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ViewChange Video of the Week: Burning In the Sun
An entrepreneur decides to return to his homeland in Mali and start a local business building solar panels - the first of its kind in the sun-drenched nation. Burning the Sun tells the story of Daniel’s journey growing the budding idea into a viable company and of the business’ impact on Daniel’s first customers in the tiny village of Banko.
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- Energy, Environment
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- rural development, solar
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Guest Post: The World Bank Group, Palm Oil and Poverty
Despite the media focus on the palm oil "debate", which pits proponents of "development" against environmentalists, many voices in private, public, and civil sectors have noted the potential of the palm oil sector to contribute to poverty reduction. The World Bank Group should aim to achieve and measure poverty reduction, not palm oil investments.
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- Agriculture
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How to Save Rural Kenyan Farmers $200 Per Year
An innovative natural resource management program in Kenya is smartly integrating efficiency improvements into already strong agricultural programs. Leveraging the profit-enhancing work underway in programs, such as TechnoServe?s dairy development work in Kenya, makes products like solar more accessible for families in rural communities.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment
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- rural development, solar
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Coffee Economics 101 and Nestle’s $500+ Million Bet
Straight black, double espresso, or decaf soy milk latte vanilla grande? For thousands of farmers around the globe, coffee is not a question of taste (or style), but one of survival. A short introduction into coffee economics, the promises of fair-trade and organic, and the $500-plus million direct purchasing bet by the Swiss food giant Nestl?.
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- Agriculture
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Piramal eSwasthya, Demystifying the Primary Healthcare Model
Since its inception in 2008, Piramal Group’s initiative Piramal eSwasthya has worked to "democratize healthcare" through scalable and sustainable breakthrough healthcare delivery models. During the past three years, eSwasthya has experimented with telemedicine, clinical decision support systems and village-based health entrepreneurs.
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- Health Care
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- rural development, scale
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Guest Post: Reflections from Center Stage at the 2011 World Future Energy Summit
It’s a long way from E+Co’s headquarters in Bloomfield, NJ to center stage at the magnificent Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi. But as a result of the focus and commitment of E+Co staff and the dedication of more than 200 energy entrepreneurs in Africa, Asia and Latin America, E+Co was one of the finalists for the Zayed Future Energy Prize (ZFEP).
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- Environment
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Power to the People: New Report on Energy for the Base of the Pyramid
WRI’s new report, Power to the People, produced in collaboration with the Center for Development Finance-IFMR, looks at the market potential for clean and renewable energy in rural India. The following interview, with co-Author and NextBillion Staff Writer Saurabh Lall, explores the study’s main insights and conclusions.
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- Energy