How innovation helped drive prosperity for entrepreneurs during COVID-19 | World Economic Forum

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Overnight, lockdowns and a shifting set of local regulations meant that small businesses could not operate as they had for decades, allowing customers to enter and browse.

The platform enabled shoppers to place online orders for all their groceries via the Tienda Cerca mobile app or online, at no cost to them or the business owner.

This platform is – at its simplest – a tech product where small and medium-sized retailers can browse products, place orders, earn rewards, arrange deliveries, manage invoices and access business insights all from one place.

BEES was launched at the end of 2019 in the Dominican Republic as an investment in a digital future.

Of course, such growth is not created by any one company or organization.

The growing scarcity of freshwater resources is not just an issue for our company; it is a global risk to our communities’ economic, social and environmental wellbeing.

Through our partnership with GIZ, we seek to advance water efficient and regenerative farming practices in the framework of the funding programme develoPPP, which the GIZ implements on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.

More specifically, we are supporting farmers in the implementation of drip irrigation technology and conservation agriculture, as well as access to affordable financial services to make these changes.

Standards are organizations, usually NGOs, which certify that a particular project meets its stated objectives and its stated volume of emissions.

While compliance markets are currently limited to carbon credits from a specific region, voluntary carbon credits are significantly more fluid, unrestrained by boundaries set by nation-states or political unions.

The more minds we apply to the challenges of ending the pandemic, of improving the livelihoods of everyone, everywhere, and of strengthening and protecting the natural resources upon which local communities rely, the better.

As the world focuses on building back and recovering socially and economically from the COVID-19 pandemic, we must understand the opportunities related to economic empowerment in a fair and inclusive recovery.

That is what they are searching for leaders they can rely on to give them a little peace of mind in a turbulent world.

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