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Press Release: John Deere Foundation Announces $19 Million in Grants Aimed At Eliminating Global Hunger
The John Deere Foundation announced a series of grants totaling $19 million aimed at eliminating hunger by increasing access to food, uplifting resource-constrained farmers, and supporting global food systems.
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- Agriculture, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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US to Remove Uganda and Three Other African Countries from Agoa Trade Deal
Agoa gives eligible sub-Saharan African countries duty-free access to the US for more than 1,800 products.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Energy Transition is Hiding a Human Rights Problem: Due Diligence ‘Takes the Cover Off’
Human rights due diligence reporting requires companies in all sectors to examine their supply chains to see if any business relationships are contributing to human rights abuses.
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- Energy, Technology
- Region
- Global
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AFRIFF, MTN Join Forces to Empower African Filmmakers, Indigenous Content Creators
This year’s festival, with the theme ‘Indigenous 2.0 Global’, will be held between November 5 and 11 at the Landmark Centre in Lagos.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Rainforest Carbon Credit Schemes Misleading and Ineffective, Finds Report
System not fit for carbon offsetting, puts Indigenous communities at risk and should be replaced with new approach, say researchers.
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- Environment, Technology
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- Global
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Press Release: Wildmender Partners with the Rainforest Alliance to Help Gamers Play in Harmony with Nature
Partnership will empower the world’s 1.8 billion gamers to learn about their impact on the planet and show them what they can do to help save it.
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- Environment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: Indigenous Peoples are Being Excluded from a Global Pool of Climate Cash
The U.N. says the world is spending trillions on climate action and only a fraction is going to Indigenous communities.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Global
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Yunus Was Right — Credit is Indeed a Human Right, and Savings is Important Too: Why the Microfinance Sector Must Avoid the ‘Circular Firing Squad’ and Promote Multiple Approaches to Financial Inclusion
Alex Counts, financial inclusion pioneer and founder of Grameen Foundation, took issue with Jeffrey Ashe’s recent NextBillion article, “Yunus Was Wrong—Savings, Not Credit, is a Human Right.” He argues that, instead of seeing the world through an “either/or” lens, the financial inclusion sector should embrace multiple tools, including credit, savings, insurance and more — and he urges today's changemakers to avoid promoting one social innovation at the expense of others.
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- Finance, Social Enterprise
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