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Insurance for Ethiopian Herders Aims to Combat Drought, Conflict
Nomadic livestock herders in Ethiopia have received their first payout from an insurance scheme that tracks poor pasture conditions with satellite technology.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A New Milk Can for The Developing World, Funded by Bill Gates
When you buy milk in America, it generally comes from farmers with hundreds of cows. They do their own milking with mechanized equipment, and, generally, their own pasteurization and bottling. In Kenya, it's different. About 80% of the country's milk comes from small-scale farmers with a few cows, who milk by-hand. They don't do bottling and, instead of trucks to get to market, they go by bike or foot.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Five Digital Payment Innovations with the Potential to Transform Development: Visa and NetHope grant recipients illustrate the power of digital payments
Development organizations have begun to embrace digital payments in areas that range from health and education, to food security and poverty alleviation. Visa is working with NetHope to help expand the impact of organizations working in these areas, by supporting programs that utilize electronic transfers and/or payments. These five grant recipients show how digital payments can enhance development and relief efforts.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Turning the tap on: Water as a business model
Too many people in the world don’t have access to safe drinking water in their homes. This month’s meeting of theWorld Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council in Dubai could be the first step to changing that.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Gates Foundation refutes report it fails African farmers
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has rejected accusations that too much of its funding goes to Western researchers, saying it is helping small farmers in African countries.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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PRESS RELEASE: Pershing Square Foundation Makes $611,000 Grant To myAgro To Support Small-Scale West African Farmers
The Pershing Square Foundation has announced a grant of $611,000 to myAgro – an organization that helps small-scale West African farmers save their way out of poverty through a unique mobile layaway lending program, allowing them to increase harvests by an estimated 75%.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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From Seed to Harvest, BASF’s BoP Initiative is Rooted in Education, Profits: A video Q&A from BCTA’s Forum 2014
“The single biggest need gap we found was in information,” said Raman Ramachandran, chairman of BASF Companies in India, during last month’s Business Call to Action Forum 2014. Bridging that gap rested with providing Indian farmers tips on how and when to fertilize and safely utilize pesticides. Ramachandran sat down with NB to provide more details on the project that is boosting farmer knowledge and income.
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- Agriculture
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Shared Information = Sustainability (Survivability): Group fighting leprosy makes inroads through mutual support, self-help groups and loans
Self-help groups of six to eight people – all affected by leprosy – not only offer mutual support, but also receive training in self-care, skills to rebuild lives and incomes and life skills such as how to open a bank account and manage group finances.
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- Agriculture, Education, Environment, Health Care