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The Inextricable Link Between Health and Nutrition: How strategic design can change health behaviors
When it comes to promoting good nutrition, many innovators in the health space are starting to target people’s surrounding conditions rather than their individual behavior. Creating well-placed adjustments to an environment can unleash massive changes in people’s daily routine. By forming new habits through convenience instead of via force and enlightenment, design changes can help make health and nutrients available for all.
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Which Leading Investors are Seeking Profit and 100% Impact by 2020?: A push for the ‘Investing Pledge’ at the IMN Impact Investing Summit
Three leading investors shared how they are “Seeking Impact and Sustainable Investments” at the inaugural IMN Impact Investing Summit last week in Huntington Beach, CA. While most conference panels are mostly “talk,” this discussion described real investor commitments that seek positive financial, social and environmental gains. The panel also showcased a new initiative: The Investing Pledge, a society-wide, cross-sector collaborative opportunity for impact investors across all geographies to come together to build a better world across all asset classes in their portfolio.
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Bringing Sanitation Solutions Inside Homes: An Interview With Andy Narracott, Deputy Chief Executive of Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor
When the nonprofit Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) got together in 2010 with board member Unilever to explore new enterprise opportunities in sanitation, the consumer goods giant supported the idea wholeheartedly.
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Shaping a Market for Nutrient Economies – Part 1: The zinc conundrum
The concept of supply and demand seems pretty straightforward: consumers have a need, companies compete to meet it, and prices settle at a point where supply matches demand. But what happens when a clear need for a product doesn’t spark a thriving market? WDI’s Lisa Smith examines this conundrum as it relates to zinc treatment for diarrhea - and outlines supply-side interventions that could help.
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Featured Event – II BASE Forum: IDB’s II BASE Forum set for June 6-7
During the event OMJ will release a seminal research piece on the market size and business strategy of the BOP in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Announcing Ashoka Changemakers’ “Health Ideas” Week: A week-long discussion of nutrition’s impact on health
In health and wellness, everything is connected, from the soil that yields a staple crop to the policies of national governments. Global access to health is a critical need of our time, and it requires game-changing ideas from everyone from farmers to businesses. That’s why Ashoka Changemakers is hosting “Health Ideas” week on NextBillion Health Care, showcasing new opportunities and ideas that target global health from the perspectives of business, innovation and nutrition.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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NexThought Monday – An Unlikely Development Ally: Sizing the BoP market for low-power television
In rural areas, television is often the primary means through which households get information about life beyond their village. Nearly 20 million off-grid base of the pyramid households in Asia and Africa can afford low-power televisions at today’s prices. As incomes rise and technology prices fall, this market will expand.
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