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Report: African Smallholder Farmers Benefit from Reduced Crop Losses and Higher Incomes from a Novel Pest Alert Service
This review is a keystone paper that brings together six years of work on PRISE.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Governor Abdulrazaq Inaugurates Steering Committee For SAPZ Project in Kwara, Nigeria
Supported by the Islamic Development Bank and counterpart funding from the state government, SAPZ is a $57.2m project designed to promote agroprocessing and sustainable farming.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Seedstars Africa Ventures Gets $30 Million Backing from EIB Global to Invest in Early-Stage Startups
Seedstars Africa Ventures said that while the fund is sector-agnostic, it is keen on startups that address basic needs such as education, healthcare and utilities, or enhancing goods, services and efficiency.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2023: Announcing the Three Winners of our Annual Contest
As 2024 gets underway, we'd like to announce the results of NextBillion’s annual “Most Influential Article of the Year” contest. This year's contest featured a strong slate of articles, covering a diverse array of topics ranging from systems change to decarbonization, in sectors that included energy, agriculture, finance and more. We've highlighted the three winners, as selected by our readers, in this article.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Finance, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology, WASH
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Press Release: DFC Approves 17 Transactions Totaling More Than $3.3 Billion in Q1 of FY2024
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) approved 17 new transactions in the first quarter of FY2024 at the board and sub-board levels.
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- Investing
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- Global
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Is A Healthy Diet A Luxury In India?: On The Recent UN Report On Nutrition
The government claims that just 813 million people in India need food aid, while the UN report indicates that over a billion people could not afford a decent diet in the year 2021.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- food security, nutrition
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Announcing NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2023: Cast Your Vote in our Annual Contest by Jan. 7!
As 2023 draws to a close, it’s time for NextBillion’s annual tradition: our “Most Influential Articles of the Year” contest. As we've done since 2012, we've selected 12 of our most-read articles from the past year, inviting readers to vote for the ones that influenced their thinking the most. You can vote multiple times — up to once per hour — during the voting period, which will run from Dec. 22 to 11:59 pm on Jan. 7. Best wishes for a healthy and prosperous new year!
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Finance, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology, WASH
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COP28: World Bank Unleashes $100 Million for Climate-Smart Agriculture in Africa
The World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) is set to inject $100 million into the Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project between 2024 and 2025.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa