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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
- Agriculture, Technology
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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
- Agriculture
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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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Fish 2.0: A Competition That Connects Investors With Sustainable Seafood Businesses
A new breed of investors is starting to shape business growth across the globe.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- impact investing
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Insight: The poison pill in India’s search for cheap food
Nearly a decade ago, the Indian government ruled out a ban on the production and use of monocrotophos, the highly toxic pesticide that killed 23 children this month in a village school providing free lunches under a government-sponsored program
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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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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