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Ag Stigma Be Damned: Flipping the Script for Young People, Farming and Investment
Smallholder farmers are getting older – the average age of a coffee farmer is 60 – and fewer and fewer young people are replacing them. This problem isn’t new. But it’s becoming more and more urgent. Will McAneny at Root Capital writes about several agricultural businesses that are flipping the script by asking: What if opportunity flourished on the farm?
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- Agriculture, Education, Entrepreneurship, Investing
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Register Now for SEEP’s Conference Before Prices Go Up Saturday
The 2017 SEEP Network Annual Conference will bring together leading practitioners, funders, research organizations and private sector actors dedicated to promoting more inclusive and resilient markets and financial systems Oct. 2-4 in Arlington, Va. The conference will feature 25 peer learning sessions in four technical tracks, two plenary sessions and five SEEP Fail Fest sessions.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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Dao Ventures Launches 2017 US-China Impact Venture Contest
Dao Ventures, a US-China impact investing consortium, has launched its 3rd annual US-China Entrepreneurship Competition that is considered the only impact-oriented venture contest across the Pacific. Dozens of U.S. and international impact ventures have received support from Dao Ventures over the past years via the Competition.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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No Internet? No Problem: Turning a Feature Phone Into a Digital Library Can Transform Lives
The cycle of poverty in developing countries is real and often riddled with misinformation. That's why the 3-2-1 Service on simple feature phones – which functions like a search engine without the internet – is so important. And people are willing to pay for it. This not only changes how users engage with their phone but also how international development agencies can engage with users to improve livelihoods.
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- Education, Entrepreneurship, Technology
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Social Enterprises Are Starting To Suck Up All The Talent From Nonprofits
According to the report’s fine print, the number of organizations expecting to hire dropped 7% year-over-year, while it rose 4% among social enterprises in the private sector. And that changes the stakes of the hiring game a bit. It’s no longer nonprofit versus nonprofit.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- North America
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New act in Thailand to give social enterprises a big boost
Social Enterprises Act will propose that the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) set a target for the rest of this year and through 2018 to boost the number of social enterprises in the country.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- Asia Pacific
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Entrepreneurship and Millennials Are Thriving in Emerging Markets
Plenty of ink has been spilled on the root causes behind this troubling phenomenon, from high student debt to the rising costs of healthcare. Yet there is one part of the world where entrepreneurship is alive and well: emerging markets.
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- Entrepreneurship
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Cash, Trees, Honey and Bees: Enticing Ethiopia’s Farmers Toward Eco-Stewardship
In Ethiopia, use of herbicides as well as loss of habitat are causing a reduction in the local pollinator population, not unlike the global trend of pollinator decline that is threatening food security around the world. Julia Entwistle, a graduate student at the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability, details her summer internship with an organization trying to balance the interests of nature and farmers through profits.
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- Agriculture, Entrepreneurship
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