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SEED Videos travel the world to reveal the inspiring stories of eco-inclusive entrepreneurship. Our videos hear from enterprises themselves as they deliver their products and services; tour the collaborative formats of SEED events; speak with diverse stakeholders who actively collaborate to promote eco-inclusive entrepreneurship for sustainable development and more.

Green Entrepreneurship Awards 2023

Published: 15 August 2023
The awards scheme, a flagship event of adelphi’s Green Entrepreneurship programme, aims to recognise and celebrate the most innovative and promising eco-inclusive and circular enterprises in developing and emerging economies. Meet the winners in this video! Read more
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Instellar Indonesia - SEED Case Study

Published: 15 August 2023
Instellar is a purpose-driven company which helps to build impactful, sustainable, and scalable businesses in Indonesia. Instellar hosts the SEED Hub in Indonesia Read more

Find Folk from Thailand

Published: 17 May 2023
Find Folk co-creates responsible #tourism experiences with #local communities. The #enterprise also educates tourism stakeholders on responsible and #sustainable tourism with a view to having them use the limited resources in their #communities productively. Read more

Yoddoi Organic Coffee from Thailand

Published: 17 May 2023
Yoddoi sells organic single origin Arabica coffee grown in Doichang area of ChiangRai province, north of #Thailand. It promotes organic farming amongst Akha hill tribe, a small group of #coffee growers, and creates a farmers' satisfaction price to generate #sustainable income for #farmers. Read more

GooGreens from Thailand

Published: 17 May 2023
GooGreens offers points through easy-to-access automatic recycled #waste collection dispensers in #Thailand where members can convert points to rewards. The point-to-point waste segregation platform is linked to #recycling vending machines using IoT and #AI sensors to classify recycled materials and transmit #data in real time. Read more

SunnyCotton from Thailand

Published: 17 May 2023
SunnyCotton’s key #business is merchandising #sustainable cloth #pads. The materials and production processes are locally sourced. Distribution channels are the enterprise's own #e-commerce platforms and partner stores. Read more

JVL-YKMA Recycling Plant from Ghana

Published: 07 September 2022
The JVL-YKMA Recycling Plant recycles source-separated waste to produce various products such as compost and briquettes. JVL-YKMA sources food waste from markets, faecal sludge from public and private toilets, wood waste, and rice husk from mills. Read more

Eco-Clean from Ghana

Published: 07 September 2022
Eco-Clean Ghana Foundation is creating livelihood and empowerment opportunities for women, youth, and schools in rural communities in Ghana, by using permaculture and ecovillage sustainable modules to turn waste into resources. Watch the video to learn more about Eco-Clean Ghana Foundation's path to creating resources out of waste. Read more

Komodo Water from Indonesia

Published: 21 March 2022
Komodo Water provides clean and affordable drinking water on the fresh water-scarce islands of the Komodo National Park in Indonesia. The enterprise is deeply embedded into the communities it works in, hires locally and heads the plastic-free island movement. Read more
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Rahsa Nusantara from Indonesia

Published: 09 March 2022
Rahsa Nusantara started with wisdom from women on Java Island through ready-to-drink products, promoting female empowerment, local wisdom and a healthy lifestyle. Their products are made naturally from local ingredients and they recycle their organic waste. Read more
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AgriCentric Ventures from Ghana

Published: 21 February 2022
AgriCentric partners with both smallholder farmers and commercial scale farmers to buy their farm waste. The waste is processed into high value organic products: bio-char, bio-fertiliser, dietary supplement for livestock & fish, and bio-pesticides which are then sold back to farmers at cheap prices to enable them to engage in sustainable food production. Read more
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Mycotech from Indonesia

Published: 08 February 2022
Mycotech’s team of young Indonesian entrepreneurs collaborates with designers to develop Mylea into end products using co-creative profit-sharing schemes. Beyond producing this innovative material; they aim to create more eco-consciousness in the fashion industry. Read more
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Green Honey Company Limited from Ghana

Published: 10 November 2021
Green Honey Company Limited trains farms to integrate beekeeping into crop farming as a method to reduce chemical use, increase crop yield and food quality. The bee products are purchased from the farmers to provide a ready market. The bee products are then repackaged and sold to retail outlets such as supermarkets. Read more
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Stonesoup from India

Published: 10 November 2021
Stonesoup offers products to promote and create awareness on zero waste lifestyles, such as cloth pads and stemless menstrual cups that promise a rash-free, trash-free and cash-free period, alternatives to plastic like cloth bags and bees wax wraps, and wet waste composters that provide de-centralised methods of managing wet waste to homes and communities. Read more
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SEED Awards 2021 Winners

Published: 13 July 2021
The SEED Awards for Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development is an annual awards scheme designed to identify the most innovative and promising locally led start-up eco-inclusive enterprises in developing and emerging economies. Read more
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SEED Awards 2021 Runners-Up

Published: 13 July 2021
The SEED Awards for Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development is an annual awards scheme designed to identify the most innovative and promising locally led start-up eco-inclusive enterprises in developing and emerging economies. Read more
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Green Bio Energy from Uganda

Published: 09 July 2021
Green Bio Energy is a young, award-winning social enterprise, which offers low-income Ugandan families access to cost-saving, eco-friendly and safe energy solutions. Read more
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ONergy Solar, a SEED Story from India

Published: 31 May 2021
ONergy Solar is an end-to- end solar solution expert offering design, engineering, manufacturing, installation, O&M and solar consultancy services for solar rooftop powerplant, solar irrigation pumping, solar lighting and microgrids for rural communities in India. Their solutions and services are focused towards reducing energy costs for their customers. Read more
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AET Africa, a SEED Story from South Africa

Published: 03 May 2021
AET AFRICA innovates, manufactures and supplies energy efficiency products for water heating and cooling systems and also conducts research on innovating those technologies. Read more
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Daily Dump, a SEED Story from India

Published: 19 April 2021
Daily Dump works to redefine people’s perception of and relationship with the earth, each other and our urban spaces. It is the first company in India to design a home composter, adapted for tight urban spaces and with a unique terracotta design. Read more
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Last Forest, a SEED Story from India

Published: 29 March 2021
New SEED case study from 2014 Low Carbon Award Winner Last Forest, an enterprise in India that increases the demand for organic agricultural production and offers indigenous communities a sustainable source of income. Read more
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Siyabuddy, a SEED Story from South Africa

Published: 27 January 2021
Siyabuddy empowers community members to collect waste from different sources like shopping centres, hospitals, illegal dumping sites, etc. The company trains the collectors on waste separation, pays them per kg collected and ultimately sells the collected waste to recyclers all across South Africa. Read more
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UN High-Level Political Forum 2020 - Eco-Inclusive Enterprises and COVID-19

Published: 05 August 2020
As momentum builds for post-pandemic recovery, eco-inclusive enterprises around the world offer inspiring examples of inspiring solutions. Learn about their response and vision for a green recovery with Frontier Markets (India), Farmerline (Ghana), Amazóniko (Colombia), Gorilla Conservation Coffee (Uganda), Kibébé (Malawi) and EcoPlastile (Uganda). Read more

SEED & Climate Smart Enterprises

Published: 11 August 2019
At SEED, the enterprises that we support pioneer business models based on environmental sustainability and the creation of responsible products, services and value chains. Read more
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