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Trade, biodiversity, and sustainable development agendas can be mutually supportive, with small businesses as key agents of change.  

Fragility manifests in different ways, across countries, regions and types of firms. The new ITC Fragility Exposure Index shows that small, informal, youth, and women-led firms often experience harsher repercussions from fragility than their larger, formal, older, and men-led counterparts,...

Can vulnerabilities become opportunities for resilience and food security? We believe the answer is yes, by transforming food systems in agriculture dependent economies through agroecology.

Using biotechnology, entrepreneur Lidia Díaz from the Dominican Republic sets out to conquer the frozen vegan food market. In a creative manner, she caters to the needs of conscious consumers who care for their health and the environment – and at the same time supports her local community. Read...

UNIDO's visionary approach

Evelyn Seltier of Trade Forum talked to Dinesh Prasad Parajuli, Chief Executive Officer of the Agro Enterprise Center in Nepal and the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce, about how the partnership with a banking institution has impacted the lives of small-scale farmers in his home country...

A closer look at how ITC turns the digital transition of small businesses in Africa into a sustainable proposition.

Vanuatu, a small island developing State in the Pacific, was ranked as the most vulnerable country globally to natural hazards in 2019. Sitting in the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” Vanuatu experiences frequent volcanic and seismic activity, facing existential threats due to rising sea level, ocean...

Small businesses are no exception!

Zena Exotic Fruits SA is one of Senegal’s agri-food wonders. Created in 1986, the family production’s name pays tribute to the first granddaughter of founder Toufic Filfili, who migrated from Lebanon to Senegal and created a company that would turn local mangoes destined for waste, into jams...

Evelyn Seltier of Trade Forum talked with Tasneem Essop about the “just” in the “just transition” and what this really means for vulnerable communities in countries that are affected the most by climate change.   Tasneem is the Executive Director of Climate Action Network –...

How do you recultivate abandoned and degraded land, empower women’s rights and fight hunger at the same time?   Plant the crop fonio, a revolutionary idea by Salma Abdulai in Northern Ghana.