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Golden Rice: Lifesaver?
One bright morning this month, 400 protesters smashed down the high fences surrounding a field in the Bicol region of the Philippines and uprooted the genetically modified rice plants growing inside.Had the plants survived long enough to flower, they would have betrayed a distinctly yellow tint in the otherwise white part of the grain. That is because the rice is endowed with a gene from corn and another from a bacterium, making it the only variety in existence to produce beta carotene, the source of vitamin A. Its developers call it “Golden Rice.”
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- Asia Pacific
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- nutrition
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Innovations for Poverty Action Announces Launch of Evidence Action to Bring Evidence-Based Solutions to Scale
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is pleased to announce the launch of a new organization created with IPA’s support and dedicated to taking cost-effective programs to scale to improve the lives of millions in Africa and Asia. Evidence Action has been created to bridge the gap between evidence about what works to alleviate poverty around the world and what is actually implemented.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Smart cards that top-up health
Most of Kenya’s population can’t afford the crippling expenses if they fall seriously ill. But help is at their fingertips via their mobile phones.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Lauren Bush Lauren: Social Enterprise Is Her Bag
The founder of FEED explains how she turned a simple burlap bag into a powerful tool for fighting world hunger.
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How Meals at School Help the Kyrgyzstan Economy: 12 years after launching Food For Education, Mercy Corps looks back
The reality is that a school meal may be the only meal a child receives in a day, and it can make the difference between future success and a lifelong struggle with poverty.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- nutrition
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Visionary – The Q&A: Dr Geoff Tabin and Dr Sanduk Ruit
The world has around 40m blind people, around 90% of them in the developing world. Much of this blindness treatable.
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- Health Care
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Counterfeit medicine trade targets Africa’s poor
"Street medication kills. The street is killing (safe) medication," declares a banner outside a pharmacy in the Cameroonian capital Yaounde, where the dangerous trade is rampant.
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- Asia Pacific
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Niger and Global Fund sign €13.5 Million malaria grant
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has signed a 13.5 million euro grant agreement that will intensify efforts to provide families with mosquito nets and improve the diagnosis and treatment of malaria in Niger.
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- Health Care
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- public health