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NexThought Monday – Want to Help a Bolivian Farmer?: Eat their quinoa
Andean farmers have enjoyed an economic bonanza from growing quinoa, a superfood beloved by foodies and vegetarians in the West. But the farmers’ success may prove their undoing, as farmers in the United States and Canada have begun growing the grain.
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Weekly Roundup – 8/17/13: Why the Top of the Pyramid might just want to pay attention to the base
Christine Driscoll Goulay, the associate director of the INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Initiative, has a wake up call for luxury brands: Your customers may not be following you. Her solution: CSR 3.0, which leans heavily on the Base of the Pyramid.
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The Future of the BoP Domain: Where is our missing community?
I believe that it is time to start talking more about how we, as a sector, can collectively share – and debate – the lessons learned so far in order to better create the future path ahead of us. But in order to do that, we need to be more of a community.
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The Best of July 2013: NextBillion’s most-read, most-shared posts
July is supposed to be a slow time as a month of leisure. This July on NextBillion ... not so much.
There was no resting on laurels in July, at least among our regular contributors. How high-end high tech can find its way to the BoP, why mobile money is so far ahead of other sectors, and building a market for tractors in Uganda were the most read posts on NB last month.- Categories
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Making Financial Inclusion a Global Reality by 2020: Financial Inclusion 2020 invites nominations for the Global Forum, Oct. 28-30, 2013
Financial Inclusion 2020 (FI2020) is building a movement that mobilizes stakeholders around the world to achieve financial inclusion by 2020. To help map an action agenda for achieving that goal, the project is organizing the Global Forum on Oct. 28-30, 2013 in London. It has a very limited number of seats available, but is accepting nominations for senior executives and thought leaders to attend.
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A New Opportunity for Successful Green and Inclusive Businesses: The CHANGING Markets Award is seeking enterprising nominees
The CHANGING Markets Award implemented by adelphi on behalf of GIZ seeks to strengthen the visibility, growth and replication of successful green and inclusive businesses. It offers training and networking opportunities for 10 finalists and 5,000 Euro for up to three winners. The submission deadline is Sept. 1.
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- Environment
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Expanding the Scope of Health Care: A roundtable discussion on nutrition’s impact on health, featuring World Food Program Senior Nutrition Advisor Martin Bloem
About two billion people suffer from malnutrition in both developed and developing countries, with another two billion suffering from hidden hunger. We need new approaches to this crisis, as awareness grows of the impact of nutrition on health. Martin Bloem, Senior Nutrition Advisor with the World Food Programme, discussed these issues with Ashoka Changemakers and other nutrition experts.
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The New Alchemists of Credit
In the days before the Internet – how could we live without it? – the opinions of neighbors, teachers, store owners, or the friends and enemies of a person from the community was sufficient to determine the character of a person. Now that we’re living in a hyper-connected world, then why not give the same function to social networks?
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