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Small Farmers and Business Get Reason to Cheer as Reserve Bank of India Grants Licenses to 10 Small Banks
The Reserve Bank granted small bank licences to 10 applicants, most of which are engaged in microfinance, in a move seen as one of the most far-reaching initiatives on financial inclusion since bank nationalisation in the late 1960s.
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- Agriculture
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- South Asia
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- lending, microfinance
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Zambian capital can’t quench thirst of its booming population
Dorothy Zulu survives on 10 kwacha ($1) a day and, like the majority of Ngombe's 120,000 residents, spends up to a third of it on water. "If you don't have money here you can't drink water," Zulu told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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DKM Microfinance Saga in Ghana: Three Die in Nkoranza
Frustrated customers of financial companies with frozen accounts have vowed to make Nkoranza a living hell for government employees if monies lodged with the microfinance companies are not released to them.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- lending, microfinance
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FAO and MasterCard Join Forces on Financial Inclusion
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and MasterCard are joining forces to create an innovative new alliance against hunger.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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WHO Promotes Water, Sanitation to Battle Neglected Tropical Diseases
Water, sanitation and hygiene are part of a new World Health Organisation strategy to fight neglected tropical diseases which afflict more than 1.5 billion people, the WHO said on Thursday.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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34 Indigenous Crops Promoting Health and Feeding the World
Every day, plant species across the globe are disappearing. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports that approximately 75 percent of the Earth’s plant genetic resources are now extinct, and another third of plant biodiversity is expected to disappear by 2050. Up to 100,000 plant varieties are currently endangered worldwide.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- nutrition
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Cocoa Farmers Embrace Telemedicine
Kuapa Kokoo Farmers' Union - a farmers' cooperative, has introduced a telemedicine project to help effectively tackle the health needs of the Ghanaian cocoa farmer.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Drinkable Book: The Pages Contain Instructions and Can Be Used as High-Tech Water Filters
Here's a very clever idea: A book that not only contains information about clean drinking water printed on its pages, but the actual pages themselves can be torn off and used as high-tech filters that will remove 99% of bacteria from the filtered water. The idea came out of Dr. Theresa Dankovich's chemistry PhD work at McGill University in Montreal, during which she invented a new bactericidal silver nanoparticle paper and a green method of producing it using cheap and benign processes. She and her team are now trying to make the Drinkable Book a reality to contribute to the effort to bring clean water to the 663 million people who don't have access to it, according to the World Health Organization/ UNICEF Joint Monitoring Project.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Health Care, Impact Assessment