The Agir program – Support for Income Generation and Increase works to incubate and accelerate social businesses through training, technical advice, mentoring in financial management, governance, formalization, production and marketing of local businesses. Entrepreneurs are involved in all these stages so that, by the end of the program, their business models become autonomous. The aim […]
The Rural Development Center of the Arari Knowledge Station seeks to be a Center of Excellence in Permaculture and Bioconstruction that promotes and generates social technologies and solutions for the sustainable production of family farming in nearby communities. Supported by the Vale Foundation, its technical partners are the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) and professors […]
The project aims to support the structuring of sustainable rural production arrangements for family farmers in Minas Gerais and Maranhão. It is carried out in partnership with Instituto Meio and with complementary investments from BNDES within the scope of the Socio-Environmental Fund.
The Women of Maranhão Network is a collective formed by social businesses that were incubated, accelerated, and graduated by the Agir program (Support for Income Generation and Increase) on the Carajás Railroad – EFC. The social businesses are mostly composed by women who sold products through the windows of the EFC passenger train and who lost their […]