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Analysis: EU-Africa Partnership Must Reflect ‘Realities of African Agriculture’
Future agrifood partnerships between the EU and Africa take into account the realities of farming in Africa, especially in the context of a drive for a greener transition, agrifood stakeholders have warned.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Does Goal 7 Energy for All Need a Rethink?
"In the effort to produce renewable energy and decarbonise their economies, emerging countries have neglected the effect on marginalised populations, which could ultimately prove unsustainable for all," says Assistant Professor Jacobo Ramirez from the Department of Management, Society and Communication at CBS.
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- Energy
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Analysis: Has COVID-19 Prompted the Belt and Road Initiative to Go Green?
Following a year of coronavirus-related disruptions, China appears to be placing a greater focus on sustainable, digital and health-related projects in its flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
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- Coronavirus, Environment
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: Stephanie Cohn Rupp Appointed CEO of Veris Wealth Partners
Veris Wealth Partners, a B Corp certified impact wealth management firm, announced today that Chief Operating Officer Stephanie Cohn Rupp has been promoted to CEO. Cohn Rupp’s appointment to the CEO position demonstrates the firm’s ongoing commitment to talent development and its 100% focus on impact investing.
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- Investing
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Report: Transition to Electric Motorbikes Could Save Rwanda Rwf9 Billion Annually
The Government of Rwanda is engaging partners and private sector to promote e-mobility that could see phased adoption of electric buses, private cars and motorcycles with a goal to reduce conventional vehicle sales, transport fuel imports which are associated with gas emissions.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Pearl Recycling’s Simple but Creative Approach Towards Tackling Climate Change in Nigeria
Earth’s temperature is currently at 0.99 °C, and nineteen of the 20 warmest years we have witnessed occurred around 2001. It doesn’t help that according to a NASA Climate Change report, some of the devastating effects of climate change on our environment are heat waves, heavy downpour, erosion, rising sea-levels, drought, increased temperature, wildfires and many more.
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- Environment, Social Enterprise
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Climate Crisis Is Foundation of Indian Farmers’ Protests
The current protests by Indian farmers against the passage of three laws have deep roots in income insecurity, which is driven by changing rainfall patterns and incentives that promote the overuse of water.
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- Agriculture, Environment
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- climate change, governance
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Press Release: TLcom Leads $6 Million Series A in African InsureTech Platform, Pula
Nairobi, Kenya. 25 January 2021. Pula, an African InsureTech service provider startup that specialises in digital and agricultural insurance to derisk millions of smallholder farmers across Africa, has closed a $6mn Series A fundraise. The Series A fund was led by TLcom Capital, with the participation of Women’s World Banking. The new investment will be used to scale up operations in the company’s existing 13 markets across Africa. Currently, Pula has impacted over 4.3mn farmers on the continent and the new funding will also help propel its expansion into Asia to power resilience and profitability for Asian smallholder farmers.
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- Wimbart
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa