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Asociación para el Manejo y la Conservación de la Reserva Comunal Yanesha (AMARCY)
Organization of the Yanesha communities that co-manages the Yanesha Communal Reserve with Sernanp and, through its social enterprise, helps the reserve's families produce and sell native cacao and chocolate.
How can AMARCY help your biobusiness?
- What it offers
co-management of the communal reserve with SernanpIndigenous social enterprise for marketingsupport for cacao-growing families
- At what stage
- I'm already operating
- Who it serves
- Indigenous communities
- Products
- Cacao
- Where it works
- Pasco
How do you access AMARCY?
- Can you apply directly?
- Yes, it serves biobusinesses directly.
- Do you need a business that already operates?
- It depends
- How hard is it to access?
- Access: no data
- Do you pay or co-fund?
- To be agreed
- Where does the money come from?
- Blended
Mapping classification: It works with the native communities of the Yanesha Communal Reserve and sells their cacao through its own social enterprise, with support from Conservation International. It serves the reserve's communities; the sources do not say whether it serves others, hence no data on complexity.
Who does AMARCY overlap with?
Organizations in the map working on the same products in the same departments. It is not a declared relationship: it is an overlap in the data, useful to look for synergies.
Sources and references
Dated public data behind this profile. What is published does not reflect everything an organization does.
It co-manages with the State the Yanesha Communal Reserve (Pasco), created in 1988 as the first of its kind in the country; through its social enterprise Ko'wen Poetsath it sells wild cacao and 70% and 80% chocolates under the Koyanesha and Espe brands, the latter winner of the 2019 National Chocolate Fair Award. El Búho (Red de Medios Regionales del Perú): Amazonía peruana: el modelo sostenible que une negocios, bosques y pueblos indígenas
Its co-management model with a social enterprise is being shared with communities in Madre de Dios, Cusco and Amazonas. El Búho (Red de Medios Regionales del Perú): Amazonía peruana: el modelo sostenible que une negocios, bosques y pueblos indígenas
The social enterprise brings together 10 native communities of the reserve, which covers more than 74,000 hectares, and 102 cacao-growing families selling native, criollo and common cacao; it was created with support from Conservation International and its Our Future Forests-Amazonia Verde project. Conservación Internacional Perú: Creation of the first Indigenous social enterprise of the Yanesha Communal Reserve