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African Farmers Celebrate Earth Day By Saving The World
Storms are getting more violent, seasonal patterns are shifting, and the weather is seemingly harder to predict.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Grassroot-level innovations may hold the key to global challenges
Development professionals should help spread the ideas that are effective in solving problems but often remain in obscurity.
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Coming, ready or not
The threat of a global pandemic is rising again.
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- Asia Pacific
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A Guide to Scaling Social Innovation
For those who have been working in the field of social entrepreneurship for a decade or more, as we have at the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, 2013 is starting to feel like a watershed year.
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AfDB Provides $38m To Aid Entrepreneurship, Job Creation In Rwanda
The African Development Bank (AfDB) is contributing $38 million to boost entrepreneurship and job creation in Rwanda.
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10 Things I Learned At Skoll World Forum 2013
The 10th annual Skoll World Forum, which brought together several hundred of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs to Oxford, wrapped up last week.
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Universal healthcare: 14 steps in the right direction
From innovative financing to national income surveys, our expert panel offer some important lessons in developing affordable and sustainable universal health coverage
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Synthetic biology hastens vaccine research
Even as US officials this week awaited the arrival of a sample of the H7N9 bird flu strain from China - typically the first step in making a vaccine - government-backed researchers had already begun testing a "seed" strain of the virus made from the genetic code posted on the Internet.
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