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Amazon Your Business

A colourful account of how doing business in the forests and rivers of the Amazon can contribute to the preservation of nature and local communities. And be profitable! Amazon Your Business provides an overview of sustainable products from all the Amazon countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname.

Amazon Your Business presents fifty (new) consumer products and includes interviews with ministers, entrepreneurs, experts, leaders of international organizations and NGO's and local people. It is great to see that these projects, as undertaken by initiators described in the book, actually prove that it is attractive to manage rainforests sustainably instead of cutting them down. A commercial alternative is provided as a solution to a serious ecological threat.

Mainstream markets in Europe and the USA are on the verge of being swamped by the so called first generation of sustainable quality products from the Amazon.

A few examples of the products portrayed in this book are: a line of gold rings that have been mined in a responsible manner in Colombia, Treetap rubber bags in Brazil, a surf dudes favourite drink made from organic berries. From cosmetics and perfumes to sustainable caiman leather from Bolivia.

Amazon Your Business is a book by Meindert Brouwer, designed by StudioOlykan in Amsterdam.