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Scaling Solar Irrigation to Fight the Global Food Crisis: Why Subsidies Could be the Solution
COVID-19 has triggered a global food emergency, as the number of people facing starvation could double to 265 million by the end of 2020. Samir Ibrahim at SunCulture explores how solar-powered irrigation systems can help smallholder farmers combat this crisis by drastically improving their yields – and discusses three reasons why smart subsidies can address the affordability barrier.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Energy
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Viewpoint: The Great Reset After COVID-19 Must Put People First
Ventilators, masks and other personal protective equipment are urgently needed, but alongside these efforts, deep structural reforms predicated on putting “people and the planet” at centre stage and supported by social movements are the necessary building blocks for transformation.
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- Coronavirus
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Viewpoint: Turning the Tide in Development — an Inclusive Response to COVID-19
As research professor Cynthia Enloe has said of this pandemic: “We aren’t all in this together. We’re all on the same rough seas together, but we’re in very different boats.”
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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Press Release: Kiva Receives USAID Design Funding to Structure Innovative $100M Fund to Support 1 Million Women Globally
Financial inclusion non-profit Kiva is announcing a partnership under the White House-led Women’s Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) Initiative with USAID to advance women’s economic empowerment by increasing access to financing for women entrepreneurs and business owners
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- Investing
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Viewpoint: First Summit of Global Development Banks Must Deliver on Ending Fossil Fuel Finance
Governments worldwide plan to produce 120% more oil, gas and coal by 2030 than is compatible with 1.5C warming limit - supported by huge volumes of public money
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- Energy, Environment
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Viewpoint: E-Remittance Firms Have Pushed Inclusion, and Will Lead the Recovery
What's making fintechs so popular for remittances? Aside from representing cost savings, being built from the ground up with user experience at the forefront has enabled these entities to be more flexible and inclusive than incumbents.
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- Finance
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Press Release: Gateway Academy Merges with Digital Frontiers to Strengthen Capacity Building Initiatives
Gateway Academy, the digital learning platform for financial inclusion incubated by the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), is merging with Digital Frontiers, a globally recognized non-profit that focuses on capacity building for the development community.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A Digital Lifeline in a Public Health Crisis
To mitigate the profound disruption to life and livelihood caused by efforts to contain the virus, governments must rapidly scale social support to vulnerable households.
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- Coronavirus
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- South Asia