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From the Farm to the World, on a Plate : In Colombia, improving value for farmers, supply chains and the environment
Crepes & Waffles, a well-known Colombian restaurant chain, is developing a pilot project to connect agro-biodiversity products with companies from the gourmet food sector. This initiative is based on the premise that higher-value and higher demand for organic products with agricultural biodiversity will encourage farmers to cultivate these varieties and, thus, contribute to the preservation of native species in the process.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- supply chains
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For MFIs, the future is ‘go green,’ or ‘go broke’
Microloans are a vital tool for farmers and rural entrepreneurs to upgrade their businesses or invest in the next growing season. But what happens to microfinance models when the next growing season never materializes?
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- Agriculture
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- Latin America
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Flexible ‘Kit Yamoyo’ Pack Counters Diarrhea in Developing Countries
ColaLife has partnered with Amcor Flexibles to develop a lightweight Flexi-pack, or pouch, now being distributed in remote areas within Zambia to help battle childhood diarrhea (watch a video on the pack here).
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Latest ‘Lemelson Foundation’ Report Spotlights Indian Inventors
A recent report by the Lemelson Foundation highlights financing, technical assistance, mentoring that offers concrete solutions to help invention based businesses thrive. World’s leading funder of invention in service of social and economic change, Lemelson Foundation examines India’s impact ecosystem that caters to the broad network of businesses, funders, and intermediaries that enable social enterprise and inventors potential to grow.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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How Unilever Is Harnessing Its Brand and Consumer Know-How to Tackle Hygiene
It’s one of the most cost effective public health interventions and it could prevent disease, death and also improve education outcomes, but the challenge for hand-washing is convincing people to actually do it. Unilever, a powerful global brand, is working both through its business and with partners to leverage the company’s skills to help tackle the issue, both because it will grow markets but also because there’s a clear moral case for doing so.
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- Agriculture, Education, Health Care
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Indian American Social Entrepreneur Bhagwati Agrawal in CNN’s Top 10 Heroes List
Bhagwati Agrawal, an Indian American social entrepreneur, has advanced into CNN’s Top Ten Heroes of 2015 for creating a rainwater harvesting system that provided safe drinking water to more than 10,000 people across six villages in Rajasthan.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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These Solar-Powered Machines Help Farmers Dry Their Food Instead of Letting It Rot
A lot of food grown in developing countries never makes it to the people's bellies. Because of a lack of refrigeration, it rots during transport or when farmers fail to sell it immediately at markets. Every year, 1.3 billion tons of food (with a value of more than $1 trillion) is wasted in this way, according to the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization.
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- Agriculture, Energy
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- social enterprise, solar
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MasterCard Foundation Investing $47M in Agricultural Finance Projects Across Africa
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has commended the MasterCard Foundation's pronouncement of investing $47 million in agricultural finance projects across Africa, including $15 million for a partnership with AGRA that will deliver financial support to 730,000 farming households.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing