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Viewpoint: India Can’t Have True Reform in Agriculture If We Keep Hitching It to Rural Development
By glossing agriculture as aspirational, one only reinforces the view that agriculture is some sort of residue, a stalled structural transformation, a subsistence industry, or a buffer stock for food grains. But agricultural commodity markets have always been at the very heart of development.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- South Asia
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GAIN and Incofin Investment Management Announce New Collaboration to Unlock the Potential of SMEs to Improve Diets and Nutrition in Africa
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and Incofin Investment Management (Incofin IM) have announced a new collaboration to take forward and manage the newly established Nutritious Food Financing Facility (N3F).
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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WEST AFRICA: Germany Will Finance Agro-Ecology to the Tune of €16 million
The German international development cooperation agency (GIZ) announced a €16 million grant for the promotion of sustainable agriculture techniques in West Africa over the next five years.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Booster Teams to Breach the Rural Frontier of Digital Financial Services (DFS) in Uganda
In the context of rural digital finance, the concept of a “booster team” is a dedicated team that supports one or several organizations to distribute their products and services to the last mile population.
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- Agriculture, Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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China Looks to Robots, Big Data to Drive Agriculture Forward
The “Digital Agriculture and Rural Area Development Plan 2019-2025” acknowledges (in Chinese) that data resources are scattered and coverage rates remain low. But top Party agencies are serious about the digitalizing the countryside and building 5G networks in these areas.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- agtech, rural development
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Liberia’s Miracle Oil Brings Farmers Only Empty Promises
“We embraced the company because we wanted development,” he says, remembering the promises of schools and clinics if local people gave up land. “We were expecting education for our children, employment, healthcare.”
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: To Achieve the SDGs in a Warming Climate We Will Have to Change How We Produce Our Food
Although we are seeing the emergence of underground farms and giant high-tech, temperature-controlled greenhouses, the vast bulk of the world’s food production is grown under the sun and therefore exposed not just to warming temperatures but also the disease, pests, floods and drought that those warming temperatures can cause.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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USAID, Awash Bank To Help Small Agribusinesses In Ethiopia
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Awash Bank announced a new partnership that provides $6.4 million to microfinance institutions and small- and medium-sized agricultural businesses in Ethiopia.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- microfinance