Agriculture and livestock
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Alter Eco
Alter Eco is a French-based alternative trading organization, founded in 1999, which specializes in the import and distribution of Fairtrade products. Alter Eco products are offered in several French mass retailers such as Monoprix, Cora (hypermarket)|Cora, Match, System U, Leclerc and...
Honey Care Africa
Honey Care Africa was established in 2000 as an innovative private sector social enterprise to promote sustainable community-based beekeeping in Eastern Africa. It was set up with an explicit triple bottom-line agenda, with an emphasis on generating economic, social and environmental values...
Cercle des Secheurs (CDS)
CDS is an organization supporting women producer groups in producing and marketing dried fruit and vegetables in Burkina Faso. The organization was founded in 1992 and was officially registered in 1995 as a Groupement d'Interet Economique (GIE), and subsequently acquired its own export...
Community Rehabilitation Advocates For Transformation (C.R.A.F.T.)
Community Rehabilitation Advocates for Transformation (C.R.A.F.T.) is a registered Non Governmental Organization in Ghana with registration # 37-317. OUR MISSION To create an enabling environment through achievable and sustainable initiatives aimed at promoting positive change for the inclusion...
Development Action for Marginalised Rural Areas (DAMRA)
Development Action for Marginalised Rural Areas (DAMRA) is an NGO operating in some of the most marginalized areas in Malawi, currently focusing on Rumphi and adjacent districts of northern Malawi. DAMRA aims to assist in working towards hunger free and healthy communities by helping people to...
Hope For All / Care Givers Foundation
Hope For All / Care Givers Foundation works amongst the less privileged,orphans and youths. we provide all kinds of services that can help alleviate poverty in our country.our authorization from the government is that of service provider. therefor any organization can partner with us if they are...
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Founded in 1984, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is a non-profit scientific research organisation based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. With research projects in 21 countries in Asia and Africa, IWMI focuses on the sustainable use of water and land resources in agriculture. Its...
Partnership to help farmers in Africa increase crop yields and hope for the future
In 2005, Millennium Promise launched with a vision to end extreme poverty in our lifetime. As the leading international nonprofit organization solely committed to supporting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Promise believes that innovative partnerships and an...
SEKEM: A Holistic Egyptian Initiative
After living in Austria for 21 years, Ibrahim Abouleish returned home to Egypt to do something about the difficulties he observed during visits. In 1977, he founded the Sekem initiative to promote social and environmental development through economic and cultural activities.
Microcredit from Grameen Bank in Bangladesh: Phone ladies
In partnership with ITU (the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies), the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh has brought mobile phone services to the most isolated villages. Poor rural women now operate small businesses providing public call services to their...
Sustainable Cashew Production in Guinea
Guinea grows about 5,000 tons of raw cashew nuts a year. Meanwhile, its much smaller neighbour Guinea-Bissau, with similar soil and climate, produces 80,000 tons. Encouraged by the growing consumer demand for cashews, Guinea has begun to focus on expanding cashew production—a good candidate for...
Integrated Tamale Fruit Company: Organic Mangoes Improving Livelihoods for the Poor in Ghana
The Integrated Tamale Fruit Company—operating in the Savelugu-Nanton District in Ghana’s Northern Region, an area of widespread poverty—cultivates certified organic mangos for local and export markets. To boost its power in the export market with higher production volumes, the company established a...
Amanco: Providing Irrigation Systems to the Rural Poor
For decades, small farmers in Latin America have faced a grim outlook: low productivity and inefficiency. That was the background for the decision of Amanco, a subsidiary of the conglomerate GrupoNueva, to develop a hybrid value chain model for serving low-income markets. As part of that plan, the...
Votorantim Celulose e Papel (VCP) in Brazil: Planting eucalyptus in partnership with the rural poor
Brazil suffers from high income inequality and widespread poverty, especially in rural areas. Despite recent policies to support rural settlements through land reform, a mismatch remains between the rural population’s social demands and the state’s capacity to respond.
Working with the community to grow coconut tree business in Indonesia
Due to the abundance and ubiquity of coconut trees and plantations in Indonesia, there are potentially enormous social and commercial benefits that can be gained from integrating local communities in the production of high value coconut-based products. Indonesia has about 3.7 million hectare of...
Vitmark partners with small scale fruit farmers in Ukraine
Annually Vitmark, a leading beverages producer, purchases about 40,000 tons of fresh fruits and vegetables from small–scale farmers (more than 2,500 employees) and from about 25 large domestic agricultural suppliers in Ukraine.
Coffee company benefits small scale Indonesian farmers and increases employment
P.T. Toarco Jaya, subsidiary of Key Coffee Ltd., a large Japanese company, established a brand of specialty coffee called “Toarco Toraja” by procuring Arabica coffee from Indonesian farmers, and by running its own coffee plantation in the country.
Opportunities to improve productivity provided for small farmers within Colombian pepper supply chain
Hugo Restrepo y Cia has over 30 years of experience in the food industry, especially in chili paste, with exports to the US, Europe and the Middle East. In 2000, in partnership with the Carvajal Foundation, the company initiated a project with the objective to continuously improve the productivity...
Reuters Market Light: Creating Efficient Markets
Reuters Market Light (RML), a business incubated by Thomson Reuters, is a pioneering mobile phone-based agri information service provider. The service is designed to provide farmers with personalised timely and actionable agricultural information from pre-sowing to post-harvest stages through SMS...
Pot-in-pot Enterprise: Fridge for the Poor
In 2000, Mohammed Bah Abba was awarded the Rolex Award for Enterprise for his innovative Pot-in-Pot system to provide affordable, electricity free, refrigeration in arid Nigeria.