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What Conditions Will Bring More Investors into the Sustainable Seafood Sector?
As sustainable seafood markets grow, philanthropists, nonprofit leaders, and entrepreneurs see opportunities for impact-minded investors to make profits while creating positive change in the oceans.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Focus on Poverty: More nutrition science or political will?
The second Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI) has just been launched, providing detailed evidence on efforts to reduce hunger (ten indicators) and undernutrition (12 indicators) in 45 developing countries.
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- Health Care
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Global Insulin Market Worth $47.54 Billion by 2020 Research Report Available Online
Key industry participants include Sanofi, Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Biocon, Oramed Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Dongbao Enterprise Group Co., Ltd. and others.
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- Health Care
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New mobile project to tackle malnutrition in Africa and Asia
A CABI-led consortium has gained GSMA funding to help three million people access nutrition information using mobile technology.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tanzania: Missing Link Between Economic Growth, Poverty Reduction
THE much celebrated economic growth in Tanzania and other African countries that are said to make good progress can only have a meaning if there will be myriad poverty alleviation indicators.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Orissa-based Milk Mantra raises $13M in Series C led by Fidelity Growth Partners
The transaction also had a secondary component where 25 angel investors and an old fund under Aavishkaar have exited.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Marketing Nutrition for the Bop: New Report by Hystra Focuses on Successes and Failures of Market-Based Approaches
A new study by Hystra is designed to find more large-scale initiatives that leverage market-based mechanisms to bring the benefits of innovative products and services to more families at the BoP, and help solve the scourge of malnutrition.
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- Education, Health Care
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GSMA announces mHealth partnership across Sub-Saharan Africa
The GSMA has announced that its Mobile for Development mHealth programme has launched a new cross-ecosystem partnership designed to provide a range of mHealth services to women and children, with a particular focus on nutrition, across Sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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