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Oxfam Vietnam Will Begin Investing in Social Enterprises
Oxfam’s office in Vietnam has launched a new impact investing program to support social enterprises in the country.
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- Agriculture
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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It’s Time to WASH Up: Three lessons for developing effective water, sanitation and hygiene interventions
The lack of access to safe sanitation and clean water holds back social and economic development through negative impacts on health, education and livelihoods. Research shows the situation can be improved through interventions that place an emphasis on the end beneficiary and leverage local private-public expertise in design and delivery.
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- Agriculture, Education, Health Care
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NexThought Monday – Making the Food Trade Work for All: On Cesar Chavez Day, approaches to growing quality food that uphold human dignity
Whether it’s a pineapple farm in Costa Rica or an apple farm in North America, farm workers can often find themselves a part of a globally marginalized, transient and largely invisible workforce that brings us our food each day. Just as the issues in our global food systems cannot be addressed by problem-solving in one region alone, restoring pride and dignity to the American farm worker also requires a far more global perspective and approach.
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- Agriculture
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The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Food
Newly engineered foods. A TV show satirizing big AG. Farming practices that reduce greenhouse gases. Here are the companies that are cooking up new ideas and changing how we think about our food.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Health Care
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- nutrition
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Grameen Foundation announces funding boost for microfinance activities in Latin America
US charitable foundation Grameen Foundation has announced new $500,000 match funding backing to aid its Last Mile Initiative, that’s helping lift communities from rural poverty, including farmers in Colombia and Guatemala...
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Innovative business model introduced to benefit oil palm farmers
B-BOVID, an agribusiness based on social entrepreneurship principles, is introducing a unique profit-sharing concept to its oil palm enterprise which, will greatly benefit local farmers and their communities.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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Maker of Toms shoes expands into coffee roasting
Toms, the Los Angeles company known for its comfy, eco-friendly footwear and its shoes-donating ways, is tiptoeing into an unusual product line: coffee.
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- Agriculture
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Competitive Co-Advantage: In an iDE initiative ‘farm business advisors’ help deliver products and profits to Cambodian farmers
Lors Thmey, which means "new growth" in Khmer, teaches local entrepreneurs to become farm business advisors (FBAs). That means that in addition to selling products to farmers, they’re trained to be consultants, too. As a result, farmers produce better crops and make more money, and the FBAs expand their businesses and boost their incomes, too.
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- Agriculture
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