Program overview

Title: FASB

Aim: Forest restoration, sustainable land use to build a unique large-scale ecological corridor through Hileia Baiana

Duration: First cycle 2021-2024 (closed); Second cycle 2024-2030 (details below)

Location: Hileia Baiana, Far South of Bahia and North of Espírito Santo  

Total investment: €8m

Supporters: KIRKBI, BNDES, Suzano 

Managers: – iNovaland, FUNBIO

FASB Profile

FASB is an incubation and acceleration program that follows the project cycle through its various stages, providing technical assistance from inception to full implementation, supporting the evolution of projects from the initial stages until they are ready. This approach reduces risk, enables high quality and accelerates expansion.

Starting its activities in April 2021, FASB invested 3 million euros in 45 socio-environmental projects in southern Bahia with 34 different institutions, benefiting the environment and families in 23 municipalities located in the South and Far South of Bahia, Brazil.

For the period 2024-26, eight million euros are programmed for the creation of an ecological corridor in Hileia Baiana, which will be applied through two lines of action: Connecting Landscapes, and Corredor da Mata.

Hileia Baiana - Name given to the pristine forest that originally occupied an area that extended from the current south of Bahia to the north of Espírito Santo.

Aim

FASB's main focus is on working with traditional communities to transform the landscape through the development of projects. Its actions are based on mobilizing local communities with the aim of building resilient and biodiverse ecosystems with people as the central element, driving local actions focused on sustainable development to connect fragments of the Atlantic Forest.

In this way, FASB has become a multistakeholder platform, formed by its project developers: indigenous communities, quilombos, settlements, family farmers and regional NGOs, resulting in the formation of a network aimed at exchanging knowledge, inputs and labor. FASB has local and remote teams specializing in socio-environmental projects, which operate strongly in the regions where the projects are located.

Objectives

FASB adopts an innovative bottom-up approach that supports locally-led projects through a stepwise approach: from providing technical assistance and initial funding to support people develop their ideas, to incubating promising projects and enabling them to scale up by attracting commercial investment.  
FASB supports projects such as forest restoration, agroforestry, sustainable land use and climate-resilient food production at a landscape scale and through a systems approach. The activities include: planting trees to restore riparian forests zones, environmental and climate change education, capacity building and implementation of best practices for sustainable timber production.

With this approach, the FASB aims to:

  • create a 500 km ecological corridor 
  • connect 150,000 hectares of forest fragments
  • restore 3,000 hectares of new forest


FASB is localizing the achievement of sustainable development in Brazil by contributing to the following UN-SDGs.

FASB Progress

Celebramos um marco importante em 2024, destacando-se pelo progresso dos projetos e conclusão do primeiro ciclo, com mais de 484.600 mil reais investidos somente este ano e cerca de 334 mil reais entre 2021 e 23 destinados aos projetos. Com mais um ano de atuação, os projetos entregaram o total de 851 ha de área sob restauração florestal. Até 2027, os projetos do primeiro ciclo, do Corredor da Mata e Floresta Viva – Conectando Paisagens, têm a previsão de implementar 1.919 ha.

Veja abaixo os principais indicadores dos três princípios norteadores do trabalho do FASB:

Manter e restaurar a integridade do ecossistema

As ações de restauração da Mata Atlântica e o progresso socioambiental dos projetos contemplados tiveram representativo incremento, conforme registrado pelos indicadores apresentados nos relatórios de monitoramento de cada projeto:

  • 481 ha de área sob restauração de ecossistemas;
  • 332.721 árvores plantadas, sendo 171.935 em área de restauração florestal, 225 árvores para uso comercial e 160.561 de árvores em áreas de agricultura sustentável;
  • 190 ha de plantio em agricultura sustentável;
  • 291 ha de reflorestamento;
  • 281.984 mudas produzidas;
  • 3,2 toneladas de sementes coletadas; 

Garantir a inclusão e o envolvimento das partes interessadas

O engajamento e desenvolvimento das comunidades sejam rurais e tradicionais envolvidas nos projetos, é construído com uma abordagem colaborativa de baixo para cima empoderando diretamente quem está na ponta de todo o processo de reflorestamento para que seja uma evolução do coletivo, conforme mostram os resultados abaixo:

  • 274 mutirões para plantio de árvores, coleta de sementes, e construções de infraestrutura) com 4.965 participantes;
  • 2.151 famílias diretamente envolvidas;
  • 5,749 famílias indiretamente beneficiadas;
  • 886 funcionários envolvidos. 

