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Cesta Basica Sustentavel (Sustainable Food Basket)
Help end poverty, improve the nutrition of children and families, protect biodiversity, decrease deforestation in Brazil!

Cesta Básica Sustentável (CBS) promotes the consumption of nutritional products sustainably cultivated by small farmers and harvested in Brazilian forests. 

This new eating habit that values foods from Brazil’s biodiversity will be made popular through a Museum exhibit showing photos of kids from the Amazon, Atlantic Forest, Cerrado and Caatinga with the foods that compose the Sustainable Food Basket of each region. We are implementing a healthy nutritional diet for all Brazilians, especially the low-income communities, replacing the conventional food basket.

CBS values health, small farmers, agroecology and biodiversity, making this model a blueprint that other countries can adopt.

 

GOALS

To shift cultural habits of consumption valuing the nutritious sustainable food products of the most endangered biomes of Brazil – Caatinga, Cerrado, Atlantic Forest and Amazon – by creating a Pilot model in each region that provides farm to table food from Brazil’s biodiversity that guarantees optimal health and educate the population through an educational campaign that involves a traveling Museum exhibit, Chefs, schools, and media communicators to impact the population.

NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS 
Conventional Food Basket (consumed today by school children and the low-income population of bad carbs, saturated fats, sugar, and salt;)

 ✴ Absence, of fibers, micronutrients, vitamins A and C;
✴ Shortage of proteins; ✴ Industrialized products, genetically-modified products, and carcinogens;
✴ A diet that can cause obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, digestive problems, sub-nutrition, infections, sight problems, bone deficiency, depression, low- immunity, etc.

                Sustainable Food Basket

✴ The appropriate amount of fibers, protein, lipids (healthy fat), vitamins and minerals such as calcium, folic acid, magnesium, vitamin A, C, K, beta-carotene, digestive enzymes, lycopene, etc.
✴ Organic, natural products, free of pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and other harmful items;

 

FOUR PILOTS PROGRAMS IN BRAZIL

     

    AMAZON                                             CERRADO REGION                               CAATINGA REION                 ATLANTIC FOREST REGION

 

SAMPLE OF THE BIODIVERSITY OF CERRADO'S NUTRITION

 BENEFITS

NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS

• Vegetable, fruit and animal products and by-products necessary to a high-quality diet
• Typical regional food items;
• Elaborated by health professionals aiming to offer a nutritious and balanced diet;
• Optimal Nutritional value to improve the population's health;
• Food safety with products of known origin certified with the CBS seal, free of pesticides and chemical additives.

ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS
• The incentive to a sustainable agriculture model;
• Conscious production;
• Preservation of the ecosystem and biodiversity;
• Respect to each regions' soil and climate specificities;
• An incentive to agroecology, agroforestry, and sustainable extractive.

SOCIAL ECONOMIC BENEFITS
• An incentive to replicating the family agriculture model;
• More opportunity to generate income to women and small producers at local markets;
• Better quality products at lower cost;
• The greater variety of food products attracting new investment;
• Economic growth for rural communities and the reduction of urban migration and urban violence;
• More rural credit to small farmers. ✴ The diet that is anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-carcinogen, hypo-allergenic, easy-digesting and assimilation by the organism

Gifts for Change

EMPOWER WOMEN

 Your Gift provides jobs processing forest fruits (jackfruit, banana, mango) and cooking workshop to reduce waste

REDUCE MALNUTRITION IN CHILDREN

Your gift provides healthy meals with fresh vegetables and fruits helping kids perform better in school

BUILD THE SMALL FARMERS NETWORK 

Help us reach out to small farmers in each Pilot region, to add to the basket the necessary nutrients for optimal health

CHANGE THE EATING HABIT THROUGH A MUSEUM EXHIBIT 

Help make popular and educate Children and families about the nutrition of Brazil’s biodiversity through an Exhibit with photos specially created by Gregg Segal depicting children with sustainable foods from the Amazon, Cerrado, Caatinga and Atlantic Forest that compose the Sustainable Food Basket,

SPONSOR WOMEN FARMERS

Sponsor monthly to receive a Sustainable Basket in your home

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