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Sweeter Prospects for Cocoa Farmers: A Recent Study Shows How Formal Land Rights Improve the Financial Outlook for Smallholders in Cote d’Ivoire
Cocoa is one of the world’s most prized foods, but the smallholder farmers who produce it typically live in poverty and often lack formal rights to the land they're farming. Scott Graham and Anahit Tevosyan at FINCA International explore how a partnership between global chocolate companies and other industry and development sector players is strengthening farmers' property rights in Cote d’Ivoire — the source of 45% of the world’s cocoa — thereby aiming to improve their financial health and resilience.
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- Agriculture, Finance
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Report: Introduction to Racial Inequity as a System Risk
New report funded by the surdna foundation helps investors to manage the risks of racial inequity, promote racial equity, and advance racial justice.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
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- human rights
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Report: Child Labourers Are The Unseen Victims Of Climate Change
Child labour affects roughly 160 million children globally with African agriculture at the epicentre.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Workiva Partners With Code.org To Narrow the Digital Divide and Expand Access to Computer Science Education
Workiva Inc., the company powering transparent reporting for a better world, announced today it has kicked off a global, multi-year partnership with Code.org.
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- Education, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Global
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- data, digital inclusion, ESG, human rights, nonprofits
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Viewpoint: How Do Oil Palm Companies Get Away With Disregarding Indonesian Law?
University of Toronto anthropologist Tania Li argues that companies can act with impunity because of corporate-state collusion and a lack of organised resistance.
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- Agriculture, Environment
- Region
- South Asia
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Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women Deploys More Than $2.1 Billion, Expected to Impact the Lives of Over 215,000 Black Women Across the Country
The investment capital and over $23 million in philanthropic capital to 137 organizations, companies and projects across the country to drive economic empowerment.
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- Investing
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- North America
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Google, Others Say Uganda Anti-LGBTQ Bill Bad for Business
A business group in Uganda including corporate giants such as Google says it opposes the country's anti-LGBTQ legislation.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: Social Enterprise Sector Failing Indigenous Businesses
A new report urges social enterprises to better support and value First Nations businesses, laying out practical recommendations for change.
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- Social Enterprise
- Region
- Global
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- failure, human rights
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