ORGANIC BRAZIL NUTS

The Brazil nuts we sell all come from Bolivia. During the 10 years of work in Latin America, Rewild had the opportunity to visit various wooded production areas and various processing plants, deepening and ensuring knowledge of the entire production chain.
The entire production is entirely entrusted to the expert hands of Mother Nature, patiently looked after by the BellaVista cooperative.
The collection and transport (mostly fluvial) to the collection and processing centers, is carried out, on the other hand, by the indigenous peoples who thus guarantee the conservation of the forest.
Finally, the processing and sale are carried out by various companies. In particular, our nuts are processed by two companies in the Riberalta area. The first is a family-run business founded in the late 80s and the other, more recent, founded in 2006, organic and fair trade.
Both are distinguished by three fundamental characteristics:

· effectively controlled production processes, which guarantee high quality standards;
· decent work for their staff;
· collaboration agreements with indigenous collectors associations, which include the technical assistance necessary for the inclusion of these realities in the Fair Trade system.

Through the purchase of organic Brazil nuts from original and/or fair trade forests, we try to guarantee, on the one hand, the conservation of important areas of the Amazon forest and, on the other, the economic and social development of the indigenous peoples who are responsible for the harvest, but also of the rural communities engaged in processing and sale.

Related to the collection and processing of Brazil nuts, there are two orders of socio-environmental repercussions to consider:

· valuing sustainable economic activities in the Amazon rainforest based on local biodiversity, improving the human impact on the ecosystem.

· reward the work and traditional knowledge of indigenous and rural populations active in the collection and processing of nuts and other wild products.