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Special Series (Part 2): BPO for the BoP – The need for (and promise of) Impact Sourcing
In part one of this series, we defined Impact Sourcing and some of the factors accelerating its growth. Now, let’s look a little deeper into the two key trends driving interest in the space and whether these can be married through Impact Sourcing in a manner that drives benefit for both the BPO industry, as well as poor and vulnerable communities in emerging economies.
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- Agriculture, Education, Impact Assessment, Technology
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The unpalatable truth about quinoa
Ethical consumers should be aware poor Bolivians can no longer afford their staple grain, due to western demand raising prices.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Latin America
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- nutrition, public health
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Mozambique : Is impact investment the answer for agribusiness?
Foreign investments in Mozambique face an incredibly challenging business environment. Impact investors are filling in the capital gap that exists in developing countries such as Mozambique by providing early and mid stage growth capital to companies with a good track record, often without need for collateral and at risk adjusted rates compared to those available on the local market.
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- Agriculture
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Nigeria, USAID Sign $3 Billion Agricultural Financing Deal
Nigeria has signed a $3 billion agriculture financing deal with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to empower its agricultural sector.
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- Agriculture
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An inconvenient truth
LAST year, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates gave $US10 million to British scientists to crack a problem he hoped might help solve the looming world food crisis. Unusually, this time the philanthropy of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was met with howls of outrage from left-leaning politicians and environmental groups that previously had welcomed its efforts to eradicate malaria and alleviate global poverty and hunger.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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IFC, GAFSP Invest $10 million in Root Capital to Support Small Farmers in Africa, Latin America
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the private sector window of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) will invest $5 million each in Root Capital to help expand access to working capital and markets for 300,000 farmers over the next four years.
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- Agriculture
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Q&A: Developing Entrepreneurship in Tibetan Settlements in India
Sambuddha Bhattacharya joined TechnoServe India as a Volunteer Consultant in April 2012. He has advised several leading Indian companies at KPMG Advisory and served as Strategy Consultant at India’s largest law firm, Amarchand Mangaldas. An entrepreneur himself, Sambuddha recently co-founded skillhippo.com, an online skills marketplace.
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- Agriculture
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Students develop low-cost water filtering system for African nation
In an effort to bring fresh water to rural Kenyans, School of International Affairs (SIA) students Kory Hansen and Jin Ju Kim participated in Penn State's Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) program to develop a ceramic water filtration system for parts of the sub Saharan African nation.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- product design
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