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Shaping a Market for Nutrient Economies – Part 2: The value of partnerships
As we’ve seen in Ashoka Changemakers’ Nutrients for All campaign, there are several markets involved in bringing nutrient products to consumers. Interventions in these different markets can have a major impact, starting at the earliest stages in a product’s development, and they often involve multiple partners. This post, the second in a two-part series, shows how these interventions work in practice.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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World food security and what young Africans can do about it
Leaders in sub-Saharan Africa, a region with the world’s fastest-growing and youngest population, seek to create more agriculture jobs.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Water for all
NEARLY three-fourths of all diseases caused in India are due to water contaminants. Despite that, one in eight Indians still lacks access to clean drinking water.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Announcing Ashoka Changemakers’ “Health Ideas” Week: A week-long discussion of nutrition’s impact on health
In health and wellness, everything is connected, from the soil that yields a staple crop to the policies of national governments. Global access to health is a critical need of our time, and it requires game-changing ideas from everyone from farmers to businesses. That’s why Ashoka Changemakers is hosting “Health Ideas” week on NextBillion Health Care, showcasing new opportunities and ideas that target global health from the perspectives of business, innovation and nutrition.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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Gums, Not Guns: How Mali entrepreneurs are offering a path to peace
In Mali’s southern villages, gums, not guns, are proliferating. These natural gums are being harvested from trees that grow wild across the African Sahel, and exported to Europe to meet rising demand for their use in products from pharmaceuticals to cosmetics to baked goods. In 2010 Root Capital is offered financing to gum producer Produits du Sud to secure contracts with international buyers and expand its reach from 30 farmers spread across five villages to 2,000 farmers in 200 villages in 2012.
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- Agriculture
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Uganda: Invest in Agriculture – World Bank
The World Bank has said that investing in agribusiness could be one of the landmark solutions to the slow pace of Africa's economic development.
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- Agriculture
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- impact investing
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NexThought Monday – Nutrients for All: Thriving ecosystems for productive, resilient food systems
Natural ecosystems ensure that vital nutrients flow from soils to food to people. Thriving ecosystems are the bedrock of healthy nutrient chains, the basis of all life on the planet. But human activity like unsustainable agricultural practices is threatening ecosystems around the world. Escalating stress on ecosystems increases the impact of climate change, and limits the availability of nutrient-enabling resources like water, topsoil and biodiversity. But though the issues are dire, there are solutions.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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A STRYDE Forward for Youth: Creating opportunities in rural East Africa
Africa will add 122 million people to its labor force between 2010 and 2020. The Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise (STRYDE) program, a partnership between TechnoServe and The MasterCard Foundation, provides training, mentoring and building self esteem for young workers entering a difficult economy.
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- Agriculture, Education
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