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ImpactAssets deploys $3.5 million to support smallholder farmers in Latin America
ImpactAssets announced today that it has deployed more than $3.5MM in support of smallholder farmers in Honduras, Costa Rica, Chile and Peru through their recently launched Global Sustainable Agriculture Note. This lower-minimum publicly offered debt security broadens investor access to grower cooperatives and agricultural enterprises.
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- Agriculture
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- Latin America
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Uncommon Cacao Raises Impact Investment Capital From Acumen, PI Investments
Uncommon Cacao, an industry-leading premium cacao supply chain operation, announced the closing of its Series A impact investment capital raise led by Pi Investments as lead investor and Acumen as the largest investor in the round.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- Latin America
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Bill Gates to donate chickens to Africa’s poor
Gates will donate 100,000 birds vaccinated against common diseases under a program he said would boost incomes because chickens are inexpensive to care for, a good investment and help provide nutrition for children.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Feeding the Future of Aquaculture – One Insect at a Time
Kenya’s aquaculture industry is booming, growing at 10 percent a year. But overfishing and a lack of sustainable fish feed is holding back industry growth and profits for farmers. For Kulisha, a social enterprise founded by university students in business and environmental science, the solution is a little black fly.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Social Enterprise
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UPDATED Weekly Roundup: Haiti’s Peanut Pushback, Moms Vs. Markets and Should Google’s Payday Ban Apply to Microfinance?
This week in the roundup we consider the pushback of Haitian farmers and NGOs against the U.S. government's mass peanut donation, how marketers might be undermining mothers who breastfeed, and whether Google's ban on ads from payday lenders could justifiably be applied to microfinance.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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NexThought Monday: Our inaugural podcast – a conversation with the MasterCard Foundation’s Ann Miles
In April, the MasterCard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity awarded over $10 million to five innovative companies working to increase financial access in rural Africa. In NextBillion's inaugural podcast, we spoke to Ann Miles, Director of Financial Inclusion & Youth Livelihoods at the MasterCard Foundation, about the competition's winners and the broader digital financial inclusion space in Africa.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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Weekly Roundup: Burning the Ivory to Save It
Late last week Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta helped set 105 tons of poached elephant ivory and rhino horns ablaze. It was a drastic step to help kill a black market where the horns and tusks would have fetched $100 million. This week we were reminded of other market building forces in Africa and Ecuador.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Investing
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One Acre Fund Expands Smallholder Farmer Services to Malawi and Uganda
One Acre Fund (http://www.OneAcreFund.org), a nonprofit agriculture organization that supplies smallholder farmers with the financing and training they need to increase their incomes and food security, today announced the official opening of its Malawi and Uganda operations. Malawi and Uganda began as pilots in 2013 and 2014 respectively. One Acre Fund now serves 400,000 smallholder farmers—with an estimated two million people in those households—across East and Southern Africa.
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- Press Release
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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