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This Simple Mobile Layaway Plan For Poor Farmers Just Won $1.25 Million
The Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship honored MyAgro, which helps developing world farmers save enough to reinvest in their farms–along with companies working on making solar panels cheaper, making reporting sexual assault easier, and more.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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We know how food production needs to change if crisis is to be avoided—so why isn’t this happening?
With the global population to reach 9 billion in decades, global food systems must change in order to feed the planet. Is agroecology the solution?
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- food security, SDGs
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Agriculture in Africa faces the great challenge of exporting
Africa relies more and more on exporting its commodities, and agricultural products for more than half of its countries.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- global development, SDGs
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We’re Undervaluing Value Addition: How Ag Processing Will Fortify Food Security, Incomes and Development
The world's cocoa farmers get only 3 percent of the value of a chocolate bar, and Africa, home to 60 percent of the world’s arable land, is a net importer of food that could be processed at lower cost on the continent. The problem is that agriculture producers in emerging markets grow the crops only to watch as others grab the profits. The solution, says Donna Rosa, is to improve the solid food processing industries in developing countries.
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- Agriculture, Social Enterprise
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India’s agritech startups are employing data mining and AI to improve crop yield, make farming profitable
Agritech startups seem to be having their moment in the sun. There are many startups like SatSure that are disrupting the Indian agricultural economy in unexpected ways. Intello Labs, for example, uses image-recognition software to monitor crops and predict the health of farm yields.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- South Asia
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Kenyan agri-tech startup Taimba wins $10k at SXSW
Kenyan startup Taimba, which connects farmers to retailers, was one of three winners of the 2018 Food+City Challenge Prize at the recent SXSW event, taking home US$10,000 in prize money.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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After Years Of Violence, Chef Offers Colombian Farmers Pride And Profit
A Colombian chef turned social entrepreneur, Leonor Espinosa has made it her mission to revive traditional agriculture, ancestral foodways and culinary know-how among rural, mainly indigenous and Afro-Colombian people.
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- Agriculture
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- Latin America
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Press release: Impact Terra secures nearly USD 3.0 million to digitize smallholder farming
Impact Terra, the Myanmar based agriculture and fintech social enterprise, today announced that it has secured nearly USD 3.0 million in funding to lead the digitization of smallholder farming. Its support includes a grant from the Geodata for Agriculture and Water (‘G4AW’) facility and a grant from venture philanthropy organization Leap201.
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- Press release
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- Agriculture, Finance
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- Asia Pacific