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Nigeria: UN, Brazil Sign U.S.$20 Million Pact to Help Farmers in Developing Countries
A $20 million agreement signed during the week by the United Nations and Brazil will seek to transfer the expertise of the South American country to support cotton farmers in developing economies.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Handheld Poverty Fighters: Building the Killer Apps of Global Prosperity
Among many in the development space, connective technologies are either the cheat code to global prosperity or a false prophet obscuring the real challenges effecting the world’s poor. Officials as high-ranking as Secretary Hillary Clinton have called the spread of cheap cell phones and laptops a driving force against poverty even as many of their most promising applications are failing to deliver on scale.
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- Impact Assessment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bush Food Gathers Momentum as a Social Enterprise
The concept of ‘bush tucker’ is uniquely Australian - romanticised by Hollywood as something Crocodile Dundee survived on - but now a group of Indigenous Queenslanders wants to turn the harvesting of native bush foods into a sustainable social enterprise.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Partners in Food Solutions, USAID and TechnoServe Expand Partnership to Improve Food Security in Africa
$15 million Public-Private Partnership Agreement will enable consortium of global food companies to help transform food processing through its 500+ corporate volunteer network
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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Release of 2012 MIV Survey – growth stabilizes in spite of lower rates and investor redemptions
Washington D.C., October 16, 2012 – Today MicroRate released The State of Microfinance Investment 2012, which finds that microfinance investment has stabilized into a lower growth rate following the global financial crisis.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- microfinance, research
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MicroRate: Release of 2012 MIV Survey – growth stabilizes in spite of lower rates and investor redemptions
Today MicroRate released The State of Microfinance Investment 2012, which finds that microfinance investment has stabilized into a lower growth rate following the global financial crisis. According to Sebastian von Stauffenberg, CEO of MicroRate, “the findings from this year’s study show how the microfinance investment market is maturing and settling into a more sustainable rate of growth. This growth, in spite of record-setting redemptions, shows the resilience of these funds within the impact investment asset class.”
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Help Us Find 30 Awesome Social Entrepreneurs Under 30
Last year, we launched our 30 Under 30 project, where we named 30 up-and-comers in 12 industries, including technology, food and wine, music, and finance. This year, we’re including a new category I’m very excited about: social entrepreneurs.
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- Uncategorized
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Egypt’s NBD allocates EGP 200 million to finance micro-enterprises
National Bank for Development (NBD) has allocated EGP 200 million towards providing funding for small and micro enterprises, and designed a comprehensive range of funding programmes that are Shari'ah-compliant.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- North Africa & Near East