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This case study focuses on Reuters Market Light (RML), which offers a highly customised and localised agricultural information service. Using a subscription economy model, RML provides information services such as weather forecasts, crop advisory, proximate market data and crop prices, and relevant policy and national and international news via mobile phone-based Short Message Service (SMS) primarily aimed at farmers. The report describes the context, the business model, constraints and solutions, important actors and results of the model.

Este reporte ofrece un amplio análisis del panorama de Colombia con respecto a los negocios inclusivos; presenta una mirada a las dinámicas empresariales del país y a las restricciones de mercado a las que se enfrentan los negocios inclusivos en Colombia. Presenta 13 casos de distintos sectores, analizando su matriz de intercambio de valor y sus estrategias de crecimiento.

This case study focuses on Community-based tourism (CBT) in Kyrgyzstan . Community-based ecotourism services offer tourists unique experiences, generate incomes for rural families and preserve the natural and cultural heritage of the country. In Kyrgyztan, there are two main actors involved in the CBT business model: Tour operators and the Kyrgyz Community- Based Tourism Association (KCBTA), a non-profit membership organisation. The report describes the context and the business model, the actors, challenges and solution strategies, and the results.

This document discusses the business involvement in creating opportunities for the poor in the area of nutrition and the potential for partnerships between private sector and government agencies to provide private solutions to address and enhance nutritional programmes in Latin America.

Asia's relentless demand for energy raises great concerns over energy security and combating climate change. As part of the solution, ADB is funding projects that help countries develop clean energy through renewable power and energy efficiency. This publication features 10 clean energy stories that reduce greenhouse gases as well as improve lives for the poor.

This case study showcases multi-national alcoholic beverages company Diageo, which joined the Business Call to Action with its commitment to develop its sorghum agricultural value chain in Cameroon by providing technical assistance and training to farmers. It outlines the company's goals which includes promoting sustainable livelihoods for up to 10,000 smallholder sorghum farming families; and it discusses how the business model works; the business and development impacts to date; and the key success factors.

This case study showcases multi-national media company, Thomson Reuters, which joined the Business Call to Actionits initiative 'Reuters Market Light', a news and advisory service for farmers, that leverages the company’s core business to reduce poverty and hunger among India’s rural farmers and promote sustainable economic growth in the agricultural sector. It outlines how the initiative works; the business and development impacts to date; and the key success factors.

This case study focuses on the business model of Edipack, a leading paper recycling and packaging material enterprise, located in Durres, Albania. The company includes various vulnerable groups such as orphans, Roma and disabled people as small suppliers in its value chain. NGOs act as intermediaries between the firm and small suppliers, and on?the?job training to low?skilled employees is offered in the production process.

This case study focuses on Mondi South Africa, a paper producer with a global presence. It outsourced its supply chain of recovered fibre. Through an ‘owner-driver’ scheme, it has encouraged some of its former employees to create their own paper pick-up and delivery businesses, creating opportunities for empowerment, encouragement and economic development further down the value chain, with benefits for people in the form of employment, increased income, skills transfers and enterprise development. The report describes the business model of Mondi Recycling, the actors and the results created by the business.

This case study focuses on a programme implementing the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which retrofits low-income houses in the urban township of Kuyasa, Khayelitsha, South Africa with solar water geysers, insulated ceilings and compact fluorescent light bulbs. The programme is funded through a funding model of the South African Export Development Fund. The report describes the market and location context, the business model, and looks at the constraints, relationships and results.