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Supporting Pesticide-free Cotton Farms that Contribute to Greener Agriculture and a Better Environment

Tsubame Towel Corporation is encouraging the spread of environmentally friendly organic cotton and also supporting the work of organic farmers in India.

Hokkaido Fuyumizu-tambo (Winter-flooded Rice Paddies) Project

This project has established a wet-paddy winter approach for Hokkaido and is a multifaceted endeavor with myriad benefits, among them establishing and spreading farming rice paddies without the use of pesticides or chemical fertilizers. This has contributed to the conservation of biodiversity and the production of rice that is both safe and has added value. In addition, it has also helped environmental education and the development of local communities.

The Road to Kamaka: struggles of poverty and desertification

Case prepared by Joseph EL-KHOURY & Professor Luciano BARIN-CRUZ. The team participated in several cultural workshops that introduced them to aspects of Malian culture, such as gender dynamics, values, customs, and important health precautions. Halfway through their retreat, the team was given specific tasks that they would be responsible for executing in Kamaka.

Biodiversity monitoring

Nestlé is a multinational packaged foods company founded in 1922 and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, with a market capitalization of over $93 billion Canadian. It employs approximately 3,500 people in Canada who work in the company’s more than 20 facilities, including manufacturing, sales, and distribution centers. Nestlé Waters Canada is Canada’s largest manufacturer and distributor of bottled water and operates 2 bottling plants across Canada. Other than bottled water, Nestlé product lines include coffee, juice, ice cream, baby food/formula, healthcare nutrition, pet care, confectionery and pharmaceuticals.

Everyday Wildlife Champions

Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) is a Fortune 500 multinational corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Four billion times a day, P&G brands touch the lives of people around the world. P&G markets approximately 300 brands of consumer products in roughly 180 countries. It is a global company that employs approximately 135,000 people in 80 countries with more than 2,000 in Canada. P&G is a leading consumer packaged goods company with roughly $80 billion in annual global sales of products ranging from beauty and grooming, health and well being to household care under brand names such as Gillette®, Crest® and Dawn®. P&G is credited with many business innovations including brand management and the soap opera.

African Biodiversity Conservation and Innovations Centre (ABCIC)

http://www.abcic.org/

The ABCIC is a non-profit regional organization enhancing the conservation and sustainable utilization of biodiversity for posterity, environmental preservation, and sustenance of livelihoods for the African rural communities. ABCIC primarily focuses on agrobiodiversity and adopts an integrated approach that carefully balances conservation imperatives with the sustainable use by facilitating and promoting production, product development, and enhanced marketing of biodiversity-related products through a value chain approach.

Green Development Initiative Certification

http://gdi.earthmind.net/certification/

The Green Development Initiative (GDI) is an international response to the 10th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP10), particularly with respect to the strategies for resource mobilisation and business engagement. It aims to establish an international green development certification scheme for land management. Such a scheme will enable land managers to be recognised for their efforts to conserve biodiversity and use biological resources sustainably and equitably. In so doing, the GDI intends to stimulate new market-based financing of conservation and development on the ground.

Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources

http://www.ansab.org/

ANSAB is a civil society organization committed to biodiversity conservation and economic development through community-based, enterprise-oriented solutions. ANSAB works across South Asia and places community empowerment and economic incentives at the heart of its approach, believing that as people benefit from natural resoruces they become more motivated to protect them - and vice-versa.

Market Analysis and Development

http://www.fao.org/forestry/enterprises/25492/en/

Market Analysis and Development is a participatory methodology designed by the FAO to assist local people in developing income-generating enterprises while conserving tree and forest resources.  It provides a set of adaptable tools for the specific context of each country as well as for many different purposes and products.

Enterprise Development for Natural Products Manual (ANSAB- Asia Network for Sustainable Bioresources, and EWW- EnterpriseWorks Worldwide)

http://www.rmportal.net/library/content/frame/natu...

This manual provides practical tools to explore and develop natural product enterprises. It promotes a strategy for natural product enterprise design that enhances a region's biodiversity and promotes social equity.  Checklists and charts are provided as guides to examine specific subjects and to gather information needed to complete business plans and manage the enterprise.

Also see "The Conservation Marketing Equation: a manual for conservation and development professionals" 

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