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How Meals at School Help the Kyrgyzstan Economy: 12 years after launching Food For Education, Mercy Corps looks back
The reality is that a school meal may be the only meal a child receives in a day, and it can make the difference between future success and a lifelong struggle with poverty.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Incubating Aquaculture Businesses at the Base of the Pyramid
Successful projects, dwindling funds. What’s an innovative NGO to do?One answer: Build a deal pipeline for impact investors looking for investable ventures.WorldFish, a Malaysia-based spinoff of the the “green revolution” pioneer CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research), reached this crossroads in 2010.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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NexThought Monday – Want to Help a Bolivian Farmer?: Eat their quinoa
Andean farmers have enjoyed an economic bonanza from growing quinoa, a superfood beloved by foodies and vegetarians in the West. But the farmers’ success may prove their undoing, as farmers in the United States and Canada have begun growing the grain.
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SC Johnson and Partners Help Rwanda Pyrethrum Farmers Boost Incomes, Build Sustainable Supply
SC Johnson, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and The Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture announced the Rwanda Pyrethrum Program, a Global Development Alliance (GDA) public-private partnership designed to help Rwanda pyrethrum farmers boost incomes while creating an environmentally and economically sustainable raw materials source. The three-year extension of the initial 28-month program focuses on increasing both production and quality of pyrethrum and on strengthening and expanding the capacity of the cooperative organizations that the farmers rely on to market their crops.
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- Agriculture
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The Best of July 2013: NextBillion’s most-read, most-shared posts
July is supposed to be a slow time as a month of leisure. This July on NextBillion ... not so much.
There was no resting on laurels in July, at least among our regular contributors. How high-end high tech can find its way to the BoP, why mobile money is so far ahead of other sectors, and building a market for tractors in Uganda were the most read posts on NB last month.- Categories
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Weekly Roundup – 8/10/13: Kicking up working capital
Citi Commercial Bank did something it’s never done before: Make a loan to a social enterprise.
The $2 million loan isn’t a corporate social responsibly vehicle, nor is it a grant. This is a business deal, and one of noteworthy size. The recipient, KickStart International makes and sells human-powered pumps for rural farmers.- Categories
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Indian Farmers Hate Tomatoes: Why this social enterprise is helping them connect to larger customers
Because of high variability in prices and a lack of storage, Indian farmers sometimes prefer to trash the tomatoes than sell at low prices. Social enterprise Krishi Star is partnering with farmers to develop farmer-owned processing units, connecting them with the wider market.
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- Agriculture
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Re-imagining Farmers as Knowledge Entrepreneurs: Three thought leaders in agricultural innovation on how to reverse harmful trends in food production
Unsustainable agricultural practices and poor land management are threatening the world’s food supply. Marzena Zukowska at Ashoka Changemakers sat down with three thought leaders in environmental and agricultural innovation to explore how we can reverse current trends in food production.
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- Agriculture
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