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Want Healthier Food? Pay Farmers to Manage Nutrient Flows: The movement toward “ecosystem services” compensation
Farmers have traditionally made their money by producing food. But the growing awareness of the relationship between healthy ecosystems and healthy foods is leading some to consider other forms of compensation. Farmers may be paid to control water flow or sequester carbon dioxide on their property, for example. As part of their Nutrients for All campaign, Ashoka Changemakers explores some of these emerging compensation approaches.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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What’s Next for Impact Investing – Facing Market Realities: Why the environment is the core of impact investing in China
When I first started China Impact Fund, I thought that impact investing in China should give equal weight to the country’s social and environmental issues, just as what my peers do in most other emerging markets. As I am relocating back to China, my thinking evolved toward environmental for several key reasons.
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- Environment, Investing
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- impact investing
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NexThought Monday – Nutrients for All: Thriving ecosystems for productive, resilient food systems
Natural ecosystems ensure that vital nutrients flow from soils to food to people. Thriving ecosystems are the bedrock of healthy nutrient chains, the basis of all life on the planet. But human activity like unsustainable agricultural practices is threatening ecosystems around the world. Escalating stress on ecosystems increases the impact of climate change, and limits the availability of nutrient-enabling resources like water, topsoil and biodiversity. But though the issues are dire, there are solutions.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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Off-Grid Electrification: A key to Myanmar’s promising growth
Throughout his promotion of the United Nation’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said several times that “energy is the golden thread that connects economic growth, social equity and environmental sustainability.”
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- Energy, Environment
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- renewable energy, solar
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A New Business Model for Farmers in the Nutrient Economy
You could argue that a more comprehensive, albeit wonky, word for farmer is “nutrient steward.” Unfortunately, most farmers are only compensated for their end products, like corn and cotton. In reality, however, farmers are stewarding the nutrient processes that result in these end products. So why shouldn’t they be compensated for these services?
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- Agriculture, Environment, Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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South Africa ‘needs coherent energy policy’
Sout Africa must create a coherent energy policy or it will continue to struggle to rely on power utility Eskom and millions of South Africans will remain in energy poverty, World Energy Council head Christoph Frei said on Tuesday.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy
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Inequality and accountability key to post-2015 development, report says
Save the Children outlines its proposals for the development agenda after the millennium development goals expire in 2015
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- Environment
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400 Million Reasons for Impact Investing in China : A first-of-its-kind study dispels misperceptions and reveals potential
"Creating the Chinese Dream," which to our knowledge, is the first English-language report on impact investing in China. What makes this report unique is that it serves as a practitioner’s guide to impact investing in China’s green SMEs.
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- Environment, Social Enterprise
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- impact investing
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