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Press Release: Acceso, Formerly CGEP, Announces Its Transition Into a New, Independent Entity to Advance Its Work of Lifting Small Producers out of Poverty Through Market-Driven Social Enterprise
Acceso’s current focus remains building, managing, and scaling agribusinesses in Latin America and the Caribbean to sustainably lift farmers and fishers out of poverty, and identifying opportunities for future replication.
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Viewpoint: India Can’t Have True Reform in Agriculture If We Keep Hitching It to Rural Development
By glossing agriculture as aspirational, one only reinforces the view that agriculture is some sort of residue, a stalled structural transformation, a subsistence industry, or a buffer stock for food grains. But agricultural commodity markets have always been at the very heart of development.
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- Agriculture
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- South Asia
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GAIN and Incofin Investment Management Announce New Collaboration to Unlock the Potential of SMEs to Improve Diets and Nutrition in Africa
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and Incofin Investment Management (Incofin IM) have announced a new collaboration to take forward and manage the newly established Nutritious Food Financing Facility (N3F).
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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WEST AFRICA: Germany Will Finance Agro-Ecology to the Tune of €16 million
The German international development cooperation agency (GIZ) announced a €16 million grant for the promotion of sustainable agriculture techniques in West Africa over the next five years.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Full, Yet Undernourished? How India Can Move from Food Security to Nutrition Security
India now produces enough food for its population – but recurring famines plagued the country for decades. In response, the government strengthened the distribution system to bring essential food grains to marginalized households. But as analysts at MSC point out, improving access to food is not the same as ensuring optimal nutrition. They explore solutions that could help India move from food security to nutrition security – and how the private sector can play a role.
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- Agriculture
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Booster Teams to Breach the Rural Frontier of Digital Financial Services (DFS) in Uganda
In the context of rural digital finance, the concept of a “booster team” is a dedicated team that supports one or several organizations to distribute their products and services to the last mile population.
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- Agriculture, Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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China Looks to Robots, Big Data to Drive Agriculture Forward
The “Digital Agriculture and Rural Area Development Plan 2019-2025” acknowledges (in Chinese) that data resources are scattered and coverage rates remain low. But top Party agencies are serious about the digitalizing the countryside and building 5G networks in these areas.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- agtech, rural development
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Women Feeding Africa: Innovative Business Solutions to Close the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity
Women quite literally feed sub-Saharan Africa: They make up 50% of its agricultural labor force and contribute 60-80% of its food. Yet they also face unique constraints that limit their productivity and reduce their returns. What would happen if women could access the same productivity resources as men? Agnes Makena and Racheal Wangari at Intellecap explore that question, highlighting enterprises and initiatives with innovative solutions to support Africa’s female farmers.
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- Agriculture
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