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One Acre Fund Helps Africa’s Small Farmers Keep in Their Fields
The One Acre Fund provides access to microloans, training, insurance, and other hard-to-get help that boosts farmers' incomes and curbs flight from farms into cities.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- microfinance
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Facebook-style Microcredit Site Helps China Farmers
BEIJING: Dairy farmer Deligeerma needs 642 to buy fodder for her cows during the harsh winter months in northern China. So far, she has received 149 in pledges from four people around the world.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Finding the Line Between Technical and Political Solutions to Water Challenges
Technology can increase access to water and sanitation; other solutions seem to hinge on policy. But are the two areas distinct?
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- Agriculture, Environment, Technology
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- Europe & Eurasia
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UN: Soaring Demands Will Add More Stress to World Water Supplies
Despite recent good news that millions more people now have access to potable water, a new report finds sharply rising demands for water threaten a myriad of development goals.
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- Agriculture
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- scale
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Organic Farming Promises to Yield a Sustainable Future for India’s Rural Poor
Organic agricultural practices are improving prospects for India's farmers by providing greater profit and sustainability
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- Agriculture
- Region
- South Asia
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Enterprise Sets Up Service Centres for Livestock Farmers
A social enterprise has opened 16 livestock service centres to help farmers improve production through better extension services.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Using Microfinance to Bring Clean Water to India’s Poor
A unique public-private partnership involving private sector giants like Unilever and Heinz is improving the health of Indian children. Two hours outside India's tech hub Bangalore is Krishnagiri the Integrated Village Development Project (IVDP) is using interest-free microfinance loans to increase access to products people could not afford on their own.
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- Agriculture
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- South Asia
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UN Meets Millennium Development Goal on Drinking Water
The Millennium Development Goal for access to clean water has been reached, ahead of the target date of 2015.
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- Agriculture, Impact Assessment