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UN FAO calls for sustained investment in global agriculture
Excessive corruption, poor infrastructure and scarce government resources were deterring investment in agriculture and contributing to high levels of malnourishment around the world, said an FAO report released Thursday.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Weekly Roundup: Big Deals, Big Reports and the Bono Bump
Bamboo Finance and Accion Investments in Microfinance, SPC this announced what they called a “landmark” transaction for the impact investment industry. And based on what I’ve read this week, it’s hard not to see it any other way. Private equity firm Bamboo Finance will take a controlling stake in Accion’s for-profit equity fund, which for nearly 10 years has provided capital to microfinance institutions.
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- Agriculture
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Carlyle Group to Make Africa Investment
Private-Equity Firm Is Latest to Follow Rush Into Continent With Sub-Saharan Fund; 'We're Here for the Long Haul'
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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LINKing Smallholders : A guide on inclusive business models
The Linking Farmers to Markets programme is one of the six thematic areas of the Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) research programme at the International Center of Tropical Agriculture’s (CIAT). Since 2007 it has conducted action research on inclusive business models, which has been distilled in a participatory guide to Business Models that link smallholders to markets. The LINK Methodology aims to foster inclusive trading relationships between farmer organisations and formal markets.
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- Agriculture
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Women Mean Business: During Global Entrepreneurship Week, Supporting Enterprising Women
In the second phase of the Women Mean Business program, TechnoServe is working to understand how to provide support to women business leaders in most efficient and effective way. In partnership with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), TechnoServe is comparing the impact of two approaches to business training — a “light touch” approach consisting of only classroom training, and an in-depth approach.
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- Agriculture
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Italians, Israelis aim to fight hunger in Senegal
Trilateral agricultural development project seeks to eradicate hunger by providing farmers with technological know-how.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Paradox of Property Rights and Economic Development
Recent weeks have seen simmering property rights conflicts around the world: Burmese citizens marching in protest against the government’s seizure of their lands for a hotel zone; Vietnamese villagers contesting the confiscation of their land for an EcoPark satellite city project; and violent clashes breaking out in Panama City over a controversial law allowing the sale of state-owned land in the port city of Colón—Latin America’s largest duty-free zone.
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- Agriculture
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A Growing Lifeline: Mobile Technologies in Agricultural Development
For farmers, mobile devices can deliver services that help them improve their production, such as weather information and technical advice. For buyers, data delivered via mobile can increase their insight into volumes harvested and processed by farmers and their organizations during the cycle.
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- Agriculture, Technology, Telecommunications
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