Comércio D'Natureza Bemdiverso Science diplomacy for sustainable development of small-scale bio-culturally diverse forest and farm product value chains

Promoting science diplomacy for sustainable development of the biodiverse, threatened Brazilian Cerrado savannah. This builds on Dutch-Brazilian trade and diplomatic relationships in agricultural and forest products. Scientists from EMBRAPA, UFV, UnB, Wageningen and Amsterdam Universities will collaborate in inter-disciplinary exchanges on successes, failures and lessons for developing sustainable value chains of forest and farm products, by using multimedia knowledge exchanges between scientists, farmers and harvesters and small enterprises, and then with policymakers. The diplomacy aims to create societal and political value that benefits small-scale farmers and harvesters, maintains forests, natural and cultural diversity, and results in novel Dutch-Brazilian scientific outputs.