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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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USAID and P&G Kick Off Global Development Alliance to Improve Health in Myanmar
Administrator Rajiv Shah yesterday helped deliver the first liter of clean drinking water under the Global Development Alliance (GDA) between the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and Procter & Gamble (P&G) to improve health in India.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Harvested rainwater in South Africa harbors pathogens, finds new study
According to research from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, pathogens are inhabiting harvested rainwater across the region, potentially posing a public health hazard, especially for children and immunocompromised individuals.
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- Agriculture, Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Harvested rainwater in South Africa harbors pathogens, finds new study
According to research from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, pathogens are inhabiting harvested rainwater across the region, potentially posing a public health hazard, especially for children and immunocompromised individuals. Likewise, South Africa has been financing domestic rainwater harvesting tanks in informal low-income settlements and rural areas in five of the nation's nine provinces.
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- Agriculture, Education, Health Care
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Tasting the Fruits of One’s Labor (For the First Time): Highlights from ‘Lets Talk Coffee Rwanda’
Let’s Talk Coffee is an event series organized by coffee importer Sustainable Harvest to demonstrate Relationship Coffee - an inclusive business model that stresses transparency between all links of the supply chain. Last week’s Let’s Talk Coffee Rwanda coincided with the launch of Sustainable Harvest’s nonprofit entity, the Relationship Coffee Institute.
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- Agriculture
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Health concerns and rising prosperity drive packaged water market in Africa
Health concerns towards the lack of safe drinking water across many African countries, combined with rising consumer incomes, has driven the packaged water market in the region to grow faster than that of Europe and the US.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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