Enterprise Brief: DeCo! - Decentralized Composting for Sustainable Farming and Development
Published: 24 août 2010
DeCo! offers a composting service to smallholder farmers in Northern Ghana. DeCo! follows a low-tech approach and aims for scalability. The plants are run by highly educated local managers and DeCo! offers parttime work for local people during the off-farming season. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Claire Reid Reel Gardening
Published: 24 août 2010
Reel Gardening is a simple, cost effective and convenient means of growing vegetables, herbs, and flowers from seed. Reel Gardening enables and empowers communities to implement their own sustainable food projects throughout South Africa through a user-friendly and educational medium which can contribute to alleviating food shortages and promote self-sustaining communities. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Biofuel Production in Promoting Sustainable Land Management
Published: 24 août 2010
The Tema Cooperative Sunflowers Association (TCSA) is a multi-integrated model for rehabilitation of degraded community lands through the cultivation and processing of sunflower into oil and biodiesel. The biodiesel is used to power tractors, machines and lanterns and the cake from the sunflower oil is used for feeding and fertilizing. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Amatola Wild Trout Fishery
Published: 24 août 2010
Amatola Wild Trout is the first community-owned and -managed recreational fishery in South Africa. It introduces economic and social development into the Amatolas through the development of an eco tourism attraction. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Profile: High-value Syrup from 'Prekese' Fruits for Community Livelihood Empowerment
Published: 24 août 2010
Relying on local raw materials, this initiative promotes the sustainable cultivation and harvesting of Prekese fruits in rural communities, allowing income to be generated over the whole life cycle of the tree. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative
Published: 24 août 2010
Ghana Bamboo Bikes aims at taking advantage of the abundant raw bamboo materials in Ghana to manufacture high quality bamboo bikes suitable for export markets and for the road conditions in Ghana and affordable to the poor. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Flower of Hope
Published: 24 août 2010
Flower of Hope sets up an innovative production system that offers resourcepoor women land, inputs and professional training as well as market access to become self-employed agricultural entrepreneurs. Relying on environmentally friendly cultivation methods, the initiative produces premium hibiscus for export and domestic herbal tea markets. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: EcoPost - Fencing Posts from Recycled Post-Consumer Waste Plastic
Published: 24 août 2010
GBS Ltd. recycles waste plastic into durable and environmentally-friendly fencing posts. The opportunity was born out of the huge demand for environmentally-friendly and sustainable fencing posts and the abundance of post-consumer waste plastic littering the environment. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Commercialization of Prosopis Juliflora Products from Affected Areas
Published: 24 août 2010
The initiative creates alternative incomes for pastoral communities by manufacturing Prosopis products and helping to generate markets for them. At the same time, the initiative contributes to controlling the spread of this invasive species, thus helping to conserve biodiversity. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Bosque Humedo Biodiverso
Published: 24 août 2010
“Bosque Humedo Biodiverso” is a business initiative headed by a local NGO that uses fruit and pulp as ingredients for the local cosmetics and food industries. The use of non-timber products will reduce deforestation of tropical forests and local families will benefit from collecting value-added goods. This helps develop alternative income sources and promotes the sustainable management of local biodiversity. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Backpack Farm Agriculture Program
Published: 24 août 2010
The Backpack Farm Agriculture Program is an agri-based social enterprise operating in Kenya since 2007. The core of the program is an all-in-one canvas backpack with the eco-friendly agritech and training program supporting smallholder farmers. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: G-lish: Income Generation, Re-Generation, Next Generation
Published: 24 août 2010
G-lish produces baskets from plastic and cloth scraps using traditional Bolgatanga weaving techniques to promote sustainable development in impoverished rural communities. Basket sales are coupled with tree planting and youth development activities to create a culture of environmental conservation. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Food & Trees for Africa
Published: 24 août 2010
Food and Trees for Africa (FTFA) is a social enterprise that is implementing sustainable natural resource management and food security programmes. FTFA has distributed over 3.6 million trees and facilitated the creation of over 2500 organic food gardens for the poorest in South Africa. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Efficient Charcoal Production and Smoke Recycling
Published: 24 août 2010
The Modern Carbonization Programme initiated by Enterprise Multiservices (EMS) is an initiative to improve the wood-energy channel in Rwanda. The partnership aims at introducing modern carbonization and waste recovery technologies as well as more efficient energy supply equipment, such as improved stoves. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Almodo
Published: 24 août 2009
ALMODO, established in 2005, is a sustainable solid waste management system suitable for lower income urban areas. It collects, centralises and ecologically recovers waste and transforms it into products useful for the local community. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Oro Verde
Published: 24 août 2009
Since 2000, Oro Verde has reversed environmental degradation caused by uncontrolled mining in the Chocó Bioregion, by developing certified responsible mining practices. The partnership, consisting of two national NGOs and two grassroots organisations, also reduces social exclusion by strengthening local miners and facilitating market access for them. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Nafore and Afrisolar Energy Kiosks
Published: 24 août 2009
MicroSow and Afrisolar aim to fill the energy gap faced by citizens in rural areas in Burkina Faso. With many people excluded from the official power grid the initiative, through their mobile solarpowered charging stations (Nafore), offers access to sustainable electricity for mobile phones. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Lighting Sri Lanka’s Future
Published: 24 août 2009
In the next 5 years, the partnership aims to convert 20,000 kerosene lanterns into solar-powered LED lighting systems. These can be used by children to study at night and aid night fishermen. The initiative employs between 5 – 10 staff. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: The Clean Energy Initiative
Published: 24 août 2009
Since 2009 the project has provided electricity for rural areas using energy generated from micro wind turbines. This also generates employment and income, and promotes entrepreneurial skills at the local level by providing capacity building trainings. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: KAITE - Zimbabwe's bridge to the world
Published: 24 août 2009
Since 2007, KAITE has been training small-scale farmers to produce, process, and certify organic essential oils, herbs and spices. The 30 employees at KAITE then connect the 500 cooperating partner farmers to international fair trade markets. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Sunny Money
Published: 24 août 2009
Sunny Money, in partnership with microfinance institutions and community-based organisations, has manufactured solar products in local facilities since 2008. The products are sold by micro-franchisees in their communities. There are currently 35 manufacturers and 200 microfranchisees in Kenya and Malawi. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Innovative oyster, fish and algae aqua-farming
Published: 24 août 2009
Since 2006, the tropical multi-species aqua-farm has contributed to food security by providing sustainable supplies of organic oysters, milkfish and tilapia. More recently, they also cultivate micro-algae as livestock feed for fish. The initiative furthermore creates a local source of income and employment. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Planting Empowerment
Published: 24 août 2009
Planting Empowerment (PE) has worked with rainforest communities since 2007 to create investment opportunities in sustainable forestry. This increases tropical forest conservation and promotes sustainable local governance of natural resources while contributing to climate change mitigation. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Eco-Amazon Piabas of Rio Negro
Published: 24 août 2009
The project aims to safeguard traditional ornamental fisheries in the Amazon in a sustainable way by stimulating a niche market. Through a socially and environmentally responsible fishery cooperative and traders, the initiative introduces a fair trade system for rural communities. En savoir plus
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Enterprise Brief: Bio-cultural Community Protocols
Published: 24 août 2009
Natural Justice is working with communities to develop bio-cultural community protocols. These help communities assert their rights to manage their natural resources and regulate access to their traditional knowledge according to their values and customary laws. En savoir plus
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