Business Plans

Looking for an easy guide, something I can just fill in the blanks - nothing fancy - anything out there?

I grow a variety of vegetables and fruits and also have eggs. I want to donate some to a soup kitchen or homeless shelter etc. I plan on putting out collection boxes in local businesses to help collect money for this. Do I need to get any special permits or lisences to collect this money. Also f you have any other tips about this please tell. Thanks

Is this even a PLAN?

I’m interested in submitting a proposal for a business idea to a friend who heads up this company. Where do I start? What format should it be in?

Any help you can provide is GREATLY appreciated:

1) I know what I want to offer
2) I know how it would benefit them/me
3) I have the resources
4) I need their resources as well
5) I have cost detail

Where to start is what is sticking me… Thank you!!!

I have taken out books on the subject matter and am about to finish creating my business plan. I only need to seee the skelotons of these plans. Yr response to the issue will be of great appreciation.

Surge in biofuel production pushes up food prices
By Javier Blas and Jenny Wiggins in London

Published: July 16 2007 03:00 | Last updated: July 16 2007 03:00

A surge in the production of biofuels derived from corn, wheat and soyabeans is helping to push up food prices so sharply that the World Food Programme, the United Nations agency in charge of fighting famine, is finding it difficult to feed as many hungry people as it has in the past.

Josette Sheeran, WFP’s executive director, said in an interview with the Financial Times that rising food prices were “already having an impact on WFP operations”, and added: “There is a realisation we are facing a new level of challenge.”

Food commodity prices are surging because of a number of factors including rising demand from China and bad weather, but the potential consequences of the rising demand for biofuels have caught the attention of those in the business of feeding the world.

Mark Spelman, head of Accenture’s global energy practice, said the biofuel industry was at risk of creating a public backlash similar to wind-power generation, as food inflation continues.

“Wind power was a very popular renewable source of energy until a wind farm was planned in someone’s backyard,” he said.

Still, Paul O’Brien, overseas director for the humanitarian organisation Concern Worldwide, said higher food prices could benefit farmers in emerging markets if food aid programmes found it cheaper to spend cash donations in the countries they distribute food in, rather than in the US and Europe.

“What we would encourage is [food aid agencies] to look more locally . . . and for donors to give money to the WFP,” Mr O’Brien said.

Some 77 per cent of the WFP’s food purchases are made in developing countries.

Last year it spent $460m (€334m, £226m) in such countries, making the largest cash purchases in Uganda, Ethiopia and Pakistan. The United Nations organisation feeds some 90m people annually.

Ms Sheeran also said that her organisation and others were trying to make it easier for poorer farmers to benefit from rising demand for food, either by helping African farmers become more efficient and tapping new markets or by helping small farmers in Latin America benefit from the rising demand for biofuels.

“In a world of growing population, the African farmer will be needed,” she said.

The rise in food prices has also underlined the difficulties the WFP and other food aid programmes face when determining which type of donations they receive are more effective - cash or commodities.

About half of the donations the WFP receives are now made in cash, the rest in commodities. When the organisation started, it benefited mainly from surplus food donated by wealthy nations including the US. It now receives cash from many countries, and often, as is the case with the US, must spend that money on products grown in the donor country.

Marc Cohen, research fellow at the US’s International Food Policy Research Institute, said that the rise in food prices had reawakened questions over the best way to distribute food aid.

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2007

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I’m a newbie in this bag-making type of business but I am curious about it. I like to start a small venture specifically in making chic bags but I have zero idea about it. How do I start? Where can I find related information about bag-making?