• IFC Press Release
    Honey Care Africa, an IFC-supported small business whose supply chain has doubled the incomes of some of Kenya's poorest people, is the winner of a prestigious United Nations sustainable development award.
  • MIT SMR Article
    By analyzing 50 cases of successful sustainable enterprise in developing countries, the authors developed a conceptual framework they call the Sustainable Local Enterprise Network model.
  • Enterprise Development
    Honey Care also offers extension services to farmers either directly or through a network of local NGOs. Honey Care purchases the honey from the farmers in its network at guaranteed Fair Trade prices, manages all collection logistics and then processes the honey at its small Nairobi plant.
  • Honey Care signs agreement with World Bank
    Honey Care Africa, a Fair Trade company dedicated to promoting sustainable community-based beekeeping, recently signed an Agreement with James Wolfensohn, the President of the World Bank Group, in Washington D.C.
  • Honey Care Africa's Tripartite Model: A New Approach To Solve An Old Problem In Kenya
  • York University Media Release
    Environment Canada and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) will present the prestigious international Equator Prize today to Honey Care Africa Ltd. of Kenya, a private venture in community-based beekeeping led by York University student Farouk Jiwa.
  • Wharton Global Business Forum 2004
    Honey Care's partners include the World Bank, International Finance Corporation, Africa Now, European Union, Aga Khan Foundation, DFID, Action Aid, DANIDA, German Agro-Action and UNDP among others.
  • Rethinking Development
    Honey Care Africa targets small-scale subsistence farmers in rural Kenya who have typically been ignored by government officials who have been more interested in larger cash crops such as coffee and tea. HCA also introduced new beekeeping technology to Kenya; by promoting the Langstroth hive, HCA was ensuring that they had a marketable product and that women and youth were able to participate in beekeeping.
  • IUCN at Johannesburg - Business Events
    ... Presentation by Farouk Jiwa. Honey Care Africa's Tripartite Model: An
    Experiment in Developing Sustainable Bee Keeping in Kenya.
  • Aga Khan Foundation
    Farouk Jiwa ( BSc, Environmental Biology, Queen's University, Kingston,
    Ontario) has found a dream job in Nairobi with Honey Care Africa Ltd.
  • IUCN - in the press
    .Honey Care Africa Ltd. - Kenya. Based on a vision of environmentally
    sustainable income generation.
  • Honey For Money, Bees For Free - Honey Care Africa's Approach to Sustainable Bee Keeping in Kenya .
  • UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
    ... AFRICA: Support Group for Conservation and Sustainable Development Initiatives
    (CACID)
  • Development Marketplace
    ... Objective: The project aims to introduce both existing and new beekeepers to Honey
    Care Africa, an ethical private sector company that guarantees beekeepers a ...
  • Hands On: Bee Fair - Kenya
    Honey Care Africa manufactures and supplies hives and related bee-keeping
    equipment to organisations, communities and individuals across Kenya. ...
  • NGO World Photo Gallery : Honey Care Africa (Honey Care Africa staff arrives on the scene in Kitui, Kenya, a small town in the semi-arid region east of Nairobi.)
  • York's daily bulletin
    Representatives from Environment Canada and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) today presented the prestigious international Equator Prize to MES student Farouk Jiwa, in his capacity as general manager of Honey Care Africa Ltd., a private venture in community-based beekeeping created and managed by Jiwa in his native country of Kenya.
  • Everybody's Business
    Most governments, agencies and institutions are stuck in that fragmented world which divides the public and the private sector, the non-profit and for-profit sector, donors and their beneficiaries, and so on. Social entrepreneurs challenge that thinking.