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Creating an Efficient Funnel for Inclusive Business: How agri-processors, farmers, food banks and the government are blending an alliance
Minka-Dev helped a growing food ingredients company in Colombia connect with smallholder farmers. The authors, both from Minka-Dev, detail the process, which involves not only farmers, but also food banks, government and business players.
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- Agriculture
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Striving for Consistency: A new guide aims to standardize impact assessments of the growing microinsurance market
Estimates suggest there are close to 270 million microinsurance clients in the developing world, with a potential market estimated at 3 to 4 billion policies. But while assessing the social impact of this growing sector is vital to improving product design, there is a dearth of consistency amongst the impact assessments being conducted. Microinsurance Network created “A Practical Guide to Impact Assessments” to address this challenge.
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- Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment
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NexThought Monday – Test Tubers: Why potatoes in Bangladesh are turning heads in the Andes
If you’re a subsistence farmer of potatoes, cassava or bananas, you’ll often sow your crops by taking cuttings from other plants. An alternative method of in vitro micro-propagation involves cloning plantlets in a laboratory setting. This can lead to dramatic gains in crop yields, but it’s expensive. But there may be a low-tech solution.
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- Agriculture, Education, Technology
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- research
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Twitter Top Ten – 3/1/15
Our weekly Twitter Top 10 is only a click away, and full of information. Among the highlights: Bill Gates put on his green eyeshade (you might have to look that one up, millennials) and assumed the role of editor.
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- Health Care
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Weekly Roundup – Walking Across the Bridge as You Build It
For companies that seek not only global expansion but sincerely hope to create inclusive businesses that serve lower-income people, much of the low-hanging (profitable) fruit has been taken. The next step for those businesses and their managers might be into some unfamiliar territory, especially given those managers’ educational experiences.
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- Education
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- academia
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NextBillion’s (First) Market Dynamics E-book: A compilation of posts from the first year of our initiative
The market – the same supply and demand interplay that has helped create order and prosperity in the developed world – is failing to serve health care in the developing world. That’s why “market dynamics” has become a term du jour in global health, and why NextBillion Health Care in spring 2014 launched an initiative aimed to exploring the concept. Now we’ve added an e-book.
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- Health Care
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- vaccines
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Can Anything Good Come Out of Playing Poverty?: The Two Dollar Challenge says Yes – if it’s done the right way
A lot of us feel compelled to do something about global poverty, whether it’s through mission trips, buying a pair of TOMS shoes, or starting a non-profit. Some of these approaches are effective; a lot are not. Shawn Humphrey explores the lack of consciousness that causes many anti-poverty efforts to fail, and describes how the Two Dollar Challenge hopes to help people develop this consciousness.
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- Education
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One Drop at a Time : A new book examines how CARE’s long-term efforts in the dairy value chain have benefited Bangladeshi farmers
CARE’s long-term work in the dairy sector in Bangladesh is considered one of the most intensely developed agricultural value chain initiatives in the world. Authors Kevin McKague and Muhamad Siddiquee discuss its business-centered successes in their new book, Making Markets More Inclusive: Lessons from CARE and the Future of Sustainability in Agricultural Value Chain Development.
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- Agriculture
