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Helping Coffee Farmers Turns Competitors into Colleagues: How big names in coffee are fighting hunger through enterprise
The Coffeelands Food Security Coalition is comprised of big names in coffee such as Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Starbucks, Counter Culture, Farmer Brothers, S&D Coffee, and Sustainable Harvest. They’re partnering to fight hunger and expand economic opportunities for coffee-producing families through its inaugural project, "Empowering Food Secure Communities."
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- Agriculture
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A Hyperrealistic Farmville To Train The World’s Farmers
Farm Defenders, a Gates Foundation-funded game that lets people use incredibly detailed data (down to soil conditions in specific villages) to help people learn agriculture techniques before they actually start planting.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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‘Future proofing’ the agriculture sector
Asian economies stand vulnerable to climate change. Some of the most significant impacts are expected to hit the agriculture sector.
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- Agriculture
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- South Asia
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From base of social pyramid, only way is up
Firms serving Africa's poorest paving way for mutual growth
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Microloans Aren’t Just for Businesses Anymore: Increasingly they’re helping the poor meet basic needs
A more universal and basic approach for microloans to assist the more than 3 billion people who live on less than $2.50 a day is providing small loans to break up payments for large purchases.
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- Agriculture
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- infrastructure
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Food prices squeezing poor people and driving social change by stealth
A new era of high and volatile food prices goes beyond affecting what people can afford to eat and is causing life-changing shifts in society, experts warn today.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- nutrition
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A Plan to Bring Sun-Powered Irrigation to Poor Farmers
A proposed system uses mirrors to increase the power of a solar panel and pump water to crops.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment
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NexThought Monday: How Africa’s prosperity can grow … from trees
if Africa hopes to sustain its impressive economic growth and reign in the impacts of climate change, the continent needs to leverage agroforestry’s dual economic and environmental benefits on a larger scale. Attendees of the World Economic Forum on Africa this past week know that the continent’s economic success depends on private sector participation. But corporations also have a major role to play in boosting the continent’s economy and solving the world’s forestry woes through the field of agroforestry.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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