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Markets don't address the needs of smallholder farmers. To remain competitive, these farmers will have to join forces with other smallholders and the external community will need to assist them by encouraging and enabling the formation of farmers' organizations.
NexThought Monday – Power in Numbers: How organizing, even informally, benefits smallholder farmersCalendar Event
Social Innovation TournamentNews
An innovation that costs less than $5, and requires items that could be found in any drug store, could save thousands of mothers’ lives.
How a Condom and a Catheter Are Saving Mothers From Bleeding to Death During DeliveryBlog Post
Debate rages about what constitutes fair pricing practices for a lifesaving drug that could save millions of people – and how to balance affordability and access with sustained investment in R&D, company profits and responsiveness to stakeholders including patients, health care providers, payers and shareholders.
When ‘Wonder Drugs’ Aren’t Enough: Viral hepatitis reaches watershed moment, but who will pay?News
As part of President Obama’s Power Africa initiative, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. Government’s development finance institution, today committed $233 million in debt financing to support construction and operation of the Kipeto Wind Power Project in Kajiado, Kenya.
OPIC and Kipeto Energy Sign Financing Agreement to Bring New Wind Power to KenyaNews
Corporate Social Responsibility is a trend that has been gaining more attention in recent years.
Social Entrepreneurs That Are Changing the Developing WorldNews
General Electric Company has announced it is at an advanced stage to launch the first-of-its-kind in Africa institute dedicated to training healthcare specialists and technicians. The GE Healthcare Skills and Training Institute will be located in Karen, Nairobi and is set to open its doors to practicing healthcare professionals and graduate students towards the end on 2015.
GE to Launch World-Class Healthcare Training Institute in NairobiBlog Post
Okigusuri is a drug sales system that worked for centuries in Japan and has been successfully exported to other Asian countries. The founders of AfriMedico are betting the system – in which households are given a box of medicine, and they pay only for what they use – will work in Africa, too.
Feel Better Now, Pay Later: AfriMedico founders are hoping an ancient Japanese drug sales system will work in Africa
