Awards winners 2010

• SEED Winner
• Year of participation:2010
• Country:South Africa
• Region:Africa
• Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management|Sustainable Tourism|Sustainable consumption and production (recycling)

Amatola Wild Trout is the first community-owned and -managed recreational fishery in South Africa. It introduces economic and social development into the Amatolas through the development of an eco tourism attraction. The initiative introduces a hig ... View project details

• SEED Winner
• Year of participation:2010
• Country:Kenya
• Region:Africa
• Subject:Agriculture (incl. aquaculture)|Biodiversity / Natural resource management|Micro-enterprise development

More than 14 million people in the Horn of Africa are in need of international food aid. At the same time, Africa has the agricultural potential not only to feed the continent, but also the world. During the 2010 World Food Conference, Kofi Annan said " ... View project details

• SEED Winner
• Year of participation:2010
• Country:Ghana
• Region:Africa
• Subject:Agriculture (incl. aquaculture)|Energy / Renewables|Micro-enterprise development

The Tema Cooperative Sunflowers Association (TCSA) is a multi-integrated model for rehabilitation of degraded community lands through the cultivation and processing of sunflower into oil and biodiesel. The biodiesel is used to power tractors, machines and ... View project details

• SEED Winner
• Year of participation:2010
• Country:Colombia
• Region:Latin America & Caribbean (GRULAC)
• Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management|Forestry / Non-timber forest products

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• SEED Winner
• Year of participation:2010
• Country:South Africa
• Region:Africa
• Subject:Agriculture (incl. aquaculture)|Education|Sustainable consumption and production (recycling)

Reel Gardening is a simple, cost effective and convenient means of growing vegetables, herbs, and flowers from seed. Reel Gardening enables and empowers communities to implement their own sustainable food projects throughout South Africa through a use ... View project details

• SEED Winner
• Year of participation:2010
• Country:Kenya
• Region:Africa
• Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management|Forestry / Non-timber forest products

The initiative creates alternative incomes for pastoral communities by manufacturing Prosopis products and helping to generate markets fro them. At the same time, the initiative contributes to controlling the spread of this invasive species, thus helping ... View project details

• SEED Winner
• Year of participation:2010
• Country:Kenya
• Region:Africa
• Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management

This community-based initiative seeks to conserve the Kakamega forest through the promotion of alternative income generating activities and awareness among the local, poor communities. It is a partnership between several institutions and uses tradition ... View project details

• SEED Winner
• Year of participation:2010
• Country:Ghana
• Region:Africa
• Subject:Agriculture (incl. aquaculture)|Climate change adaptation/mitigation|Waste management

DeCo! offers a composting service to smallholder farmers in Northern Ghana. DeCo! follows a low-tech approach and aims for scalability. The plants are run by highly educated local managers and DeCo! offers part-time work for local people during the off-fa ... View project details

• SEED Winner
• Year of participation:2010
• Country:Kenya
• Region:Africa
• Subject:Climate change adaptation/mitigation|Environmental technologies|Sustainable consumption and production (recycling)|Waste management

Nairobi generates over 2,400 tonnes of waste everyday, 20% of which is plastic. Lack of an organised system of waste management has resulted in crude dumping of the waste leading to heaps of garbage littering streets and open fields. Cleanup is left mostl ... View project details

• SEED Winner
• Year of participation:2010
• Country:Rwanda
• Region:Africa
• Subject:Climate change adaptation/mitigation|Energy / Renewables|Forestry / Non-timber forest products

The Modern Carbonization Programme initiated by Entreprise Multiservices (EMS) is an initiative to improve the wood-energy channel in Rwanda. The partnership aims at introducing modern carbonization and waste recovery technologies as well as more effici ... View project details