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Challenge. That is the word that connects the stories in this edition. The challenge of restoring degraded land on a global scale, strengthening impact ecosystems and guaranteeing essential rights in vulnerable areas.
In the Rio Gregório Extractive Reserve in Amazonas, the challenge takes on especially harsh dimensions: long days by boat to reach the nearest medical center turn the right to healthcare into a difficult journey. The Public Health System in the Forest project, made possible by an exemplary collaborative network, has responded to this reality with an integrated primary care solution as part of Vale’s Together Against Poverty program.
On the global stage, the 2026 Nature and Biodiversity Challenge, led by the World Economic Forum’s UpLink platform, issues a direct challenge to our ability to scale up restoration. It seeks to identify initiatives capable of making processes more agile, measurable and financially viable. As an Ecosystem Partner in the initiative, we will contribute our experience, technical expertise, mentorship and strategic connections to help promising solutions reach the scale the problem demands.
All of this reminds us that transforming realities requires a daily commitment to viewing challenges not as limits but as starting points for new future possibilities.
We hope you enjoy this edition!
Patrícia Daros
Director, Fundo Vale |
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Public Health System in the Forest
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A multi-stakeholder initiative opens a medical center in an Amazon extractive reserve located three days by boat from the nearest facility |
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The Agroforestry Innovation Symposium, the Bioeconomy Amazon Summit and Impacta Mais 2026 come together in May as a connected journey through agroforestry, the Amazon and the impact economy in Brazil |
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2026 Nature and Biodiversity Challenge
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The World Economic Forum’s innovation platform is looking for startups capable of making restoration faster, more measurable and more financially viable |
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Operational Executive Secretary of the Amazon Restoration Alliance |
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How has the Amazon Restoration Alliance contributed to accelerating restoration in the biome?
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The Alliance is a multi-institutional, cross-sector initiative established in 2017, whose overarching goal is to promote, strengthen and scale up forest landscape restoration in the Brazilian Amazon. It is a network with more than 190 members that brings together multiple stakeholders, positioning restoration as a strategy integrated with conservation and generating shared socioeconomic benefits, connecting those who plan, those who finance and those who carry out restoration on the ground. Our long-term vision is to serve as a leading platform for cross-sector integration and dialogue to scale up restoration. To that end, we are building a territorial intelligence strategy, strengthening local actors and supporting public policies that make restoration viable in the daily lives of family farmers and traditional communities. This allows resources and efforts to reach the locations that need them most more quickly, supported by sound technical solutions and a long-term commitment.
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How can territorial intelligence transform restoration in the Amazon?
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Our territorial intelligence strategy enables restoration to move beyond a collection of isolated projects and become a coordinated effort, focused on the right locations and the people who live there. The Territorial Strategic Intelligence for Restoration in the Amazon Movement (ATERA) is the Alliance’s response to this challenge. This strategy organizes data, priorities and stakeholders to improve resource allocation, scale up restoration across the biome and strengthen existing initiatives. Through ATERA, the Alliance is structuring hubs that offer technical training, a support ecosystem, business acceleration and fundraising, connecting public policies, research, funders and on-the-ground practitioners.
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What have been the Alliance’s main advances backed by financial support from organizations such as Fundo Vale?
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Support from Fundo Vale has been essential to sustaining the structure that supports the Alliance’s executive secretariat and ensuring continuity of its network-based actions in the Amazon. With this support, the Alliance was able to launch and begin structuring ATERA as a hub to organize territorial intelligence, train teams, support businesses and mobilize funding for restoration on a large scale. Fundo Vale also enabled the network to participate effectively in COP30 and other strategic events, such as a native species forestry event alongside BNDES and a federal government workshop on the National Plan for the Recovery of Native Vegetation. As a result, the Alliance has strengthened its capacity for coordination, influence and connection with government bodies, research institutions, funders and those working on the ground.
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Meet the people who are making the Forest Goal happen
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Caaporã Agrossilvipastoril was among the first companies supported by Vale’s 2030 Forest Goal program. In this video, CEO Luis Fernando Laranja shares a little about that experience. |
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Strengthening Brazil’s National Bioeconomy Policy – case study
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Learn about the results of a research project carried out by a consortium of organizations led by the Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development (CEBDS). The study provided technical support to the Environment and Climate Change Ministry and its Bioeconomy Secretariat in developing the National Bioeconomy Strategy and the National Bioeconomy Development Plan, launched this month following a broad participatory process that brought together government bodies, the private sector, academia, civil society, traditional peoples and communities, and family farmers.
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Did you like the new format of Fundo Vale’s newsletter? |
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Fundo Vale’s priority is to ensure the protection and privacy of our data, so we have reinforced our commitments regarding the collection, storage, treatment and sharing of our personal data, in accordance with Brazil’s General Data Protection Law. |
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