Awards winners 2005
Five outstanding winners selected from a pool of over 260 entries from 66 countries. Each winner received a package worth US$15,000 of tailor-made support services, international exposure, and networking activities to assist its development. Click on the icons in the map above to view the Winners (red star) and the Finalists (green star).
A Global Marketing Partnerships for SRI Indigenous Rice Featured
- SEED Winner
- Year of participation:2005
- Country:Cambodia
- Region:Asia (including Pacific)
- Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management|Food security
Commercial rice cultivation in the developing world is becoming increasingly questionable as a result of low market prices, the financial and environmental costs of using chemicals and fertilizers and the decrease of rice diversity. The SRI Global Marketi ... View project details Featured
Agua Para Todos / Water for All Featured
- SEED Winner
- Year of participation:2005
- Country:Bolivia
- Region:Latin America & Caribbean (GRULAC)
- Subject:Water and sanitation
Access to clean water is an emotive issue in developing countries that sometimes leads to civil unrest and major social problems. The SEED-winning project ‘Water for All’ was inspired following the well-documented ‘water wars’ in Cochabamba. The municipal ... View project details Featured
Cows to Kilowatts Featured
- SEED Winner
- Year of participation:2005
- Country:Nigeria
- Region:Africa
- Subject:Climate change adaptation/mitigation|Energy / Renewables|Waste management
Greenhouse gas emission and pollution are two serious environmental side-effects of abattoirs across the developing world. Abattoir effluent critically impacts human health, agriculture, potable water and the ecology of aquatic species and has become a s ... View project details Featured
Harvesting Seabuckthorn at the top of the world Featured
- SEED Winner
- Year of participation:2005
- Country:Nepal
- Region:Asia (including Pacific)
- Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management
The international HimalAsia Foundation together with university research institutions, local community-based Tibetan cooperatives and a family of traditional medical practitioners have developed a sustainable programme for cultivating and marketing seabuc ... View project details Featured
Madagascar's first community-run marine protected area Featured
- SEED Winner
- Year of participation:2005
- Country:Madagascar
- Region:Africa
- Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management|Education|Sustainable Tourism
A partnership between the local community, international NGOs and research institutions aims to demonstrate the economic, conservation and fisheries benefits that can arise from establishing Madagascar’s first community-run Marine Protected Area (MPA). ... View project details Featured
Allanblackia Seed
- SEED Finalist
- Year of participation:2005
- Country:Nigeria
- Region:Africa
- Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management|Forestry / Non-timber forest products
The partnership seeks to improve livelihoods and fight the loss of tropical forests by establishing a new plant oil industry using a novel non-timber forest product – the Allanblackia seed. This initiative will create jobs and develop local communities by ... View project details
Environmental Certification Programme for Lead Battery ...
- SEED Finalist
- Year of participation:2005
- Country:India
- Region:Asia (including Pacific)
- Subject:Energy / Renewables|Sustainable consumption and production (recycling)
A partnership has been set up in India by Occupational Knowledge (OK) International with Development Alternatives, the National Referral Centre for Lead Poisoning in India, and a lead battery manufacturer, Amara Raja, to reduce the emission of lead both i ... View project details
Integrated Mangrove Restoration and Sustainable Shrimp ...
- SEED Finalist
- Year of participation:2005
- Country:Thailand
- Region:Asia (including Pacific)
- Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management
Local shrimp farming associations, local communities, an international NGO, and public authorities are joining forces to implement community-based sustainable shrimp aquaculture to benefit local communities while protecting and restoring mangrove swamps. ... View project details
Joint Initiative for a Cleaner Mohammedia
- SEED Finalist
- Year of participation:2005
- Country:Morocco
- Region:Africa
- Subject:Education|Environmental technologies
Business and government are working together to build a centre for the transfer of environmental technology known as the “C3TEM to increase the competitiveness of local industry, reduce pollution levels in the city of Mohammedia, home to the country’s lar ... View project details
Rising in the East
- SEED Finalist
- Year of participation:2005
- Country:Jamaica
- Region:Latin America & Caribbean (GRULAC)
- Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management|Education
In the last thirty years, rural communities across Jamaica have been in steady decline. High unemployment, increasing rural to urban migration, environmental degradation and harmful agricultural practices feature among the most serious challenges confront ... View project details
