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Fictional Social Enterprise Business Plan: Rice Bowl

This business plan outlines a fictional social enterprise targeting small-scale rice farmers in rural India and connecting them with upscale consumer markets in urban India and abroad. ...

(template/sample, document (pdf), 2012)

Fictional Social Enterprise Financials: Rice Bowl

This excel sheet outlines the startup financials for a fictional social enterprise targeting small-scale rice farmers in rural India and connecting them with upscale consumer markets in urban India and abroad. ...

(template/sample, spreadsheet, 2012)

Fictional Social Enterprise Pitch Deck: Rice Bowl

This slide deck outlines a pitch for a fictional social enterprise targeting small-scale rice farmers in rural India and connects them with upscale consumer markets in urban India and abroad. ...

(template/sample, presentation, 2012)

Solimar International's Sustainable Tourism Toolkit Sampler

Solimar International's "Sustainable Tourism Toolkit" helps local entrepreneurs – particularly in developing countries - understand and complete the steps of growing small and medium-sized tourism enterprises that not only generate jobs and ...

(template/sample, document (pdf), 2012)

Using Low-cost Video for Agricultural Development Webinar: Recording and Presentation

This webinar provided participants with an overview of some of the ways that low-cost video is currently being used with farmers to enhance the impact of agricultural development projects. It included experiences from two organizations already effectively ...

(workshop/training, presentation, 2012)

APOPO Case Study: A Case Study in Social Enterprise Development using the Four Lenses Approach

Using the Four Lenses Strategic Framework , this case study highlights APOPO’s many notable strengths, and illustrates potential implications of APOPO’s shift towards a social enterprise model, the challenges that lie ahead, and the lessons this case ...

(case/model, document (pdf), 2009)

Drishtree: Sustainable Communities

This is a caselet about Drishtee, a social enterprise that works with poor rural communities in India. Drishtee, usually works through entrepreneurs, and has been creating for communities and its entrepreneurs sustainable business models that create ...

(caselet/profile, document (pdf), 2011)

Olam Nigeria Limited: Insight into Innovative Business for Profit Maximization, Employment Generation and Development of the Farm Sector

Olam Nigeria Limited, as the country arm of Olam International Limited, is a supplier of raw and processed agricultural commodities. The company’s business portfolio cuts across the total product supply chain from procurement of farm products to ...

(case/model, text, 2011)

Pot-in-pot Enterprise: Fridge for the Poor

Mobah Rural Horizons, producer of the pot-in-pot products which is widely termed as the ‘fridge for the poor’ is based in Kano, Nigeria. The region lies in the desert scrubland and is inhabited mainly by poor subsistence farmers living under the influence ...

(case/model, text, 2011)

Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange (KACE): Linking Small-Scale Farmers to National and Regional Markets

Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange (KACE) is a Kenyan micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) that provides a forum through which small-scale farmers can access mainstream markets for agricultural commodities. Kenya has three main commodity exchanges: ...

(case/model, text, 2011)

Discovering High Value Food Commodities for BOP Farmers Living in Tropical and Arid Lands

Booker T. Whatley (1987) showed small farmers in the United States how they could make a great deal of money and lower risk by growing “High Value Food Commodities” on “Pick-Your-Own” farms. In this paper I provide some ideas on how high value food ...

(essay/opinion, text, 2011)

Lessons from the Last Mile: Beyond Profit E-Magazine Issue 15

While the fact that the rural populations need to be reached, the question is how. Many companies have tried—and many have failed—at reaching the billions of rural villages throughout the world. In this issue we examine ways business is overcoming the last ...

(research/study, text, 2011)

The Other Tech Revolution: Beyond Profit E-Magazine Issue 16

For most of modern history, technology has been the key differentiator between nations that prospered and the ones that didn't. Nations that innovated and became early adapters of scientific advances saw their economies grow, ensuring better services ...

(research/study, text, 2011)

Integrating Low-Cost Video into Agricultural Development Projects: A Toolkit for Practitioners

This webpage includes PDF downloads of a complete toolkit and supplemental sections related to incorporating video strategies in agricultural development projects, as well as links to sample videos made by several of the organizations mentioned in the ...

(toolkit/manual, webpage, 2011)

Making Tractor Markets Work for the Poor in Nigeria: A PrOpCom Case Study

Aware of the unmet, increasing demand for farm mechanisation, PrOpCom (Promoting Pro-Poor Opportunities in Commodity and Service Markets) sought to redress the scarcity of tractors available for land preparation in Nigeria, and in so doing engage with the ...

(case/model, document (pdf), 2011)

Making Fertiliser Markets Work for the Poor in Nigeria: A PrOpCom Case Study

From 2008–2011 PrOpCom facilitated interventions aimed at improving the commercial marketing and distribution of fertiliser to the poor in Nigeria. When PrOpCom first contemplated whether or not to intervene in the fertiliser market, industry experts ...

(case/model, document (pdf), 2011)

Living off the Land: Beyond Profit E-Magazine Issue 7

This issue of Beyond Profit Magazine tackles the topics of agriculture, job creation, and food production related social enterprises. ...

(essay/opinion, text, 2010)

AAC's Success Story

In response to the absence of an investment facility which focuses on the development of private initiative in the agriculture sector in East Africa, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and Volksvermogen NV have established African ...

(case/model, video, 2010)

Lending a Hand: A Bank Focuses on Farmers

The agricultural sector in Tajikistan – the cotton sector in particular – is the largest employer and a critical part of the country’s economy. However, its development has been hindered by outdated agribusiness management skills, poor sector organization, ...

(case/model, text, 2010)

Vitmark: High-Quality And Affordable Fruit Products From Local Producers

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. Vitmark includes the poor at ...

(case/model, text, 2010)