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Nigeria, USAID Sign $3 Billion Agricultural Financing Deal
Nigeria has signed a $3 billion agriculture financing deal with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to empower its agricultural sector.
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- Agriculture
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An inconvenient truth
LAST year, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates gave $US10 million to British scientists to crack a problem he hoped might help solve the looming world food crisis. Unusually, this time the philanthropy of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was met with howls of outrage from left-leaning politicians and environmental groups that previously had welcomed its efforts to eradicate malaria and alleviate global poverty and hunger.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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IFC, GAFSP Invest $10 million in Root Capital to Support Small Farmers in Africa, Latin America
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the private sector window of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) will invest $5 million each in Root Capital to help expand access to working capital and markets for 300,000 farmers over the next four years.
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- Agriculture
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Students develop low-cost water filtering system for African nation
In an effort to bring fresh water to rural Kenyans, School of International Affairs (SIA) students Kory Hansen and Jin Ju Kim participated in Penn State's Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) program to develop a ceramic water filtration system for parts of the sub Saharan African nation.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- product design
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Why Toilets, Not Cell Phones, Are Key To Education Around The World
John Kluge says things many people want to say, but don’t because they think it’s taboo. Kluge is out to change that.
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- Agriculture, Education, Health Care
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JP Morgan-linked firm triples cash in Africert deal
A JP Morgan-linked private equity firm, Pearl Capital Partners (PCP), has exited its investment in a Kenyan agricultural firm in a deal that saw it triple its investment in six years.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Delhi Dispatch: Rice, Wheat, and Water Serve Up Equal Helpings of Punjab’s Wealth and Risk
NARAINGARH, Haryana, India — The first rain in six months, and a stout and cold wind whipped at the black plastic covering stacks of grain Thursday morning at the Shivshakti Rice Mill, one of 13 mills surrounding this roadside village about 70 kilometers west of Chandigarh.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- nutrition
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Ban joins Hispaniola effort against cholera
Ban Ki-moon has announced a new initiative that will support a 10-year effort against cholera in Haiti. This comes amid mounting calls for the United Nations to take responsibility over the spread of the disease in the country.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Latin America
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- public health