2019-11/ In an expedition on board the "Dona Diolinda" Brazilian ethnologists, biologists and kitchen chefs have joined their interests in putting the Amazon's biodiversity into value. Accompanied by ECO project advisor André Machado the team met indigenous communities and familiarized themselves with their benefits from accessing national markets as well as challenges of commercially producing NTFP. GIZ/ECO Consult supports the marketing of Pirarucu fish, jointly with USAID und the US Forest Service. First recipes from the 200 kg-species were presented on- and offline under the new brand „Gosto da Amazônia“. Other project activities are a festival, workshops, a branding book, website and press releases. > NEWS

Promoting sustainable livelihoods in the world's emerging economies is an acute mission in view of regional crises and migration. ECO Consult combines technical and business knowledge with field competence to translate negotiated policies into action on the ground. ECO Consult assists in innovative interventions that are economically and ecologically profitable and carry long-term pro-poor benefits. > ABOUT US

Sustainable development indispensably prerequires ecological integrity, economic viability and social equity. This notion underlies ECO's work as a company and is also reflected in our name. But trivial as this may appear 27 years after UNCED, sustainability remains hard to define – and even harder to apply — in practice. For instance, any attempt at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions from forest conversion will fail if we do not touch on land rights, productivity and equitable decision-making. Likewise, stakeholder platforms like the Global Landscapes Forum keep underpinning the need for coordinated, interdisciplinary and inclusive action.
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