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Going Local for Food Security : Winners of GBSN MBA+ Challenge Video Contest also tackle solar power, supply chains
MamaCarts was created because our team saw an opportunity in the breakdown of current systems. By taking a grassroots approach we will be able to create localized ripples in community health and economic stability, one meal at a time. Our next step is to finalize partnerships on the ground and launch a pilot in Kenya.
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- Education, Health Care
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Learning From Mayonnaise: Can the power of marketing boost demand for micronutrients?
Food companies use some truly innovative marketing tactics to get customers to consume more of their products. But if these tactics work for mayonnaise, can they also work for micronutrient-fortified cereal, or food supplements rich in bio-available nutrients? Grant Tudor discusses the role marketing can play in increasing demand for nutrient-rich foods.
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Poor and Unbanked in India?: Why 12 digits could equal financial inclusion
The Aadhaar program has already begun issuing 12-digit individual identification numbers that will soon let Indians verify their identity and address any time, anywhere within the country. Each Aadhaar ID number is connected to a citizen’s biometric data: photograph, iris scans and fingerprints. It will allow individuals to document their credit history and link their ID number to electronic payments through an Aadhaar-connected bank account.
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Weekly Roundup – 5/19/13: A ‘fork in the road’ for B-Schools
Many business schools have maintained social entrepreneurship education in the same way that corporations cordon off corporate social responsibility initiatives. That is, the CSR projects are highlighted in glossy brochures or annual reports, but are rarely integrated into the core of the company’s operations. Infusing social business knowledge into the standard courses within curriculum, is just one way to potentially break the pattern many lament.
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Putting the Horse Back in Front of the Cart: The dominant model of business education is broken
We desperately need new models of business education and entrepreneurial development appropriate to the challenges we face in the 21st century, which include epidemic inequality, ecosystem degradation, and a looming climate crisis.It is for this reason that I have become closely involved in the founding of the new Emergent Institute (originally the Indian Institute for Sustainable Enterprise), based in Bangalore, India.
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What are the most promising Base of the Pyramid business models in Latin America?
Housing, education and banking, increasingly through mobile technology, are three of the fastest growing areas for private companies doing business with the Base of the Pyramid. Dozens of BoP business practitioners and experts will discuss their companies’ successful models at the Inter-American Development Bank’s II BASE Forum International set for June 6-7, 2013 in Medellin, Colombia.
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Franchising Family Planning: Janani finds success – and challenges – in rural India
India is the site of a large share of global unmet need for contraception, with up to 23 percent of couples lacking family planning methods in some states. Janani, an NGO, is partnering with the Indian government to address this problem. It offers contraceptives and low-cost, high-quality reproductive health services through a combination of social marketing and franchising. Robert Hecht of Results for Development visited the group and discusses its work.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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India’s Solar Power Surge : Low interest loans and government subsidies could electrify off-grid, microgrid sector
If you’re a you are a solar technology manufacturer, service provider, or an equipment provider of components like batteries - access to low-cost financing has never been better. Offering industry an insight into the future road map, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy released draft guidelines for its Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission – an ambitious plan for quick commercialization and adoption of solar technologies.
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- Energy, Technology
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- infrastructure, solar
