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Analysis: Heat Last Year, Untimely Rains This Year: India’s Wheat Crop Takes a Hit Again
Devinder Sharma believes the existing crop insurance scheme has been designed to benefit the private insurance companies rather than the farmers.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
- Tags
- agtech, climate change, data, impact measurement, insurance, scale
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Ashoka WhiteOak Emerging Markets Aims to Be First Investment Trust to Float in 18 Months
Ashoka WhiteOak Emerging Markets Trust PLC is planning to raise £100mln and be the first investment fund to list in London for over 18 months.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
- Tags
- scale
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Press Release: UNDP to Support Seven Innovative Financial Solutions for Clean Energy in East Africa
The seven solutions are the winners of the UNDP Climate Aggregation Platform Financial Innovation Challenge which aims to crowdsource innovative financial aggregation solutions for clean energy assets in East Africa.
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- Environment, Investing, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Dozer Raises $3 Million In Seed Funding
The new funding will contribute to the scaling of product and engineering teams.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- data, infrastructure, scale
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Fuel Subsidy: Nigerian Government Secures $800 Million World Bank Facility
The finance minister said the $800 million is the first tranche of palliatives will be transferred to 50 million Nigerians, who belong to the most vulnerable category of society.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: DFC Approves More Than $655 Million of Investments to Bolster Infrastructure, Energy Security, Food Security, and Healthcare in Q2 of FY2023
The transactions will support U.S. foreign policy and development priorities across the globe.
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- Energy, Investing, Technology
- Region
- Global
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Press Release: Miller Center & AlphaMundi Foundation Partner to Accelerate Scaling for High-Performing Enterprises
The partnership builds on AMF’s expertise in gender and climate investing to provide structured blended finance products to scale small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) in Africa and Latin America,
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- Education, Environment, Social Enterprise
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- Global
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Avanti Finance Secures $24 Million Equity Funding From Rabo Partnerships, IDH Farmfit Fund
The funds will provide support for the company to provide affordable and localised credit products for smallholder farmers in India.
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- Agriculture, Finance, Investing, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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