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Mastercard Strive India Launches to Help Small Businesses Go Digital
Payments giant Mastercard has launched the Mastercard Strive India programme, which aims to help 500,000 small businesses in India go digital by 2025.
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- Agriculture, Finance, Technology
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- Global
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€73 Million for Electrification and Sustainable Agriculture in Madagascar
TalakyBe will be implemented in 25 rural councils in the Anosy region in south-east Madagascar.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- agtech, forests, renewable energy, solar
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Philippines’ Bank of Philippines Island’s Green Bond Gets $250 Million Investment from International Finance Corporation
The Philippines' third largest bank issues a green bond to finance renewable energy and electric vehicles in the IFC’s biggest deal with a financial institution in the country yet.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Investing, Transportation
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- South Asia
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India’s Rice Export Ban to Hurt Millions Globally. These Countries Will Be the Worst Hit
The government is seeking to tame surging domestic food prices and “ensure adequate domestic availability at reasonable prices.”
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: UK Sets Out Support to Make Nigeria’s Agriculture Sector More Climate- Resilient
The support will help transform Nigeria's rural economy and support the adoption and scaling up of sustainable agricultural practices.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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ZoomAgri Secures $6 Million in Series A round
The company provides machine learning-based industrial equipment to determine the variety and quality of crops in agribusiness.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Global
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- agtech
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Unlocking Data-Driven Policymaking: A Digitalisation Programme in Rwanda Shows the Impact of Improved Storage on Agriculture Prices — And the Value of Digital Data
Transporting produce in Rwanda is difficult, and the country’s storage infrastructure is limited. To better understand these challenges and their potential solutions, Cenfri has been analysing the country’s agriculture sector as part of its efforts to support digitalisation and data-led decision-making in government. Olivia Rutayisire and Pieter Janse van Vuuren at Cenfri share insights from this work, exploring how digital data can impact government initiatives that aim to support farmers and optimise agricultural markets.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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Coca Price Crash Contributing to Colombia Food Insecurity, UN Says
Some 400,000 families nationwide rely on income connected to coca cultivation, the presentation said, adding coca markets have been paralyzed in Colombian provinces.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- food security
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