What I've learned from living in the Amazon

What I've learned from living in the Amazon

Living in the largest biome in Brazil, Marcelo Cwerner, NESsT Brazil Portfolio Manager, illuminates the beauty of the Amazon rainforest and underscores the challenges that are involved in the preservation of the rainforest. The Amazon is fundamental to life on the planet. Its environmental and climatic services are unique and, without it, life as we know it will not be possible.

Greenbox Transformă viețile fermierilor indigeni din Peru

Greenbox Transforms the Lives of Indigenous Farmers in Peru

In Peru, due to a lack of information and limited access to technology, many indigenous farmers situated deep in the highland regions are exploited by intermediaries who take ownership of and export their products at rates that severely undercut the farmer. Greenbox is a social enterprise that transforms regions in the Amazon Andes of Peru from harvesting coca plants for use in drug trafficking, to harvesting organic fruit for use in value-add products.

Construirea unor SGB mai reziliente prin intermediul colaborării transformaționale

Building More Resilient SGBs Through Transformational Collaboration

Panelists at the ANDE Conference shared key needs of the SGB sector in the Post Covid-19 reality, which includes resilience funding that is flexible and designed to meet immediate needs and adaptation to e-commerce and digitalization. To address these needs, we need to move beyond transactional partnerships to transformational partnerships that bring unlikely collaborators on board.

NESsT Parteneri cu IKEA Social Entrepreneurship pentru a sprijini 12 întreprinderi sociale din America Latină

NESsT Partners with IKEA Social Entrepreneurship to Support 12 Social Enterprises in Latin America

Acest program de accelerare de trei ani, co-creat și personalizat, va oferi întreprinderilor sociale îndrumare practică din partea colaboratorilor IKEA și a consilierilor NESsT pentru a sprijini 12 antreprenori sociali din Chile, Columbia, Peru și Brazilia cu planurile lor de extindere a afacerilor.