Apoio ao crescimento verde, empregos e desenvolvimento socioeconômico

O FASB oferece um caminho diferente em direção às metas globais sobre o clima, natureza e desenvolvimento social. Nossas parcerias são com comunidades, historicamente desprovidas de capacidade financeira e conhecimento técnico, e que agora estão na vanguarda dos esforços de restauração, assumindo totalmente a propriedade e a liderança de seus projetos. Conheça os principais resultados de 2024:

  • 207 treinamentos e cursos realizados com 3,459 participantes;
  • R$ 484.636,96 de receita gerada por intervenções nos meios de subsistência por produto. 

The year 2023 was a milestone for FASB. The project has consolidated itself in the territory and has become a recognized brand with a total of 45 projects implemented by 34 different institutions.  
Below are the indicators (2021-23) taken from the monitoring reports delivered for the project categories totaling 330ha currently executed against the 1,229ha contracted (27%). 
With a total investment of €2,600,000 in funds received, €1,392,850 has already been invested and €1,567,150 remains to be allocated to complete the first investment cycle for all the projects approved in the six calls for proposals that began in April 2021.

Forest recovery

The projects are carried out in one of the most important biodiversity hotspots on the planet: the Atlantic Rainforest.

  • 231 hectares under natural forest/ecosystem restoration activities
  • 35 hectares of area under productive forest restoration activities
  • 330 hectares total area under ecosystem restoration
  • 154,135 native trees planted for natural ecosystem restoration purposes
  • 1667 hectares of area under riparian improvement activities

Sustainable agriculture

We support a future in which people and nature live in harmony by promoting sustainable land use to improve food security for vulnerable communities.

  • 64 hectares of area under responsible agricultural activities
  • 540 exotic or native trees planted for commercial purposes
  • 70,144 agroforestry trees planted
  • 1,313kg of 157 seeds collected + 90,375.00 seedlings produced from 216 species + sustainable agriculture is the volume of products generated from livelihood interventions, by product


Social

We put communities at the center of our work. As a result, several families and workers have been involved in the project's actions, both directly and indirectly (by taking part in training and learning from examples). Both in the implementation of the project and in the improvement of actions, training, courses and meetings. 

  • 193 meetings held
  • 2,651 participants involved in meetings 
  • 1,322 people trained 
  • R$ 334,157 in revenue generated from livelihood interventions, per product

Total trees planted

During this period, 224,789 trees of 190 different species were planted, of which ~170 were native and ~20 exotic. 

In the first 2 years, the FASB invested 1,180,000 Euros in 23 different projects. These projects cover a range of activities, supporting forest recovery and sustainable agriculture:

Recuperação
florestal

The projects are carried out in one of the most important biodiversity hotspots on the planet: the Atlantic Rainforest.

  • 782 hectares of contracts agreed
  • 1,482 hectares of surveying agreed 
  • 6,660 hectares of ecological corridor connections contracted 
  • 2,992 hectares of connections under surveying 

Agricultura
sustentável

We support a future in which people and nature live in harmony by promoting sustainable land use to improve food security for vulnerable communities.

  • 399 hectares of contracts agreed 
  • 368 hectares under surveying 
  • 1,606 families impacted directly and more than 2,500 indirectly

FASB has also supported other projects to access financing from third parties. This additional funding has delivered:

  • 200 hectares of forest restoration
  • 470 hectares of sustainable agriculture

FASB's Projet

The map below shows the FASB projects in the different areas of implementation.

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