This edition:
The fourth edition of the SEED Newsletter is filled with exciting news:
News at SEED
OPEN: Call for proposals 2010 SEED Awards
Start-up social and environmental entrepreneurs working in partnership in countries with developing and emerging economies can now apply for a 2010 SEED Award; the call is open up till 16 August 2010. Read more on how to apply.
SEED’s special focus on Africa
This year, SEED is not only undertaking a major expansion, with up to 35 SEED Awards, but as part of an EU funded project, it is also introducing a specific focus on the African continent, read more…
SEED’s first country pilot in South Africa
Financed by the EU, SEED launches its first country pilot in South Africa to bring the idea of SEED and the benefits of a Green Economy closer to South African policy makers and businesses. The aim is to create a national community of successful social and environmental entrepreneurs to increase business opportunities and encourage more businesses to integrate social and environmental benefits into their business model. It will also allow for deeper insights into the opportunities and challenges presented to such start-up entrepreneurs while showcasing the benefits green economy can bring. Read more…
The SEED website has a new look
Discover the new SEED website and our new Facebook and give us your feedback.
SEED support and tools
The entrepreneurs’ toolkit is launched
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the SEED Initiative
have recently launched the Toolkit at the GLOBE International Conference & Trade Fair on Business and the Environment in Canada. In the form of a wiki, entrepreneurs can get information or share their knowledge about a whole range of issues relating to social and environmental enterprise. Please share YOUR experience or learn from others here.
Updates from past SEED winners
System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
SRI Global Marketing Partnership, one of the 2005 SEED award winners, has become the catalyst for an international enterprise, exporting many tons of certified organic and fair trade rice grown by small farm families. Read more…
2005 SEED Winner Blue Ventures continues to progress.
Blue Ventures, one of SEED’s first winners in 2005, who created Madagascar’s first community-run marine protected area, received international praise and has now been awarded the IUCN Young Conservationist Award 2010. Read more…
SEED Winners book success with the help of the Small Grants Programme
The Global Environmetal Facility Small Grants programme (SGP) has recently granted the women’s group ‘Solar Women of Totogalpa ‘, a partner in the 2008 SEED winning initiative 'Lighting Up Hope and Communities'. Click here to find out more about their contributions to SEED Winners.
New Partnerships for 2007 SEED Winner “Nueva Vida”
“Nueva Vida” (New Life), a 2007 SEED Winner based in the Ecuadorian Andes and re-introducing native Andean agricultural crops, over the last years has managed to expand and built new partnerships. Click here
to learn more how their new partnerships with USAID, Kraft Foods and university experts have helped them develop further.
2009 SEED winner from the Cook Islands expands to Africa and Asia
‘Innovative fish and algae aqua-farming’ in the Cook Islands, a 2009 SEED Winner that co-farms fish with shellfish and micro-algae in inland ponds, is replicating its activities in Nigeria and Pakistan. Read more…
Events and publications
SEED in Tällberg
To join the discussions around social entrepreneurship and build networks that can potentially benefit SEED winners and the SEED programme, SEED participated in the ‘5th YES Summit -Rework the World’ in Leksand Sweden, from 3rd -6th June 2010. For more information on the summit click here.
SEED’s Executive Director attends the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) in Bamako, Mali
SEED’s Executive Director joined the 12th session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) in Bamako, Mali on 20-25 June), where she launched the 2010 Awards for entrepreneurship in sustainable development during a UNEP-hosted event on the green economy at AMCEN.
UN Commission on Sustainable Development 18 (CSD 18)
SEED’s Executive Director travelled to New York in May to attend CSD 18. Jointly with IISD, SEED conducted an event at the Partnerships Fair.
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