The Folha Network of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs is a community comprised of finalists and winners of the Social Entrepreneur Award promoted by Folha de Sao Paulo. Over the last…
The conscious, authorial, and collective fashion brand, Almenara Têxtil, debuted at Minas Trend and brought, straight from the Jequitinhonha Valley, all the beauty and strength of the women’s hands that…
Food is much more than the ingredients in a pot. It carries memories, stories, and traditions that span generations. In the concept of affective food, each dish can be a…
The Mariense Handicraft Cooperative (COMARTE), founded in 1999 in the municipality of Maria da Fé, in the south of Minas Gerais, is a living example of how local handicrafts can…
Benchmarking aims to research, analyze, and filter useful strategies from related businesses in order to turn them into potential initiatives. At Raízes Desenvolvimento Sustentável, we use this methodology in our…
The performance of the Mãos à Moda Almenara project is going “from strength to strength”, as the saying goes! On August 8th, the initiative reached an important milestone: the project’s…
In the heart of Baixo Jequitinhonha, in Minas Gerais state, a project transforms lives and fosters entrepreneurship in the next generation. Mãos à Moda Jovem, an offshoot of the Young Entrepreneur…
The moment we’ve all been waiting for has arrived: it is time to meet the projects selected for the 2nd edition of the Mentoring for Small Tourism Businesses, promoted by…
Is there any way to make businesses more sustainable? Which indicators should be chosen? Let’s start by saying that the answer is “yes” and that there is no single standard….
We hear a lot about logistical problems and structural issues in the city of Belém when it comes to holding the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations…
In a dispersed society, where information is abundant but subject to interests and where disinformation reigns, in times of no time, it is often difficult to measure, to show the…
Sustainable and authorial fashion represents an innovative and conscious approach to the fashion industry, which focuses on creating unique or small-scale pieces, produced ethically and with minimal environmental impact. The…
