27 datasets found

This document contributes to Peru's National BioTrade Strategy with a series of suggestions in the field of the expansion of markets and the expansion of the Biocommerce model....

This synthesis report summarizes lessons from the UNEP Green Economy and Trade Opportunities Project, which identified, assessed and harnessed trade opportunities arising from...

The SPP impact study is a joint project of UNEP and of the Swiss-led Marrakech Task Force on SPP. The study aims at demonstrating the benefits of sustainable public procurement...

The overall objective of this country study for South Africa, prepared under the Green Economy and Trade Opportunities Project (GE-TOP), is to assess sustainable trade...

Food security globally is highly dependent on crop production, which has been subjected to increasing pressures emanating from both an increasing demand for food and a...

Concepts like "green public procurement," "sustainable development," "sustainable public procurement," are increasingly common in development strategies established at the...

This report presents an analysis of the implementation and results of the SWITCH Africa Green programme in the agriculture sector focusing on the participating countries Burkina...

This report is about the contribution that organic agriculture can make in the EECCA region in the context of the green economy. It is mainly based on three national case...

Bizon 1 is a small company born out of an agricultural research institute struggling for finance after the fall of the Soviet Union. While this posed a challenge for research,...

Deddens Agro is a Ukrainian-German company that has quickly responded to the increasing consumer demand for organic produce. The company started in 2008 with conventional...

EthnoProduct is a Ukranian-Swiss organically certified agricultural company, with field to consumer-ready food products, including organic cereals, dairy and meat products. The...

Ion Cuhal once dreamed of setting up a successful and very profitable company. As a young entrepreneur, “I particularly wanted my company to act in harmony with the environment,...

In 2008, Oleksandr Yushchenko visited the Biofach trade fair and felt inspired after meeting dozens of organic producers in person. Upon his return home in Ukraine, he decided...

Tamara Fruit is one of Armenia’s leading food production companies, specialising in fruit, berry and vegetable preserves, purees, deep frozen and bee products. The origins of...

In the 1970s, the thought of not using pesticides and chemicals in agriculture was unheard of. The focus at the time was centered around building profits and yields with the use...

Established in 2012, the PROGRAIN company once only bought and traded grains and oleaginous plants, seeds and seeding material as well as plant protection products and...

This assessment analyses the trade opportunities for organic products exported from Ukraine, Moldova and Armenia to the EU market. The document is written for companies involved...

Recent discussion of biodiversity loss has focused on its expected ecological consequences, as well as on the aesthetic, ethical, sociological, and economic effects this loss...

El presente informe es consecuencia de la Consulta, y tiene por objeto incorporar las recomendaciones en un programa coordinado de acci6n de nivel internacional. Dados los...

UN Environment Africa Office's Newsletter for the period November-December 2018.