2009 SEED Awards Winners

covering 19 countries involving over 80 different organisations

The twenty 2009 SEED Award Winners, chosen by our international jury of independent experts from over 1100 proposals, are:

In alphabetical order....

Bangladesh: Converting kerosene lamps to solar power and identifying economic opportunities in rural communities. “Solar conversion of traditional kerosene hurricane lamps”

Bangladesh: Enhancing the efficiency of conventional rice mill boilers to reduce the fuel consumption in rice mills “Generating local economy through regenerating local resources”

Botswana, Namibia, South Africa: Developing bio-cultural protocols with indigenous peoples, aiming to conserve, effectively value and sustainably use biodiversity resources. Biocultural protocols - community approaches to Access and Benefits Sharing” “Biocultural protocols - community approaches to Access and Benefits Sharing”

Brazil: “Eco-Amazon Piabas of Rio Negro” Building a niche market of speciality ornamental fish, using a fair trade cooperative system and socio- environmentally responsible fishing techniques.

Brazil: “One Million Cistern Program (P1MC)” Developing and building one million water cisterns to collect and store rainwater in semi-arid regions.

Brazil: “The sustainable use of Amazonian seeds” Encouraging the organization of the local communities into co-operatives and offering training and alternative sources of income through the production of oils made from Amazonian seeds.

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso: “Nafore & Afrisolar energy kiosks” Expanding sustainable energy supplies to poor communities through “Nafore”, a PV- based telephone charger, 100% powered by solar energy.

Colombia Colombia: “Camarones Sostenibles del Golfo de Morrosquillo” Establishing a cooperative enterprise that includes families of traditional fishermen in the Morrosquillo Gulf, farming shrimp in a way which produces zero emissions.

Colombia Colombia: “Oro Verde®: facilitating market access for artisan miners” Creating a mining certification process and capacity building programme for artisan miners to reverse environmental degradation and social exclusion produced by illegal mechanized mining.

Cook Islands Cook Islands: “Inland oyster aquafarming “Inland oyster aquafarming” Farming oysters in an environmentally friendly manner to combat over-fishing of lagoons, improve food security and generate community income.

Kenya Kenya: “MakaaZingira” Producing Forest Stewardship Council certified charcoal.

Kenya Kenya: “Integrated plastics recovery and recycling flagship project” Improving livelihoods of marginalised youth and women through the recovery and recycling of plastic waste.

Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia: “Sunny Money - solar microfranchising” Training and supporting a network of solar entrepreneurs to build and sell solar kits to power lights, radios and mobile phones.

Mozambique Mozambique: “The clean energy initiative” Establishing a vocational training programme and workshops for the fabrication, installation and maintenance of micro wind turbines.

Niger Niger: “Almodo” Developing a sustainable self-financing solid waste management system in collaboration with a women’s group in poor urban areas.

Panama Panama: “Planting empowerment” Creating investment opportunities in sustainable forestry and conservation in fragile environmental areas.

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka: “Solar energy, education and fishing” Introducing solar LED lighting systems for night fishing.

Tanzania Tanzania: “KOLCAFE - Smallholder coffee revenue enhancement” Improving agronomic practices and product processing infrastructure for coffee production.

Thailand Thailand: “Carbon bank and village development” Supporting indigenous forestry through carbon credit trading.

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe: “Bridge to the world” Producing organic essential oils from the indigenous Tarchonanthus Campohratus bush.