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Report: Simple mobile services can boost Indian farmers’ income
The introduction of a number of simple mobile services in India has the potential to boost the income of two-thirds of the country’s small-scale farmers by up to $9 billion a year by 2020, according to a report by Vodafone.
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- Agriculture
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- South Asia
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Into Acumen’s Latin American Expansion: Patient capital fund hopes to deploy $8 million in 10 enterprises in Colombia and Peru in five years
Earlier this month, the philanthropic impact investing group Acumen announced it would be expanding to Latin America. We caught up with Acumen’s Latin America Director Virgilio Barco about Acumen’s long-term social sector and portfolio goals, and the state of impact investing across Latin America, which may have gotten a slow start compared to other regions of the world, but seems to be making up ground at a rapid pace.
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- Agriculture, Social Enterprise
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- impact investing
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Analysis: Golden Rice in India: Is It Necessary? What Are Impediments to Adoption?
There is a saying in Chinese used to wish others well that means, “may you never live in interesting times.” In a complex world full of conflict, disease, and death, the idea of living in a simpler world without the plagues of the present must seem comforting to most. Sadly, this is not the world we live in, no matter how much one may wish it into reality. For those living in rural India, life can be a constant struggle.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- nutrition
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Silicon Valley’s Clean Tech Investors Eyeing Sustainable Food, Experts Say
Food is becoming the epicenter of the growing responsible investment movement in the San Francisco Bay area's Silicon Valley, panelists said during the impact investing discussion at Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Sustainable Food Institute last week.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- impact investing
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Solar-Powered ATMs to Deliver Clean Drinking Water in Pakistan
Punjab province is set to launch an innovation for water-short Pakistan: Solar-powered ATMs that dispense clean water when a smart card is scanned.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- solar
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India Needs to Improve Healthcare As Part of Global Millennium Development Goals: WHO
India and many other southeast Asian countries need to improve their record on public healthcare, the WHO said today as it warned that the world will fall short in achieving the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on many indicators by the end of this year.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Colombia Water Works: Turning Trash Into Cisterns
For more than a decade, Cecilia Uribe has relied on a higher power to provide a basic utility: water. In her sprawling neighborhood on the outskirts of Colombia’s capital, municipal water only ran twice a month, she explained, “so I would just wait for my God to make it rain.”
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- Agriculture
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- Latin America
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Monsoons Near, Nepal Focuses on Sanitation to Stem Illness After Quake
After years of intense effort, officials here in rural Sindhupalchok district had persuaded almost all of the nearly 61,000 households to each build a toilet. Then the earthquake struck, destroying most houses — and the very toilets that could have helped stave off the diseases that can run rampant after natural disasters.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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