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Seeking Scalable Solutions to Promote Nutrient-Rich Food: Insights from young innovators in Ashoka Changemakers’ Nutrients for All idea exchange
To have widespread, affordable access to nutrient-rich food, we need to work with the food industry, and take advantage of advances in science and technology. But how can this work in practice? Ashoka Changemakers and Thought for Food hosted an idea exchange with several young innovators, who discussed their work and the challenges of making nutritious food widely available.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Tractors for Hire: Developing a new business in post-conflict Northern Uganda
In northern Uganda, 20 years of violent conflict forced hundreds of thousands of farmers to wait in aid camps, leaving the land fallow and an agriculturally-based economy destroyed. Now, with the closure of the camps and a growing peace, farmers are building back and reinvesting in the land. But a lack of tractors could keep the region hungry.
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- Agriculture
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Food Fortification in the Midst of Political Turmoil: Can a functioning “nutrient economy” become part of the solution in Egypt?
Political turmoil can dictate the amount and quality of nutrients accessible to everyday people. And coverage of the Arab Spring has brought to light the dire circumstances still faced by many in the Middle East and North Africa. In Egypt, where do nutrients come into the conversation for the country moving forward? Can a functioning “nutrient economy” become part of the solution?
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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TechnoServe and Nespresso partner to build a more sustainable coffee industry in East Africa
TechnoServe and Nespresso are launching a partnership in East Africa to improve the livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers while creating a more sustainable source of supply for Nespresso.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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To Help the World’s Poor, Give Them Real Jobs
The latest U.S. jobs numbers showed a U.S. unemployment rate still at 7.6 percent. The official global unemployment rate, compiled by the International Labor Organization (ILO), is around 6 percent—which suggests American workers are worse off than their counterparts worldwide. But that statistic is deeply misleading. Unemployment is, by and large, a luxury of rich countries. Billions of people across the world are stuck working long hours in subsistence farming, hawking, or other informal occupations, desperate for a job that provides a weekly wage packet.
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- Agriculture
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Ghana Rising: Inaugural TEDxOsu forum looks at human rights, enterprise a decade on
We launched the first TEDxOsu event on June 1 in Accra. Our goal was to discuss pressing issues faced by Ghana, to shed light on the opportunities and potential that its people possess, and to collectively envision the country’s future in the next 10 years.
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- Agriculture
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Poverty alleviation: Villagers thrive by using alternative energy
Farmers in Ahmadwala, a village some 40 kilometres to the west of Lahore, are no longer worried about power outages affecting their livelihoods.
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- Agriculture, Energy
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- South Asia
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Corporate Aid or Colonialism?: The G8’s New Alliance sparks debate over big businesses’ role in fighting poverty
The New Alliance, started by the G8 last year, has the ambitious goal of lifting 50 million people out of poverty. It has mobilized billions of dollars in private sector investment in African agriculture. But that investment comes with a few strings attached.
Is it a worthy effort to strengthen weak value chains, or a profit grab that marginalizes smallholder farmers?- Categories
- Agriculture
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