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BoP Career Paths: A Former TechnoServe Volunteer Starts Investment Fund for African Businesses
Bryan McCoy recently became the CEO of Yalelo Ltd, a commercial aquaculture business serving domestic and regional markets from Lusaka, Zambia. McCoy is also a director of Sustainable Development Capital (SDC), which he co-founded in 2008 in order to invest in Swazi agribusinesses. His introduction to Africa occurred in 2007, when he spent six months volunteering for TechnoServe in Swaziland and Tanzania.
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- Agriculture
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New alliance for food security would accelerate agricultural development -Namoale
The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, an initiative to lift 50 million people out of poverty over the next 10 years through sustained agricultural growth, was on Wednesday launched in Accra.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa innovations: 15 ideas helping to transform a continent
A mobile phone database for dairy farmers and a strain of sweet potato that can help fight child blindness. These are just two of the imaginative new ideas that are tackling Africa's old problems
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- Agriculture, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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TechnoServe Launches Program to Boost Development of Central American and African Businesses
Some 560 SMEs will be able to develop their businesses through a new entrepreneurship development program, “Impulsa Tu Empresa (Boost Your Business), that TechnoServe plans to implement in Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and Burkina Faso in Africa. The program, supported by the Argidius Foundation, is designed to give mentoring and business training for entrepreneurs.
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- Agriculture, Education
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Linking Supply Chains, Farmers and Sustainability : A New Rainforest Alliance report analyzes the financing needs for investing in sustainable supply chains
Development agencies, private sector actors and NGOs are working with farmers globally to help them adapt their farming to the needs of the 21st century. But the financial sector argely has been behind the curve. With The Citi Foundation and Rabobank, the Rainforest Alliance launched a finance initiative focused injecting sustainability into supply chain finance.
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- Agriculture
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A Market for Preservation: Tropical-forest friendly products, entrepreneurship and consumer choice
CleanStar Energy, is social enterprise that focuses on bringing sustainable bioenergy solutions into developing markets while preserving delicate tropical forest communities. It’s the type of business being sought by the Tropical Forest Challenge, which aims to identify the best for-profit solution – an idea, start up, or company with a positive impact on tropical forest biodiversity.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Transportation
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Ideas man: professor in quest for India’s rural inventions
t's 43 degrees Celsius, and Prof. Anil Gupta has been hiking the scorched plains of central India for hours. But he smiles widely as he enters a tiny village in search of another unsung genius. "If you have any new ideas or you have any new inventions, I'm here to promote you," he tells farmers squatting beside a dusty roadside shrine to Lord Shiva.
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- Agriculture
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- South Asia
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Bridging the Gap: Unlocking Business Opportunities in Developing Countries
Local farmers or small companies lack the organization, knowledge, capital or incentives to provide these products. These factors are red flags for larger private-sector businesses looking to develop new sources of supply. What’s needed in these sectors is coordination at multiple points along the supply chain to help the market function properly.
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- Agriculture