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New alliance for food security would accelerate agricultural development -Namoale
The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, an initiative to lift 50 million people out of poverty over the next 10 years through sustained agricultural growth, was on Wednesday launched in Accra.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tackling food waste through a social enterprise model
The founder of social enterprise Rubies in the Rubble, proves that you can run a company with a business head and a charitable heart
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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- nutrition, social enterprise, waste
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Mobile Money: How Cell Phones Can Fight Hunger in the Sahel
Some five billion people worldwide were using mobile phones in 2010, according to the International Telecommunication Union, with the strongest growth taking place in developing countries. Africa is the fastest growing mobile market. In the past six years, the industry estimates that the number of subscribers has grown nearly 20 percent each year. At this rate, we can expect to see some 735 million cell phone users in Africa by the end of 2012.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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Obama turns to private sector to feed world’s poor
WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama on Friday reached out to the private sector in hopes of lifting 50 million people in the developing world from poverty, as wealthy nations grapple with a budget crunch.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A Responsibility and a Market: Why Danone May Represent the Future of BoP Business
Eric Soubeiran leads the company’s BOP business efforts as head of Danone’s newly launched BOP Business Unit based in Gurgaon, India. In our recent conversation, Soubeiran described in detail Danone’s trajectory related to BOP markets beginning with the launch of Fundooz, a yogurt product for kids in India.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition
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Bottom Line and Belt Line: Eating Healthy to Solve Malnutrition
Over 1 billion people in the world lack access to adequate food and nutrition while another 1 billion face health risks associated with obesity and overeating. These seemingly bifurcated problems are actually inter-related and reflect the global food imbalance. TFT’s solution aims to addresses these issues by encouraging behavioral changes related to portion size and prompts students, restaurant customers and company employees to think about the global hunger epidemic
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Seven Billion: The Real Population Scare Is Not What You Think
The Earth’s resources that underpin our modern lifestyles are deteriorating. This is not to suggest that hard-earned middle class lifestyles must be curbed or that Africans and Asians should be denied the chance to own laptops and iPods. Far from it. Rather, as the middle class grows, business needs to find ways to shrink natural resource use.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- nutrition
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W/Video Via ViewChange, Oxfam: This World Food Day, Making it Africa’s Last Famine
In 2009, 200 households in the northern Ethiopian farming village Adi Ha enrolled in an Oxfam America program letting them trade work for insurance against draught. This year over 13,000 families in 45 villages enrolled. As draught threatens East Africa, this 1/2 hour documentary from ViewChange and Oxfam shows how investments can break the cycle.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition