Past Consulting Projects
Market Linkages for Smallholder Sesame Farming in Ethiopia
A large international NGO recently embarked on a long-term agriculture scale-up program to achieve greater progress in poverty reduction in Ethiopia through supporting one million smallholder farmers. In this context, the Emergia Institute was asked to conduct a study of the sesame supply chain, assessing the role the NGO can play in order to assure that farmers will benefit from a potential large scale investment by an investor from the Middle East >
Market Entry Strategy for Moringa Products
Moringa is a tree naturalized in several African countries such as Tanzania, Kenya and Madagascar. The tree offers a variety of benefits: Its leaves are nutritious and can be used for cooking or to prepare tee. The moringa seeds contain oil. The objective of the project was to develop a market entry strategy for Moringa products and analyse the financial viability of large scale Moringa production >
Inclusive Business Model Development - Training and Primer
The UNDP Growing Sustainable Business Initiative supports companies in doing business with the poor for mutual benefit. This training and primer provide actionable tools and knowhow to help its brokers in more than a dozen countries accomplish their task more effectively >
Op-Ed on global trends and CSR
How does the economic crisis affect CSR activities? What do global trends mean for responsible management? Anna Peters of Bertelsmann Stiftung responds to these questions in an op-ed that is to be published within the next weeks. Christina Gradl and Claudia Knobloch provided their support through background research and analysis >
BOP India – Use of Internet-Kiosks in Rural Areas
Many multinational companies have identified the large opportunity to serve millions of new customers in developing countries. However, companies are often faced with the challenge on how to establish alternative sales and distribution channels in countries with a very fragmented market structure such as India or China. Thus, the present project developed suggestions for potential BOP market development activities, including a detailed concept to use internet-kiosks to improve farmers’ access to agricultural inputs and knowledge >
Sustainable Agriculture - Carbon saving and trading approaches
The Emergia Institute assisted a large agribusiness company in bringing a newly developed carbon saving project to market. The company had the objective to help farmers enjoy the benefits of carbon credit trading >
Development of a Biofuels Strategy
Emergia Institute developed a biofuel strategy, analyzing the market for first generation biofuel and helping the company to advance its product portfolio and technology to adjust to changing trends in the market >
Bertelsmann Stiftung: Responsible Management Abroad – Scanning the Information Landscape
What information do companies have about responsible management practices abroad? What information do they need? Research into these questions showed that companies demand more and more specific information on CSR abroad than is available at the moment >