Articles by Tarini Mohan
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Tuesday
March 29
2016Helping Smallholders Grow a Pharmacy on their Farms
Eliminating hidden hunger is not easy, but with resources in the right place, with governments, donors and civil society working together and with the right policies developed, BRAC believes it can introduce poor children in developing countries to a nutritious vegetable – the orange-fleshed sweet potato – they will come to favor.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- nutrition
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Guest Articles
Thursday
December 17
2015Does Your Organization Actually Empower Women?
Although many organizations working in international development make grandiose claims of their programs’ ability to empower women, with few tools available to actually measure empowerment, it is hard to tell if these claims are based on fact. The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index is one way to ensure that they are.
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- Agriculture, Impact Assessment
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Monday
August 3
2015NexThought Monday – Power in Numbers: How organizing, even informally, benefits smallholder farmers
Markets don't address the needs of smallholder farmers. To remain competitive, these farmers will have to join forces with other smallholders and the external community will need to assist them by encouraging and enabling the formation of farmers' organizations.
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- Agriculture
