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UN: Soaring Demands Will Add More Stress to World Water Supplies
Despite recent good news that millions more people now have access to potable water, a new report finds sharply rising demands for water threaten a myriad of development goals.
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Enterprise Sets Up Service Centres for Livestock Farmers
A social enterprise has opened 16 livestock service centres to help farmers improve production through better extension services.
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- Agriculture
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Roundup: Of Good News and Water Pipe Dreams
In the same week that world cheered for reaching the Millenium Development Goal for drinking water, Water for People released a new report: Private Sector Provisions of Rural Water Services. The study assesses both the “prominence and potential” of market-based approaches for clean drinking water distribution.
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Using Microfinance to Bring Clean Water to India’s Poor
A unique public-private partnership involving private sector giants like Unilever and Heinz is improving the health of Indian children. Two hours outside India's tech hub Bangalore is Krishnagiri the Integrated Village Development Project (IVDP) is using interest-free microfinance loans to increase access to products people could not afford on their own.
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UN Meets Millennium Development Goal on Drinking Water
The Millennium Development Goal for access to clean water has been reached, ahead of the target date of 2015.
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- Agriculture, Impact Assessment
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NexThought Monday: Combining Commercial Opportunity With Environmental Sustainability
The greatest potential for productivity gains lies in the millions of small-scale farms in Africa, Latin America and Asia. But as the pressure grows to produce more food, unsustainable practices like slash-and-burn agriculture and excessive tilling of cropland threaten ecosystems and contribute to climate change.
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Opinion: Bill Gates’ Support of GM Crops is Wrong Approach for Africa
Bill Gates' support of genetically modified (GM) crops as a solution for world hunger is of concern to those of us involved in promoting sustainable, equitable and effective agricultural policies in Africa. There are two primary shortcomings to Gates' approach.
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Bill Gates to UN: Find new ways to help poor farmers; announces $200 million in grants
ROME — Current approaches to global agriculture are outdated, inefficient and don’t give small farmers in poor countries the help they really need, Bill Gates told U.N. food agencies Thursday as he announced nearly $200 million in grants. The Microsoft founder brought his campaign to fight poverty and hunger in Africa and Asia to a forum of the U.N. International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), one of three Rome-based U.N. food agencies.Much of some $2 billion spent over the past five years to fight poverty and hunger in Africa and Asia by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has gone toward improving agricultural productivity.
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