Savimbo
Savimbo is a B-Corp that pays smallholder farmers and Indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon directly to conserve forest, packaging their stewardship as fair-trade biodiversity, carbon and water credits.
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Savimbo’s methodology rests on community-chosen indicator species (the jaguar in some Colombian communities), with members documenting presence through photo and video evidence over a set period to generate verified biodiversity credits.
It was started by and for Indigenous small farmers, and routes payment directly to stewards rather than through intermediaries, reporting enrolment at roughly 67 hectares per week with high retention.
Its voluntary biodiversity-credit methodology was approved by Cercarbono in September 2024, the first such methodology to be certified.
A working reference for fair-trade, Indigenous-led benefit-sharing whose indicator-species evidence flow is a model of community-captured evidence.
Recent developments
- 2025Highlighted as a culturally grounded nature-financing model, scaling enrolment in the Colombian Amazon with Google Cloud as a startup partner.
- Sep 2024Biodiversity-credit methodology approved by Cercarbono, the first voluntary biodiversity methodology to be certified.
Using Savimbo in a project
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