GRET has been active in Brazil since 1989 in various family farming support and sustainable natural resource management programmes in the Amazon in partnership with Universities, agronomic research centres, and farmers' organisations. We are involved alongside other French NGOs in a family farming support project on the pioneer frontier in the Pará (active in Cametá, the Transamazonian, and a new area on the pioneer frontier in San Felix do Xingu /Tucumã).

We also undertake numerous project assessment and monitoring missions (for the FGEF, PPG7, and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs), and we moderate Franco-Brazilian exchange networks on family farming and sustainable management of the Amazon forest.

GRET also participated in another innovative experiment in the field of urban development in Fortaleza, developing do-it-yourself popular construction programmes combining housing improvement, job creation, and inhabitant organisation in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. It maintains relations with numerous associations and municipalities.

Contacts:
GRET's local representative Philippe Sablayrolles, sablayrolles@gret.org
Country Coordinator: Christian Castellanet, castellanet@gret.org

Ongoing Activities in Brazil (13 project(s))

		Trans-Amazonian Agro-Ecology Project
		PAET
		Field Project Dates: 2000 - 2000 Countrie(s) / Region(s): Brazil Partner(s): Transamazonian Agro-Ecological Laboratory (LAET); Universidade Federal do Pará; EMBRAPA (Brazilian agronomic research); MPST (regional farmers’ organisation) Donor(s): European Union Cluster: EDR
		Sustainable development of family farming and preservation of the Amazon Forest. The goal of this project is preparing an alternative sustainable agroforestry development proposal with the active participation and adhesion of local small farmers’ organisations. This is attempted by promoting dialogue and negotiation between local organisations and public authorities around a regional programme seeking to stabilise and strengthen family farming, stop deforestation and better manage forest resources. GRET acts as project manager and implements the project in partnership with LAET (the Transamazonian Agro-Ecological Laboratory), the Universidade Federal do Pará, EMBRAPA and the "Mouvement Pour la Survie de la Transamazonienne" (MPST, movement for the survival of the Transamazonian).

		Monitoring and Support Mission for the FGEF/PROTER Project "Community Development and Atlantic Forest Protection in the Iguapé Jureia Region"
		FGEF/PROTER Project Monitoring
		Technical Support Dates: 1999 - 2001 Countrie(s) / Region(s): Brazil Partner(s): MATE; FGEF; French Embassy in Brasilia; CNEARC , PROTER; REBRAF; AS- PTA Donor(s): MATE Cluster: EDR
		This is an annual monitoring and support mission to the FGEF project implemented by the NGO PROTER in the Iguapé Jureia region in southern Brazil, carried out for the French Ministry of Territorial Planning and the Environment. The goal of this project is to show, through pilot actions, that it is possible to reconcile development for traditional populations with natural resource protection.

		Amazon Forest Network: Developing Sustainable Production and Consumption Channels for Forest Products from the Amazon
		Study Dates: 2001 - 2003 Countrie(s) / Region(s): Brazil Partner(s): WWF ; Friends of the Earth ; ONF Internationale ; wood enterprises , Amigos da Terra ; Amazonia brazileira Donor(s): French Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Department of Strategy, Programming and Evaluation Cluster: EDR
		In order to optimise sustainable management of the Amazon forest in Brazil, GRET has been entrusted with building an information network on production and consumption channels for wood products in France and Brazil. The Amazon Forest Network has several objectives, the most important of which is to bring the various stakeholders concerned (enterprises, NGOs, environmentalists, small producers' or-ganisations, government authorities, etc.) into contact with each other. It also makes it possible to identify innovative experiences in the field of sustainable management and analyse product certification and commercialisation initiatives. It also aims to encour-age Franco-Brazilian partnerships between concerned organisations.