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GroFin is a specialist business development and finance company
focused on providing business support, debt and equity to viable
entrepreneur-owned businesses in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda,
Oman, Nigeria and South Africa.
‘Investing Private Capital in Emerging and Frontier Market SME’s’. The 2nd Geneva Private Capital Symposium focuses on Small- and Medium-Enterprise investment in emerging markets as a viable and often overlooked investment option.
A World Bank produced Google map on doing business in 175 countries. Countries are colour-coded with placemarks in three categories for ease of doing business.
Website of the Global Crop Diversity Trust (GCDT). The GCDT’s mission is to ensure
the conservation and availability of crop diversity for food security worldwide. |
Website for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The
CBD represents agreement among the majority of governments on
maintaining the world’s ecological underpinnings. The CBD establishes
three main goals: the conservation of biological diversity,
the sustainable use of its components, and the fair and equitable
sharing of the benefits from the use of genetic resources.
International Treaty on Plant genetic resources with objectives to conserve and sustain use of Plant genetic resources for food and agriculture and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits derived from their use, in harmony with the Convention
on Biological Diversity, for sustainable agriculture and food security.
Conference proceedings from ‘Food Security and Biodiversity:
Sharing the benefit of Plant genetic resources’. The benefit
sharing provision of the International Treaty of Plant genetic resources and its meaning for agriculture, biodiversity and
food security. New rules for research and commerce involving
plant genetics. |
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