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Report: Financial Tools Needed to Pay $200 Billion Nature Restoration in Southeast Asia
Well-structured capital market instruments such as sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) can help scale up investments in nature restoration projects.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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Press Release: World Bank Approves $265 Million to Scale up Agriculture Commercialization and Improve Food Resilience in Malawi
The new financing is part of phase 3 of the regional Food Systems Resilience Program for Eastern and Southern Africa, or FSRP.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Investing, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- agtech, food security, scale
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Vodafone Announces IoT for African Wildlife
The new technology would help people and wildlife to coexist peacefully.
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- Environment, Technology, Telecommunications
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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African Development Bank Approves $20 Million Investment in Private Equity Fund Targeting the Infrastructure Sector in Africa
The mobilization of private capital is critical to closing the infrastructure financing gap in Africa.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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IPD, Mastercard Foundation Commit $45 Million to Expand Vaccine Manufacturing in Africa
The organisations announced the partnership dubbed MADIBA (Manufacturing in Africa for disease immunization and building autonomy).
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A Report by Bill Gate’s Foundations Shows Nigeria’s Impressive Mobile Money Performance
The Bill & Belinda Gates Foundation helped the GSM Association (GSMA) put up the State of the Industry on Mobile Money Report 2023.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Indian Cleantech Startup Newtrace Raises $5.6 Million
The infusion of capital provides Newtrace with the financial resources to accelerate the development and deployment of its innovative green hydrogen solution.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Report: Smallest Agri-SMEs in Africa Owner-Managed by Women Bore the Brunt of COVID-19
The new research was led by a team of CABI scientists and published in the journal CABI Agriculture & Bioscience.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- COVID-19, MSMEs, research, women entrepreneurs
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