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Press release: New €200 million impact fund launched to scale agribusiness in developing countries
Small scale farming is one of the biggest industries in the world, with 500 million small farms and 2.5 billion people relying on small scale farming on a daily basis. The demand for impact investing in rural agriculture is growing as investors strive to end poverty and hunger to support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The ABC Fund will also focus on creating employment, particularly for young people in Africa, to offer them an alternative to migration.
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- Press release
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Igniting Growth in the DRC: How Renewable Energy Can Power Urban Development
Off-grid solar systems have been a key to bringing energy access to the rural poor across East Africa. Yet in the Democratic Republic of Congo, just 9 percent of the population have access to electricity. Flavia Howard, a strategy consultant for social entrepreneurs, argues that in spite of the disruption caused by disease and war, her research shows that the country presents a compelling market for distributed energy solutions.
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- Energy
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Can Mobile Money Boost Financial Inclusion in Southern Africa?
Mobile money offers opportunities for the unbanked to save, spend, and transfer money using just a cell phone. Linda Du ’19, an MBA student at Yale SOM, traveled to Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique to talk with providers, customers, and others about the technology’s potential to give the poor access to the financial system.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Why toilets should be on the agenda at Davos
As the world’s cities grow, and the extreme weather patterns that accompany climate change take greater hold, innovation in sanitation presents more than great opportunity and must not be relegated to the corporate social responsibility team.
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- WASH
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Viewpoint: The Future Is in Africa, and China Knows It
Although securing access to natural resources is surely one of China’s goals, its investments in Africa go beyond extractive industries.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Secure the Caribbean — with a modest addition to the BUILD Act
The BUILD Act’s passage was rightly cheered, with one analysis calling it “the most important piece of U.S. soft power legislation in more than a decade.” The BUILD Act, however, inadvertently leaves the Caribbean out in the cold. This situation, likely unintentional, can be easily remedied with a better understanding of the problem.
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- Latin America
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Power Problem in a Changing Climate: The Renewable Energy Movement is Shortchanging Women and the Poor
What happens when a movement that aims to correct a global power imbalance develops an imbalance of its own? That’s the question facing renewable energy, says Solar Sister co-founder Neha Misra – a sector dominated by “largely white, often male, founder companies with Western expatriate leadership,” in which organizations with a social focus are sidelined by investors seeking quick profits. Misra discusses these and other uncomfortable truths – and why the movement must address them.
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- Energy
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Press release: Parsyl and Gavi announce supply chain strengthening partnership
This partnership is made possible by a combination of support from the Government of Canada, Unorthodox Philanthropy and the Gogel Family Foundation. To lead the new initiative, Parsyl appointed Souleymane Sawadogo, an expert in vaccine quality assurance and a former leader of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Africa operations where he established laboratory systems across the continent.
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- Health Care
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