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Banco da Amazônia offers grants for Amazon bioeconomy projects
Banco da Amazônia is opening a grant program for bioeconomy projects in Brazil’s Legal Amazon, with the announcement at the COP31 climate conference in Antalya, Turkey.
Up to 25 small businesses, startups, associations and cooperatives can receive R$300,000 each, for a planned total of R$7.5 million.
The funding is a non-repayable grant, backed by a partnership with the French Development Agency, and applications are open until December 11.
Eligible projects can come from any forest-based bioeconomy supply chain, but applicants must already have products or services on the market.
The program aims to strengthen sustainable Amazon businesses across all nine states of the Legal Amazon and improve their production and sales.
Better tracking of where products come from may also help them meet international environmental rules, including new European Union restrictions on goods linked to deforestation.
The bank says this is the program’s second round; its 2025 round funded 27 projects with R$4 million in total.
Banco da Amazônia is launching a grant program for bioeconomy projects in Brazil’s Legal Amazon.
Up to 25 eligible organizations can receive R$300,000 each, with R$7.5 million available in total.
Applications are open until December 11.
The grants are non-repayable and are funded through a partnership with the French Development Agency.
The announcement is being made during the COP31 climate conference in Antalya, Turkey.
- Who
- Banco da Amazônia is offering the grants to micro and small businesses, startups, associations and cooperatives based in the region’s nine states.
- What
- The bank is offering non-repayable grants for bioeconomy projects. Up to 25 organizations can receive R$300,000 each.
- When
- The call for applications is being published on November 10, 2026. Applications close on December 11.
- Where
- The projects must be based in Brazil’s Legal Amazon. The announcement is being made at COP31 in Antalya, Turkey.
- Why
- The program aims to strengthen and organize Amazon bioeconomy supply chains, improve production and sales, and encourage innovation.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
In the first Amabio call, Banco da Amazônia selected 27 projects in five states and awarded a total of R$4 million.
Banco da Amazônia is publishing the second call for applications during COP31.
The application period is scheduled to close.
- Total funding
- R$7.5 million
- Grant per organization
- R$300,000
- Maximum recipients
- 25
- Eligible area
- The nine states of Brazil’s Legal Amazon
- Funding source
- Partnership with the French Development Agency
What people are saying
The Amazon bioeconomy already exists; it is not something new.
It needs to be structured and organized in the supply chains to improve production and marketing capacity, with sustainability and traceability, so that products have greater added value, especially for the foreign market.
We know that much of the bioeconomy is based on harvesting, and there are ways to automate it to improve production.