Madhumakhiwala was established in 2019 with the goal of producing raw honey products while fulfilling its social mission of involving the local community in honey production and sales to uplift their livelihoods. Over six years, Madhumakhiwala successfully expanded its customer base and apiary operations across various Indian states. However, the firm continued to face challenges in distribution and supply chain management. The venture had the capacity .....more

Ed Newton purchased two farms, the Big Farm and Little Farm, on the west coast of New Zealand in 2014. In 2018, facing issues like low productivity and high input costs, he discovered the Astronaut A5, an automatic milking system made by Lely International NV. This system could improve output and reduce his environmental carbon footprint, especially important due to the upcoming agricultural carbon tax in 2025. If he invested, Newton planned to create .....more

In July 2021, executives of Jamaica Broilers Group Limited (JBG), a vertically integrated poultry business headquartered in Jamaica with a subsidiary in Haiti (Haiti Broilers S.A.), were monitoring the social and political fallout from the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moise. Haiti Broilers had already reduced staff and operations in 2019 because of ongoing civil unrest. With the presidential assassination in 2021, JBG expected further .....more

Longchuan Green Oil Agricultural Development Co. Ltd. (Green Oil) was founded in Guangdong, China in January 2015. The founder’s unwavering pursuit for sustainable development led the company to overcome initial technical challenges and mid-stage struggles in market expansion and product line development. With new technologies and use of pure pesticide-free camellia seeds, Green Oil led the market in terms of product quality, research and development, .....more

Nestled against the Pacific waves, the coastal community of Cocholgue, Chile, had become a focal point for Bureo Inc.’s innovative environmental efforts in recent years. Bureo was an emerging benefit corporation (B Corp) dedicated to addressing the growing problem of discarded fishing nets, a major source of ocean pollution, by transforming them into new products. Bureo’s Net Positiva initiative was instrumental in collecting and recycling old nets, .....more

In January 2024, Stephanie Carteret, chief executive officer of environmental solutions provider Sensor-H, faced a pivotal moment in her young company’s development. A report summarizing responses to an internal employee consultation exercise revealed deep cause for concern about the management of the company. Rapid growth had brought in its wake a series of personnel problems, which she needed to fix if the company were to be properly positioned .....more

Help Us Green LLC (HUG), based in Kanpur, India, manufactured incense sticks from floral waste discarded from religious places like temples. Throughout its early stages as it attempted to establish a niche in the domestic market, amidst the challenges of scaling in a price-sensitive environment with limited awareness of sustainable practices, HUG had remained steadfast in its focus on the domestic market. The co-founder was now considering whether .....more

<div style="font-size: 0.95em; line-height: 1.4;"><p align="justify">In 2024, the US-based Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP) hosted two tentpole events. Both events were part of larger initiatives by MilkPEP to address gender inequality in sports and to modernize milk’s image as a performance beverage. MilkPEP launched a national campaign using the tagline “You’re Gonna Need Milk for That.” The phrase became .....more

Kullvi Whims LLP was founded in 2012, and it created a "fleece to fabric" sustainable supply chain out of fading traditional knowledge in wool and the making of woollen garments by artisanal communities of the Kullu region of Himachal Pradesh in India. The company helped to rejuvenate links between the pastoral communities and artisans living in the villages of Kullu, and revived centuries-old designs and motifs. It built social and economic .....more

In May 2024, Vernon Burke, owner and chief operating officer of Burke Family Farms, was deciding which of three options would be best for his cash crop operations when his existing combine harvester lease came to an end in two months. He could buy out his lease, buy a used combine, or outsource the work and pay another farmer to harvest his crops.