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Looking back at successful symposium
On 18 and 19 November 2015 ICS organised, together with partner Ka Tutandike Uganda, the first regional symposium on scaling social businesses in East Africa. For two days, the Sheraton Hotel in Kampala (Uganda) formed the stage of the search to balance between people, planet and profit.
Seeing is believing
Agrics Tanzania, one of ICS' social businesses, has started with the set up of a new demonstration plot this week. To show smallholder farmers the differences in output whenever they use cerfified seeds and fertilizer.
Every plot of land is unique
Read the interview with Marije Tanis, interim projectmanager of Geodatics, a brand new social enterprise by ICS and their partners Agrics, Biomass Research, Manobi and University of Wageningen. Geodatics is advising smallholder farmers in East Africa on their plot of land to increase their crops.