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Bill Gates’ Plan to Help the Developing World Profit From Its Sewage
Bill Gates walks up to the water tap, but before he can drink, his entourage pulls him to one side. One woman takes off his glasses and rearranges his hair. Another dabs on a little makeup. And, at one point, someone hands him a Mason jar.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Bolivian Women Bank on Sweet Success of Quinoa Bars
Women in a Bolivian cooperative hope to boost income by adding value to their quinoa crop through making chocolate-coated energy bars.
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- Agriculture
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- Latin America
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How Companies and NGOs Can Work Together to Tackle Food Security
While the year of agriculture and nutrition, as declared by the African Union, may be over, those issues will undoubtedly remain top development priorities and can present unique opportunities for collaboration with business.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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How Gravity (And a Little Coagulant) Could Transform How Communities Clean Water
Purifying water is a problem as old as civilization. When people started living together in anything bigger than traveling bands of shepherds and hunters, potable water became a shrinking resource. The rotating belt of local oases or springs could satisfy you while you were constantly on the move but once you started needing the communal watering hole to keep your animals upright or your crops alive, cooperation became more tenuous and waterborne diseases became sundry. Getting sick from your drinking water was the tradeoff for settling down, and we’ve been repaying the debt ever since.
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- Agriculture
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- Latin America
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Why Mobile Wallets Will Be Offered to 120,000 Zambian Farmers
MTN Chief Sales and Distribution Officer Amos Jere told journalists at the Zambia Agriculture Show that MTN Zambia plans to work with 120,000 farmers in the next farming season through the Ericsson Wallet Platform. Quoted by the Lusaka Times, he said that the company is in the process of rolling out our mobile money platform to integrate MTN Mobile Money with all banks in the country and added that some 4,000 subsistence farmers in the country have already been successfully paid through the platform for their cotton sales in Eastern Province.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A Magic Wand for Nutrition and Incomes in Mozambique?
Smallholder farmers in Mozambique are growing nutritious and lucrative varieties of orange-fleshed sweet potato.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Insurance for Ethiopian Herders Aims to Combat Drought, Conflict
Nomadic livestock herders in Ethiopia have received their first payout from an insurance scheme that tracks poor pasture conditions with satellite technology.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A New Milk Can for The Developing World, Funded by Bill Gates
When you buy milk in America, it generally comes from farmers with hundreds of cows. They do their own milking with mechanized equipment, and, generally, their own pasteurization and bottling. In Kenya, it's different. About 80% of the country's milk comes from small-scale farmers with a few cows, who milk by-hand. They don't do bottling and, instead of trucks to get to market, they go by bike or foot.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa