Awards winners 2009

• SEED Gold Winner
• Year of participation:2009
• Country:Niger
• Region:Africa
• Subject:Biofuels|Sustainable consumption and production (recycling)|Waste management

ALMODO, established in 2005, is a sustainable solid waste management system suitable for lower income urban areas where it offers training and waste management services to municipalities and civil societies. It collects, centralises and ecologically recov ... View project details ^Featured

• SEED Gold Winner
• Year of participation:2009
• Country:South Africa
• Region:Africa
• Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management|Information and communication

Indigenous peoples and local communities are the custodians of their natural resources and have a wealth of traditional knowledge about its management and uses. Yet communities are often marginalised in land use plans and suffer from the misappropriation ... View project details ^Featured

• SEED Gold Winner
• Year of participation:2009
• Country:Zimbabwe
• Region:Africa
• Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management|Food security

Since 2007, KAITE trains small-scale farmers to produce, process and certify organic essential oils, herbs and spices. It is the first local enterprise in Zimbabwe to work with small-scale women farmers to produce these products for export. The 30 employe ... View project details ^Featured

• SEED Gold Winner
• Year of participation:2009
• Country:Colombia
• Region:Latin America & Caribbean (GRULAC)
• Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management|Sustainable consumption and production (recycling)

Since 2000, Oro Verde® reverses environmental degradation, caused by uncontrolled mining in the Chocó Bioregion by developing certified responsible mining practices. The partnership, consisting of a national NGO and three grassroots organisations, has c ... View project details ^Featured

• SEED Gold Winner
• Year of participation:2009
• Country:Bangladesh
• Region:Asia (including Pacific)
• Subject:Education|Energy / Renewables

Since 2008, the partnership provides women with SuryaHurricanes to replace the currently widely used kerosene hurricane lanterns. The SuryaHurricane is a low-cost solar powered lantern made from recycled traditional kerosene lanterns, where the wick and b ... View project details ^Featured

• SEED Winner
• Year of participation:2009
• Country:Thailand
• Region:Asia (including Pacific)
• Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management|Climate change adaptation/mitigation

The Carbon Bank and Village Development Project (VDP) enable successful climate change adaptation, local socio-economic development, and biodiversity conservation in rural Thailand. Since 2005, the initiative has encouraged, supported and enhanced commu ... View project details

• SEED Winner
• Year of participation:2009
• Country:Brazil
• Region:Latin America & Caribbean (GRULAC)
• Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management|Forestry / Non-timber forest products

The project aims to safeguard traditional ornamental fisheries in the Amazon in a sustainable way by stimulating a niche market. Through a socially and environmentally responsible fishery cooperative and traders, the initiative introduces a fair trade sys ... View project details

• SEED Winner
• Year of participation:2009
• Country:Bangladesh
• Region:Asia (including Pacific)
• Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management|Climate change adaptation/mitigation|Environmental technologies

In 2008, the initiative introduced an innovative technology that reduces the energy consumption of conventional rice mill furnaces by roughly 60%. Firstly, the energy efficient technology not only reduces the amount of rice husk used as fuel for the boile ... View project details

• SEED Winner
• Year of participation:2009
• Country:Cook Islands
• Region:Asia (including Pacific)
• Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management|Food security|Environmental technologies

Since 2006, the tropical multi-species aqua-farm has contributed to food security by providing sustainable supplies of organic oysters, milkfish and tilapia. Now they are also cultivating and harvesting micro-algae as livestock feed for the fish. Fish ar ... View project details

• SEED Winner
• Year of participation:2009
• Country:Kenya
• Region:Africa
• Subject:Sustainable consumption and production (recycling)

The initiative, established in 2009, is unique as it recycles dirty plastic containers (polythenes) using a novel technique and converts them into plastic poles. No other plastic recycler is known to be able to recycle dirty polythenes (LDPE) that litter ... View project details