Women and Green Business

Upskilling women to adopt green business practices is a powerful catalyst for change. We work to empower women micro-entrepreneurs, artisans and producers, particularly within marginalized and urban communities. Focusing on sustainable natural fibre and regenerative agricultural value chains, such as banana, bamboo and non-timber forest produce, we upskill women to adopt green business practices and connects them with national and global markets for natural and biodegradable products. As a result, women producers are rising out of poverty by building sustainable, rural livelihoods that also support conservation and biodiversity. Our interventions have impacted more than 500,000 women producers, creating markets for women and empowering women from marginalized communities in rural areas. We support women to take ownership of their collective enterprises, which are environmental, social, and corporate governance compliant. We support small and medium-sized enterprises capable of supplying sustainable products at scale to the stringent standards of consumers, as well as to fast-growing local economies, which need access to more localized supply chains with reduced carbon footprints.