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Cash Versus Cows (Part 2): What’s more scalable – cash transfers or in-kind transfers?
Successfully catapulting ultra-poor households over the extreme poverty line is incredibly hard work, and requires philanthropic capital and grant-based approaches. In this second part of a two-part series, BRAC’s Rod Dubitsky and Sadna Samaranayake pose a seemingly simple question: Is it better to give a cow or cash to seed sustainable livelihoods for the poorest-of-the-poor?
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- Agriculture
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Why Mobile Wallets Will Be Offered to 120,000 Zambian Farmers
MTN Chief Sales and Distribution Officer Amos Jere told journalists at the Zambia Agriculture Show that MTN Zambia plans to work with 120,000 farmers in the next farming season through the Ericsson Wallet Platform. Quoted by the Lusaka Times, he said that the company is in the process of rolling out our mobile money platform to integrate MTN Mobile Money with all banks in the country and added that some 4,000 subsistence farmers in the country have already been successfully paid through the platform for their cotton sales in Eastern Province.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A Magic Wand for Nutrition and Incomes in Mozambique?
Smallholder farmers in Mozambique are growing nutritious and lucrative varieties of orange-fleshed sweet potato.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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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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- public health
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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
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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