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The Colimar: Women's cooperative for mariculture products

Promoters: 
UFSC(Federal University of Santa Catarina), NASdesign-Core Systems Approach, Pósdesign UFSC
Presentation: 
The Colimar - Women's cooperative for mariculture products - Founded in 2003 by the wives of some fishermen in the city of Governador Celso Ramos - Santa Catarina - Brazil, which were grouped in a cooperative in order to add value to products from the fisheries and generate employment and income for families.

 

Project: From the fish and seafood, the fishermen's wives began to produce products such as pastels, dumplings and other frozen foods to sell to restaurants and supermarkets. The expected results and achieved in part are, grab market share for products, standardize production within the parameters of the product quality and satisfaction for workers, and thus promote the economic development of the Cooperative, as well as the town itself from the disclosure and add value to these products, thereby generating the local social development and enhancement of local natural resources.