1. Business Description
HALAMO (Inhabitants of the Laguna de Morocoto) is an association formed by an indigenous community of the Laguna de Morocoto reservation about 12 years ago, which has focused on the production of Acai, an Amazonian palm cultivated 
traditionally by various ethnic groups in the territory. This community, thanks to the association, has achieved very important organizational changes and has already had business, financial and administrative learning, which has allowed it to consolidate its company in the local market of the municipality of Inírida. Currently, its sales dominate the local market for Acai, a fruit that is normally consumed in jellies and drinks.
It is an association that has managed to consolidate itself at a local level, and more specifically, to bring together an indigenous reservation around an economic activity, organizing and training themselves to operate the company. Through aid from various projects, they have managed to acquire some assets (pulping machines) and have recently managed to acquire a house near the town centre, located in the El Pajuil reservation, to be able to transform the products more comfortably, since at present they do it in the reservation, which is very far from the points of sale, 3 hours by canoe.
2. Harvesting and production systems
The Acai that is cultivated belongs to the Euterpe oleracea species, and is planted on plots that have been left fallow and that were formerly used as conucos (that is, for crops for food). Currently, the association has about 38 members, half of them are women, and they cultivate about 12 plots as a family, where, in addition to the Acai, other trees of food importance for the families are planted. Additionally, they harvest the fruit of another species of wild Acai, Euterpe precatória, which has not yet been domesticated, but which has other highly valuable organoleptic properties. Wild Acai is grown in the 
found naturally in the various wetlands and lagoons that make up the Laguna de Morocoto reserve, considered a Ramsar site of great ecological importance. In line with the idea of preserving the Amazon, HALAMO promotes an alternative development that does not require the destruction of plant culture, and which today represents a very big change of consciousness for the indigenous community, whose members 12 years ago did not conceive the idea of reforesting the Amazon as logical.
3. Main challenges
The possibilities of opening new markets for this association are quite limited mainly due to the difficulty of transporting to other parts of the country, since roads do not reach Inírida from other places, and all the transport of goods is very expensive since it is done by air or river. Limitations were detected with the knowledge about the reproduction of wild Acai species, which limits its productive capacity.
