Enterprise Brief: Proplanet
Published: 31 août 2014
Proplanet transforms materials that are hard-to-recycle, such as long-life Tetra Pak and plastified paper, into paper fibre, sustainable construction materials, and urban furniture, thereby reducing pressure on landfills. Through biodegradable food packaging with FSC certification, it helps to substitute plastics. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Diseclar
Published: 31 août 2014
Diseclar has developed a method to create furniture made from recycled plastic and agro-industrial waste including sugar cane pulp, coffee and rice chaff. Customers benefit from long-lasting products, while the local community benefits from job creation and positive environmental impacts. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Recycling for Environmental Recovery
Published: 31 août 2014
The enterprise will establish a plastics recycling plant to produce secondary raw materials for the plastics industry in Morocco and abroad. It seeks to improve health and safety for waste workers, particularly those involved in waste collection. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Honey Products Industries
Published: 31 août 2014
Honey Products Industries creates an agribusiness value chain out of high-quality honey. The honey is sourced from independent smallholder beekeepers, packaged and processed in factory hubs and distributed across the country via a franchise model. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Electricity4all
Published: 31 août 2014
Electricity4All provides solar battery kits that can power households and small-to-medium businesses, independent from the grid, by using renewable solar energy. By implementing a network of solar energy kiosks, Electricity4All improves access to affordable and sustainable electricity in rural communities En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Last Forest Enterprises
Published: 31 août 2014
Last Forest provides a marketing platform for 68 kinds of organic and forest-based products and spreads the message of fair trade principles, sustainable harvesting, biodiversity and value-added indigenous products. Incubated by the Keystone Foundation, the enterprise also provides business development services. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Asrat and Helawi Engineering Partnership
Published: 31 août 2014
The enterprise manufactures clean cookstoves for homes, businesses and institutions such as prisons and universities. The products – which reduce indoor air pollution and fuel costs – are sold mainly by a network of independent urban retailers. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Fundación Huellas Verdes
Published: 31 août 2014
Fundación Huellas Verdes offers enterprises and institutions a means to offset their carbon emissions by planting vetiver, a grass storing carbon in its roots. When introduced to areas with slopes at risk of landslides, vetiver protects neighbouring communities by preventing erosion. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: JITA Social Business Bangladesh Ltd.
Published: 31 août 2014
JITA generates income opportunities for poor women through an innovative and commercially viable rural distribution network while providing product access for communities. Initially run as a financially sustainable CARE Bangladesh project, JITA now is a reincorporated social enterprise empowering around 8,000 women. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Baobab Products Mozambique
Published: 31 août 2014
Baobab Products Mozambique (BPM) creates a local value chain around Baobob fruits, buying pulp and seeds from women harvesters, before processing it into nutrient-rich powder and oils. The products are sold nationally and internationally. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Kumudzi Kuwale
Published: 31 août 2014
Kumudzi Kuwale Ltd. supplies sustainable energy independent from the national power grid. Rural communities thus gain access to energy through solar devices and systems installed by the enterprise, by renting battery packs or by purchasing solar products and efficient cookstoves. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Energy Unlimited
Published: 31 août 2014
Powered By Nature (PbN) provides affordable clean energy devices for households by importing and locally sourcing products, training entrepreneurs and sub-distributors in marketing them, and retailing through its own stores. Through its activities, the enterprise reduces energy poverty in Malawi. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Switch ON- ONergy
Published: 31 août 2014
The enterprise overcomes the obstacle of last-mile distribution of solar energy products by providing solar energy solutions to rural communities using a full-service distribution infrastructure. Through partner collaboration, the enterprise trains rural entrepreneurs, funds innovative development projects and provides after-sales services to customers. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Frontier Markets
Published: 31 août 2014
Frontier Markets (FM) is a sales and service distribution company that provides access to affordable clean energy products. By creating service and repair centres, focusing on education and following an end-to-end supply chain, FM improves energy access in rural India for low-income families. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Mozambikes
Published: 06 juillet 2014
Mozambikes assembles and sells quality bikes at affordable prices. It customises bikes with logos and colours and encourages companies and non-profit organisations to buy advertising space or branded bikes outright and distribute them to rural areas. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Agroforestry Practices and Economic Empowerment
Published: 31 août 2013
Agroforestry Practices and Economic Empowerment targets farmers through community groups, enabling them to plant native trees, fruit tree species and various crops that are sold through the local grocery markets. While generating income for its participants, the enterprise contributes to forest conservation. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: New Sun Road
Published: 31 août 2013
Southeast Asia Renewable & Adaptive Energy (SEA-RAE) provides sustainable energy infrastructure for small, remote communities in Southeast Asia. It supplies grid technologies such as photovoltaic arrays and hydro-energy harvesters that are adapted to the needs of local communities and increase their resilience to climate change. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Dichung.vn
Published: 31 août 2013
Dichung.vn is an online platform that helps reduce traffic jams and environmental pollution in urban areas of Vietnam. An easy-to-use website and application connect users so they can share empty seats on various types of vehicles and so reduce carbon emissions. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Josmak International (U) Ltd
Published: 31 août 2013
Pumpkin Value Addition Enterprise provides training on pumpkin value addition skills, marketing and financial management to vulnerable groups of women, encouraging them to start their own businesses. In the mentoring it provides for pumpkin growing, the enterprise promotes sustainable agricultural practices. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: GRS Commodities Ltd
Published: 31 août 2013
GRS Commodities Ltd. promotes off-grid renewable bio-energy in Uganda and the surrounding Great Lakes region. The enterprise applies waste-to-energy concepts which utilise biomass in rural communities while also focusing on better waste utilisation farms, with the goal of energy recovery and cleaner agricultural production. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Cocoa Project
Published: 31 août 2013
Green Organic Watch Growers Cooperative Society Ltd promotes certified organic cocoa production, promoting sustainable farming practices so farmers can tap into speciality export markets. While continuously improving smallholder farms in terms of production, productivity and quality, the enterprise contributes to sustainable agricultural and green business development. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Nuru Energy
Published: 31 août 2013
Nuru Energy provides portable rechargeable lights and the first commercially available pedal power generators, giving rural communities energy for their daily activities. By introducing an affordable alternative to kerosene, the enterprise also helps reduce CO2 emissions. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Blessed Bee for Life
Published: 31 août 2013
The beekeeping enterprise Blessed Bee for Life provides farmers with tools and equipment for beehives, teaches them about beekeeping and helps them sell their honey products. Women are fully integrated into production, reducing not only poverty but also environmental degradation. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Awamu Biomass Energy Ltd.
Published: 31 août 2013
Awamu Biomass Energy Ltd. produces and distributes micro-gasifier improved cookstoves that use renewable energy from readily available dry organic waste. The enterprise is also increasing agricultural profitability and sustainability through the environmentally responsible production of fuel for the stoves. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Solar Serve
Published: 31 août 2013
Solar Serve specialises in the manufacture and distribution of solar cookstoves and clean cookstoves. Customers benefit from reduced costs for fuels and improved health, while pressure on the environment is decreased due to the reduction of deforestation and carbon emissions. En savoir plus
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