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Waiting for the Mangoes to Ripen : Access to credit frees Haitian farmers to sell and invest on their own terms
The Haiti Hope Project is a partnership to help 25,000 farmers double their fruit income by ensuring greater value for their high-quality native mangoes. Haiti Hope brings together public and private partners, including USAID, The Coca-Cola Company; the Multilateral Investment Fund, a member of the Inter-American Development Bank Group; and TechnoServe.
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- Agriculture
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Ban joins Hispaniola effort against cholera
Ban Ki-moon has announced a new initiative that will support a 10-year effort against cholera in Haiti. This comes amid mounting calls for the United Nations to take responsibility over the spread of the disease in the country.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Latin America
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- public health
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Reshaping the Future of Cocoa in Africa
Seventy percent of the world’s cocoa now comes from West Africa, where family-run farms have proliferated across the landscape in recent decades. Yet in a paradox, the spread of these nonnative cocoa trees often contributes to deforestation.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya SMEs Get U.S.$60 Million
Nairobi — The World Bank has extended a $60 million loan towards boosting Kenya's fledgling Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) sector.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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From NYC To Nairobi: Interview With SunCulture, Audience Choice Award Winners 2011-12
All entrepreneurs are inherently risk-takers, but some are willing to go above and beyond for an idea they believe in. NYU Stern alumnus Samir Ibrahim and serial entrepreneur Charles Nichols, winners of the Audience Choice Award at the 2011-12 Entrepreneur’s Challenge fit this description perfectly. The two recently packed their bags and moved to Kenya, where their start-up SunCulture sells solar-powered irrigation products and agricultural services to local farmers.
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- Agriculture, Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- solar
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UN FAO calls for sustained investment in global agriculture
Excessive corruption, poor infrastructure and scarce government resources were deterring investment in agriculture and contributing to high levels of malnourishment around the world, said an FAO report released Thursday.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Weekly Roundup: Big Deals, Big Reports and the Bono Bump
Bamboo Finance and Accion Investments in Microfinance, SPC this announced what they called a “landmark” transaction for the impact investment industry. And based on what I’ve read this week, it’s hard not to see it any other way. Private equity firm Bamboo Finance will take a controlling stake in Accion’s for-profit equity fund, which for nearly 10 years has provided capital to microfinance institutions.
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- Agriculture
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Carlyle Group to Make Africa Investment
Private-Equity Firm Is Latest to Follow Rush Into Continent With Sub-Saharan Fund; 'We're Here for the Long Haul'
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa