Imaflora (Institute for Agriculture and Forest Management and Certification) is a Brazilian non-profit organization that strives to promote changes in the forest and agricultural sectors.  The Institute believes that, by encouraging good production practices, it is possible to promote the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources and generate social benefits. For Imaflora it is feasible and necessary to seek new ways of producing goods and services that could bring together conservation and socioeconomic development.  That is why it values and disseminates positive examples and works towards solutions that are constructed and negotiated in a balanced and representative way with various sectors of society. www.imaflora.org


Amigos da Terra - Amazônia Brasileira, founded in 1989, is a Public Interest Civil Society Organization, recognised by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice. It promotes public interests, such as human rights, public participation and development, by ascribing value to natural capital. It is active in public policies, markets, local communities and in the information world, through innovative activities. It has a priority focus, but not exclusive, on the Amazon region.
The organization is completely independent. It participates in international networks such as BankTrack - that follows the financial sector and its impacts on people and the planet - and BICECA at a South American scale, as well as maintains partnership agreements with member groups of the Friends of the Earth International network in several countries, without, however, any formal connection. The organization also provides secretariat to the Brazilian Buyers' Group of Certified Forest Products. www.amazonia.org.br