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SC Johnson and Partners Help Rwanda Pyrethrum Farmers Boost Incomes, Build Sustainable Supply
SC Johnson, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and The Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture announced the Rwanda Pyrethrum Program, a Global Development Alliance (GDA) public-private partnership designed to help Rwanda pyrethrum farmers boost incomes while creating an environmentally and economically sustainable raw materials source. The three-year extension of the initial 28-month program focuses on increasing both production and quality of pyrethrum and on strengthening and expanding the capacity of the cooperative organizations that the farmers rely on to market their crops.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Three Text Messages That Are Changing Africa
Can a text message save a continent?
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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There’s a new HIV drug – but Africa will have to wait
A new drug, Tivicay, that could be vital in the struggle against HIV, might not be available to those who need it the most.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A Stove That Cooks With Molten Salt
Using the sun instead of fuel to cook is an important innovation for the developing world, where fuel is scarce and fumes from burning can be deadly. This stove doesn’t just use the sun--it uses the sun to heat up salt until it melts.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Rwanda: NGO, Micro-Finance Partner to Promote Savings for Education
GLOBAL COMMUNITIES, an international non-governmental organisation, in partnership with Duterimbere IMF, a local Micro-finance institution, has launched a campaign aimed at encouraging residents, especially parents, to save part of their income to educate their children.
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- microfinance
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Malawi’s Health Care Subject Of Intense Worry For Country’s Poor
Fagnes Matunga lives about as far away as a Malawian can from the country’s capital city of Lilongwe. Her village of thatch-roof huts is perched on the summit of a windswept mountain. The dirt road that serves as the main thoroughfare doubles as a porous border between her native Malawi and neighboring Mozambique. Trucks that carry her meager crop of Irish potatoes to urban markets — and the ambulances that transport laboring women in urgent need of C-sections — travel hours to reach the paved highway.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Rural Impulse Fund II and Agora Microfinance N.V. take equity stakes in AMK Cambodia
Antwerp/London, 08 August 2013 – Incofin IM’s Rural Impulse Fund II (RIF II) and Agora Microfinance N.V. (AMNV), a microfinance holding company, have both acquired significant minority stakes in the microfinance institution (MFI) AMK Cambodia. This well-established MFI is the country’s market leader in terms of both outreach and its application of social performance research.
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- Press Release
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- microfinance
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Africa’s Drinking Problem: Alcoholism on the Rise as Beverage Multinationals Circle
In Kenya, depending on whom you ask, John Mututho is either a hero or a villain, but in a country consuming ever more alcohol, he is certainly a household name.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa