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Micro Co-Ops for Macro Markets: Land O’Lakes finds success with dairy farmers in Malawi
The five-year program by Land O’Lakes, supported by a grant from USAID, set up or expanded 23 milk bulking groups across the country. The result? Farmers’ incomes were boosted, and they got access to productivity-enhancing inputs, insurance coverage, technical training and community prestige.
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- Agriculture
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Why Toilets, Not Cell Phones, Are Key To Education Around The World
John Kluge says things many people want to say, but don’t because they think it’s taboo. Kluge is out to change that.
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- Agriculture, Education, Health Care
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From the Field : Improving Industries in Mozambique
A business can improve a community. But having a real impact on the lives of significant numbers of families requires change at the industry level. Last month, my colleagues on the TechnoServe board of directors and I had the privilege to witness the effects of this type of change in Mozambique, where more than half of the country’s 23.5 million people live below the poverty line.
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- Agriculture
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JP Morgan-linked firm triples cash in Africert deal
A JP Morgan-linked private equity firm, Pearl Capital Partners (PCP), has exited its investment in a Kenyan agricultural firm in a deal that saw it triple its investment in six years.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Delhi Dispatch: Rice, Wheat, and Water Serve Up Equal Helpings of Punjab’s Wealth and Risk
NARAINGARH, Haryana, India — The first rain in six months, and a stout and cold wind whipped at the black plastic covering stacks of grain Thursday morning at the Shivshakti Rice Mill, one of 13 mills surrounding this roadside village about 70 kilometers west of Chandigarh.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- nutrition
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Runa Wins WWF Switzerland Tropical Forest Challenge : The social enterprise has a taste tea and conservation
A global initiative, the WWF Switzerland Tropical Forest Challenge sought the best for-profit solutions around the world addressing the conservation of tropical forest biodiversity. The challenge generated 306 nominations, and 74 applications from Latin America, Africa, South East Asia and beyond.
Runa was selected as the winner in the company category for their inspiring work promoting sustainable tropical forest conservation in the Ecuadorian Amazon through guayusa tea.- Categories
- Agriculture
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Waiting for the Mangoes to Ripen : Access to credit frees Haitian farmers to sell and invest on their own terms
The Haiti Hope Project is a partnership to help 25,000 farmers double their fruit income by ensuring greater value for their high-quality native mangoes. Haiti Hope brings together public and private partners, including USAID, The Coca-Cola Company; the Multilateral Investment Fund, a member of the Inter-American Development Bank Group; and TechnoServe.
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- Agriculture
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Ban joins Hispaniola effort against cholera
Ban Ki-moon has announced a new initiative that will support a 10-year effort against cholera in Haiti. This comes amid mounting calls for the United Nations to take responsibility over the spread of the disease in the country.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
- Region
- Latin America
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- public health
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