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Can palm oil be sustainable?

Can palm oil be sustainable?

5 September 2012

Johanna Sorrell asks if large-scale sustainable production of palm oil is a viable option for the palm oil industry.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged 2degrees, Brazil, Cognis, Colombia, Friends of the Earth, GreenPalm, Greenpeace, IOI, Johanna Sorrell, Kit Kat, Liberia, Malaysia, monoculture, Nestlé, Nigeria, non-edibles, Oil Buyers Scorecard, palm oil, palm oil mill effluent, palm oil production, Palm Oil Promise, paraquat, rainforest, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm, RSPO, Sinar Mas, sustainability, sustainable industry, sustainable production, Thailand, The Forest Trust, uganda, Unilever Global, WWF

Gender-sensitive industrial development

Gender-sensitive industrial development

10 January 2012

Investing in gender-sensitive development affects productivity, efficiency and sustained economic growth, as well as strengthens women’s rights

Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Africa, business management, cosmetics, economic potential of women, education systems, enhancing competitiveness, entrepreneurial activities, entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability, finance, gender issue, Gender Mainstreaming Steering Committee, gender-sensitive employment creation, inclusive globalization, industrial development for poverty reduction, Industrial Development Organization, institutionalize, internationalization, investment in care services, issue 8, local raw materials, Making It magazine, Mali, market-information, modernity, Morocco, off-grid energy sources, policy advice, producing shea products, product certification and marketing, productive resources, skills, strengthening business support services, sustainable energy, technical cooperation programmes, technology, uganda, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, women's empowerment

Solar Sister: empowering women with light and opportunity

Solar Sister: empowering women with light and opportunity

14 September 2011

Katherine Lucey introduces a social enterprise that provides women with training and support to create solar micro-businesses

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged aid, air quality, Avon-style business, clean energy, distribution of clean energy, economic opportunity, empowerment, energy, energy poverty, energy technology, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, family income, global climate change, hazardous, household, Industrial Development, inefficient, innovative market-based approach, insufficient, issue 7, Katherine Lucey, kerosene lanterns, LED lighting technology, light, Making It, micro-consignment business model, Mpigi, population, poverty reduction, rural women in Africa, social enterprise, solar micro-business, Solar Sister, solar technology, training and support, uganda, UN, UNIDO, women, women's social networks