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Shell Foundation, Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship, and Amazon India Announces New Programme to Empower Women Micro Entrepreneurs through Market Connect and Clean Energy Access
his collaboration addresses these challenges by connecting women-led businesses to new customers through Amazon’s Saheli program, which offers lower selling fees and specialized support, including account management and training.
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- Agriculture, Education, Social Enterprise
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: IFC and Standard Chartered Partner on Supply Chain Finance to Support African Businesses
The risk-sharing facility will cover up to $300 million in supply chain and trade finance assets originated by Standard Chartered in Africa.
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- Agriculture, Finance, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Women Farmers Remain the Missing Link in India’s Digital Agriculture Push
Indian agriculture is intricately connected with gender, caste, patriarchy and entrenched power relations; without accounting for these, digital agriculture will be insufficient to transform rural livelihoods in real terms.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Joint Press Release: EU and Partners Sign the Global Green Bond Initiative Fund to Mobilise up to €20 Billion in Investments for Sustainable Infrastructure
At least 20% of investments will target the world's least developed countries, with support for bonds in both local currency and euro.
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- Agriculture, Environment
- Region
- Global
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Efishery Founder Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison
An Indonesian court has sentenced eFishery founder Gibran Huzaifah to nine years in prison over a fraud scandal that exposed inflated financial reporting and shook Southeast Asia’s startup investment market.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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- agtech, regulations, startups, venture capital
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Africa’s Firms are Not Growing—New Data Reveal a Jobs Challenge
Across 48 Sub-Saharan African economies, a firm that has operated for nearly three decades employs barely twice the workers it had at birth. The gap relative to high-income economies is large, structural, and costly.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Finance, Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology, Telecommunications, Transportation, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bayer Foundation and UNCDF Announce Inaugural Investments of the Food Systems Innovation Finance Facility in Agri-Businesses Omia and SokoFresh
As concessional resources contract, the need to mobilize additional capital into high-impact sectors such as food systems has become increasingly urgent.
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- Agriculture, Investing
- Region
- Global
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Viewpoint: Impact Investing’s New Discipline
Impact investors are not asking for less impact — they are asking for more discipline. Drawing on conversations with investors across Miller Center’s network, Brigit Helms explores why execution, unit economics, additionality, and impact-revenue alignment are becoming central to the next phase of social enterprise finance.
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- Agriculture, Social Enterprise
- Region
- Global
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