Current Projects
PrintCurrent projects have a strong potential to deliver financial returns and improved livelihood prospects for investors and community members respectively, in a way that is sensitive to the ecological and cultural needs of local communities.
Certification of Rural Non-Timber Forest Products
Yunnan Province, China
This project involves the certification of organic pine nuts, walnuts, mushrooms and medicinal plants for export markets. The opportunity involves setting up a company to manage the production, distribution and marketing of organic products, a prospect which has commercial attractiveness, environmental, social, and communal benefits.
Farming Enterprise Development
Hebei Province, China
This project involves an agricultural enterprise that produces three categories of products derived from an innovative eco-business-model: biogas-derived electricity; value-added pork products; bagged bio-fertilizer and liquid bio-sludge. These products represent excellent market prospects and their use can bring significant social and environmental benefits to consumers and rural producers.
Rural Agricultural Enterprise
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
This opportunity is focused on an agribusiness that trades organic rice. The project entails the expansion of the company’s presence in domestic and export markets to create a business model that is replicable throughout the country and one which benefits large numbers of farmers and consumers through procuring and supplying premium organic rice.
Rural Electrification Enterprise
Vientiane, Laos
This project is focused on the expansion of an existing social enterprise which provides renewable energy and value-added services to remote rural communities through a commercially sustainable operation. The opportunity entails a solar-powered water pumping and purification initiative which represents an exciting opportunity to harness renewable energy in the delivery of clean water – an essential basic necessity which 60% of the Lao population still lacks access to.