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L. M. Hashan Buddhika beams with pride while giving a tour of his boutique hotel in Bandarawela in the Uva province of Sri Lanka. Tourism had been a mainstay on the island country until the pandemic hit hard in 2020. For Hashan, an innovative programme came at the right time to equip him with the skillsets needed to transform his ancestral property into a boutique hotel that practices sustainability and supports the local economy.
Women make vital contributions to agricultural supply chains across the globe. On International Women’s Day, we join the international community in calling for the rights, equality and empowerment of all women and girls. Each day we see these values expressed in the voices of women we work with in global supply chains.
The Manití Project in the Peruvian Amazon takes a holistic approach in its effort to biodiversity conservation in a unique ecological area. The initiative promotes sustainable entrepreneurship, while preserving roughly 15,000 hectares of primary forest. Its goal is a diversified local economy that contributes to conservation of biodiversity showing that environmental protection and human progress can go hand-in-hand.
In Ghana, smallholder farmers like David Amoamah have struggled to access loans for farm improvements. Now, an innovative pilot project connecting farmers with financing, reliable service providers, and a guaranteed market for their crops has brought a real improvement to the livelihoods of 47 oil palm farmers.