Amazon Your Business / Opportunities and solutions in the rainforest
a Meindert Brouwer publication designed by Studio Olykan, Amsterdam

Amazon Your Business is the first ever guide to sustainable Amazon products from the rainforests and rivers of all Amazon countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname.

It presents sustainable and viable alternatives for boom and bust-practices in the rainforests of the Amazon: more than fifty (new) consumer products such as body care products, cosmetics, essential oils, shoes of caiman leather, wild rubber bags, rings of gold, medicines, energy drinks, snacks, wild gourmet chocolate, food supplements and furniture.

The book explains how markets work for forest conservation, development cooperation and poverty alleviation. It contains interviews with ministers, entrepreneurs, consultants, leaders of international organisations and local villagers. A network section with contact info and important websites is included. Preview Treetap Wild Rubber, Green Gold

Amazon Your Business is a must for entrepreneurs, politicians, governments, economists, university students and anyone interested in the Amazon, nature conservation, poverty alleviation and sustainable development. Amazon Your Business is available in four editions: English, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese. Order your copy now

Reviews
"The book Amazon Your Business is wonderfully produced, and teeming with important information and ideas." Roger Riddell, director Oxford Policy Management, author of the bestseller Does Foreign Aid Really Work?

"Signs of hope from the Amazon. The book Amazon Your Business is full of inspiring stories about entrepreneurs and activists setting the stage for an Amazon revival."Jay Walljasper in Ode magazine USA

"Brouwer interviewde een onwaarschijnlijk palet aan deskundigen en ministers. Het is bovendien een buitengewoon fraai fotoboek geworden."Jan Bom in P+

"Amazon Your Business é uma publicação inédita." Willem Boone em Sem Fronteiras

"Amazone heeft meer te bieden dan fout hout" Trouw

"Tekenen van hoop uit het regenwoud" Jay Walljasper in Ode magazine Nederland

The publication of Amazon Your Business has been made possible with financial support of the OTCA-DGIS-GTZ-programme of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization OTCA, Amazonat Ecolodges, Both ENDS, Conservation International, Hivos, International Tropical Timber Organization ITTO, Pequeno Foundation, SECO, Solidaridad, Triodos Foundation, UN-organization UNCTAD, Union for Ethical BioTrade and Worldwide Fund for Nature WWF.