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Agrisoma Biosciences
Canada
We deliver sustainable energy solutions founded in agriculture.Through the application of advanced crop improvement and breeding technology Agrisoma has commercialized a non food sustainable crop called Carinata enhanced yield of uniform high quality oil for biodiesel and biojet fuel production.This proprietary crop product Resonance Carinata is a sustainable scalable solution to biofuel feedstock demand.With more than 2 million litres of advanced biofuels being made from carinata and more than 10 million kilograms of sustainable animal feed produced in the initial commercial production by over 140 innovative growers in Canada the United States and South America Agrisoma is scaling its operations to meet growing demand.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Big City Farms Holdings
United States of America
Big City Farms is a for profit triple bottom line (Certified B Corp) company that is creating a local network of small urban sustainable organic farms in. The company s hoop house network farms will produce a variety of lettuces and leafy greens year round and aggregate to local urban groceries restaurants and institutional clients within 24 hours of harvest at prices and quality competitive with those provided by industrial farms. The Company s grower network will empower local entrepreneurs with low cost high throughput small plot greenhouse technology and planet friendly farming methods. The Company s operations will turn deteriorating urban land into profitable green spaces that nourishes educates and employs urban populations.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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CleanStar Ventures
United States of America
CleanStar is a venture development company that harnesses business and technology innovation in frontier markets. Their key venture platforms are Urban Cooking BoP Retail & Mobile Tech Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Utility Services.
| Energy |
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Copiasuro
Copiasuro is an association of fair trade honey producers located in the highlands of Guatemala. One of the first participants in Root Capital s financial training program Copiasuro has enjoyed a growth in volume sales and community impact in recent years. Today the cooperative boasts a membership of 175 beekeepers who manage on average more than 75 beehives each.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Cosecha Partners
Nicaragua
Cosecha Partners S.A. is a sustainable agro enterprise and supplier of chia seed and other native Central American healthy and superfood products. Based in Managua Nicaragua they produce process and export premium agricultural products and food ingredients from Central America. In doing so they build sustainable and dynamic market relationships that connect leading food distributors manufacturers and retailers with exceptional small scale growers. By serving buyers and growers alike they pioneer new and exciting health and nostalgic food products on the market that showcase their growers unique story and our triple bottom line approach.
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El Buen Socio
Mexico
El Buen Socio is an ethical finance institution in Mexico that promotes sustainable development by strengthening people s capabilities and supporting entrepreneurs with sustainable businesses.rn rnEl Buen Socio issues loans to entrepreneurs unable to obtain a loan through other banking institutions.rnrnEl Buen Socio supports entrepreneurs who farm forest or fish in an eco friendly way with sustainable use of natural resources. All loan proposals must have a positive social or environmental impact and must be profitable.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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Kuli Kuli
United States of America
Kuli Kuli is the first company to introduce moringa a unique superfood to the U.S. food market. Kuli Kuli s first product is a gluten free nutrition bar full of simple wholesome ingredients and a nutritious burst of moringa. Kuli Kuli supports women owned farming cooperatives in West Africa to grow moringa and use it to improve the health of their communities.
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Sanergy
Kenya
Sanergy makes hygienic sanitation affordable and accessible in urban slums for everyone forever starting with Nairobi Kenya. 2.6 billion people or 40% of the world lack access to basic sanitation. The resulting disease causes nearly 2 million deaths 10% of the global disease burden and $84 billion in worker productivity loss each year. The high population density combined with the lack of infrastructure and resources makes the problem particularly acute in slums where populations will double to 2 billion by 2030. Kenya is at the epicenter of this crisis with 10 million people living in slums 80% of whom lack access to basic sanitation. Sanergy promotes the fundamental human right to sanitation in the slums of Kenya by increasing access to and usage of hygienic sanitation facilities. Sanergy creates an efficient equitable and sustainable sanitation cycle by building a dense network of small scale sanitation centers across the slums a low cost containerized waste collection infrastructure and converting this waste at their central processing facility into useful byproducts such as organic fertilizer and renewable energy.
| Real estate, design & building |
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Solidaridad Network
Netherlands
Solidaridad is an international network organisation with more than 20 years of experience in creating fair and sustainable supply chains from producer to consumer.
| Professional & technical services |
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Ten Acre Organics
United States of America
Ten Acre Organics LLC is an urban farming company based in Austin TX and was founded in January of 2012. Their ten acre farm model is designed to mimic a natural ecosystem and employs aquaponic greenhouses (raising fish veggies herbs and salad greens) as well as organic field crops fruit trees mushroom production chickens bees and on site composting. This integrated diversified approach allows us to grow a wide variety of foods in a way that optimizes resource use efficiency while creating zero waste.
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VillFarm Agrisolutions
India
VillFarm is building a new product line of high performance agri inputs addressing the high growth market of sustainable agriculture products in India. VillFarm is based in Bangalore India.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |