Art4Trees. The Systems Thinker Newsletter. WANTED: High Potential Impact Entrepreneurs In Latin America | Agora Partnerships. Date: September 12, 2012 By: Jesse Grainger Comments: One Category: Agora Updates We are currently in search of 30 high-potential early-stage impact entrepreneurs from throughout Latin America to join our growing community of world-changing businesses (Agora’s Class of ’12 is pictured above). Entrepreneurs around the world are joining a growing movement to create positive, sustainable impact through private enterprise. We are in the middle of an ambitious recruitment effort for our 2013 Impact Accelerator. Over the past two years, we have worked with 18 company operating in some of the poorest regions of the Western Hemisphere. Now, we are expanding from our base in Central America and searching for 30 new companies spanning the whole of Latin America to help accelerate impact for the region.
If you are an entrepreneur interested in applying to our Accelerator or if you’re interesting in helping us spread the word, please contact Inga Schulte-Bahrenberg at ischulte@agorapartnerships.org. How might we identify and celebrate businesses that innovate for world benefit – and inspire other companies to do the same? - Inspiration - Going Organic with Morarka. Contribution Morarka Foundation based in India has been a pioneer in Organic Farming. Housing 2 retail brands DownToEarthOrganic for organic groceries and BackToBasics for Organic Clothing, it trains100,000 farmers across 250,000 acres of land in organic farming Morarko, pioneering Organic Farming.
I have always had the pleasure of consuming vegetables and fruits that were grown without any chemicals in my Uncle's farms whenever he visited us from the village. Farmer suicides due to poor yields is a common story in India. Several State schemes actually advise and incentivize the use of chemicals however its' effect on soil shows with time.
I came across DownToEarthOrganic in my attempt to teach my parents to shop for organic vegetables. Contribution submitted by:Soumithra Ramesh. Reference List | Alliance for Strategic Sustainable Development. Let's do it! World. Warriorswithouweapons.net. Who we are | Green Economy Coalition. Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Center for Sustainability Studies (GVces) of the Business Administration School of Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-EAESP) is an open environment for study, learning, insights, innovation and the production of knowledge, made up of personnel with a multidisciplinary and diverse background; these are highly creative people that are engaged, committed, curious and bold, and especially motivated by a genuine desire to change the world. GVces bases its activities in formulating and following-up public policies, in building tools for self-regulation and in the development of strategies and tools for business management towards sustainability, locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.
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