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Report: Bringing Regenerative Agriculture to Africa: Kenyan Farmers Are Enthusiastic but Need Better Packaged Info
Enviu just released a report detailing the results of a survey it conducted with 50 Kenya farmers to get their take on Regenerative Agriculture.
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- Agriculture, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Adani Firms Dropped From UN-Backed List Of Green Firms In Latest Blow
Three of Adani Group’s publicly traded companies have been removed from an influential list of companies committed to acting against climate change.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
- Tags
- climate change, ESG, failure
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Accelerating Systems Change: An Innovative Accelerator Shows How Funders Can Amplify Social Enterprises’ Impact by Transforming Their Funding Model
There’s a growing belief that lasting solutions to today's complex challenges will require fundamental changes to the systems that underlie these issues. According to Celia Sanchez-Valladares Barahona, Stella Printezi and Lucía Tornero at Ashoka, social entrepreneurs are well-placed to accelerate systems change, but the funding models they rely on may end up prolonging the issues they're trying to solve. They explain how funders can transform these increasingly outdated models to better support long-term, systemic change, as illustrated by an accelerator co-created by Ashoka and IKEA Social Entrepreneurship.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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HOMA2U Raises $875K in Pre-series a Funding to Fuel Regional Expansion
HOMA2U plans to use the funds to accelerate its regional expansion, develop new products, and expand its market capitalisation value.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
- Tags
- accelerators, ESG, startups
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Press Release: World Bank Group Launches Business Ready Project
The World Bank Group has begun work to assess the business and investment climate in up to 180 economies under its flagship Business Ready project.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
- Region
- Global
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Nigerian Fintech Startup Storspay Raises $320K, Selected for Techstars NYC
Storspay has developed a decentralised retail lending infrastructure platform for the internet.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Capria Announces First Close of its USD 100 Million Global South Fund II
The new fund will focus on investing in 20-25 tech startups in the entrepreneurial hotspots of India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Global
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African Development Bank Secures $350 Million Loan Deal from Japan International Cooperation Agency to Boost its Support for Private Sector Operations in Africa
The loan comes under the Enhanced Private Sector Assistance (EPSA) initiative, which is a component of Japan’s Official Development Assistance to Africa.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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