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Indonesian farmers need innovative financing to boost productivity
The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin Indonesia) is calling for better access to finance for farmers to help increase their productivity.
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- Agriculture
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Final Event: Innovative solutions for a ‘Nutrients for All’ world
You’re invited for a Twitter Discussion (#SocEntChat) and Google+ Hangout on Wednesday, September 18th from 10am to 12:30pm EDT to debate some of the key innovation trends form the competition, connect with other social innovators and thought leaders, share the broader vision of Nutrients for All, and meet the competition winners.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- nutrition
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A ‘fishy’ way to prevent dengue
The Asian Development Bank and the World Health Organization have found their latest weapon against dengue-carrying mosquitoes: larvae-eating guppy fish. A recent trial study in select villages in Cambodia and Laos found out dengue cases can be significantly reduced by putting the fish in water tanks and containers near the stagnant water areas where the insects thrive especially during the rainy season.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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NexThought Monday – Is Charity: Water the Expedia of Philanthropy?
Expedia doesn’t make planes. It doesn’t run planes and it doesn’t own planes. But it sends millions of people on trips every year. Charity: water doesn’t make, run or own wells. But thousands have been dug on its dime.
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- Agriculture
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Why ‘Cheaper’ Projects Boost Farmer Profits: USAID finds small sums can generate big returns in South Sudan
To examine the effects of USAID’s assistance in South Sudan’s agriculture sector since 2012, a team completed a cost-benefit analysis of the $26 million in USAID funds being spent annually there in support of the Feed the Future Initiative. Part of the analysis examined two different techniques for improving crop yields.
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- Agriculture
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Matt Damon Tries to Get Clean Water and Toilets for India’s Poor
Matt Damon finds it a challenge to get people to care about water. It’s why he was in India from Aug. 23 to 26 on a four-day tour. Not to promote his latest film Elysium, a sci-fi dystopia with a socialist underpinning, but to help the rural and urban poor in India get access to clean water and sanitation by investing in tube wells, hand pumps and toilets with proper drainage facilities.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- microfinance
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Good Ideas Meet Elbow Grease: Evidence Action committed to taking evidence-based programs and services to large scale
Evidence Action begins from the premise that achieving scale across sectors and contexts is a solvable challenge, and that it can lead to gains in expertise and experience. The private sector has demonstrated this to be the case.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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NexThought Monday – Back to the Future: Why micromilling could make a juicy impact investment
Solutions and innovation won’t come from established sources. It will take new models and entrants that will shift the agriculture sector. A new wave of entrepreneurial innovation needs to grip the food value chain as it has the technology sector.
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- Agriculture
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- impact investing
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