Sustainable Community-Owned Enterprises

<p>Sustainable community-owned enterprises are owned by members of the community with no individual owning more than five percent of the enterprise. All members have equal voting rights-and everyone benefits.</p><p>John Makilya a native of Kenya who has implemented numerous sustainable community-owned enterprises shares examples of successful initiatives in this book. He explains how they distributed benefits to members without depleting resources for future generations.</p><p>He also highlights models that have not helped everyday people such as Kenya's sugar industry which relies on small-scale producers. Even with government subsidies the country continues to import most of its sugar from neighboring countries that rely on plantation-style models.</p><p>Likewise the beef cattle industry-as a result of mismanagement and other problems-has failed to live up to its promise.</p><p>Join the author as he explores how selected projects in water savings and credit coffee horticulture and other sectors qualify as sustainable community-owned enterprises-and how they help everyday people the world and future generations.</p>