business model of local nurseries to produce and sell native plant material to ecosystem restoration projects. -Forest School: environmental education about the activities and results generated at the Center.
Impact
Target group(s)
Expected Impact
- Generate biodiversity gains by rescuing native seeds of 70 species, germinating them in nurseries and restoring areas degraded by deforestation with these seedlings. -Economic income for peasant and indigenous communities, through the use and exploitation of seeds, development of community nurseries, and participation in ecosystem restoration projects. -Generation of greenhouse gas removal and net gains in biodiversity, through the restoration of ecosystems in alliance with public and private projects.
SDGs
Estimated Impact
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Funding & development
Currently looking for
>US$750k
Value
Grant, equity
Instrument type
How the money will be used
1) Strengthening the business model of the Seed Center (technical and scientific development) 2) Implementation of ARR projects within the voluntary carbon market and biodiversity credits 3) Tax Works Projects
36 months
Duration of the project
Scaling up
Maturity / stage of development
Sustainability of the project
Sustainability of the project
Sustainability is given by the potential of the business model, based on the growing demand for high-quality native plant material for public projects (example: Government restoration goal 2022-2026: 753K ha) and private projects (ARR projects, with a potential greater than 6 million hectares).
Replicability of the project
Replicability of the project
The Native Seed Center is a scientific, technical and business model that is fully replicable in any ecosystem in Colombia and LATAM. The objective is to set up Seed Centers in the Andean region (2), the Caribbean (2) and Orinoquía.
Progress and impact tracking
Progress and impact tracking
The Seed Center has a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) team that is responsible for systematizing, analyzing the data generated and building strategies to not only enhance positive environmental, social and economic impacts, but also generate risk management measures. .
Other information
Other information
-Winners of the World Economic Forum Challenge 1 Trillion Trees: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/09/innovations-restoration-amazon-bioeconomy-ecopreneurs/ -Report by El Pais de España about El Centro: https://elpais.com/america-futura/2024-03-17/un-laboratorio-de-semillas-en-el-corazon-de-la-amazonia-para -restore-the-jungle.html?autoplay=1 -Caracol TV Environmental Protection Award: https://www.premiomedioambiente.caracoltv.com/amazonia-emprende/ -Alliance with the IDB Lab: https://www.iadb.org/es/whats-our-impact/CO-T1736 - Web: www.amazoniaemprende.com
Project Developers
This project has 1 project developer.
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