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India Farmers Intensify Protests as Deadlock Over New Laws Continue
Tens of thousands of Indian farmers on Sunday intensified their protests against three new agricultural laws aimed at overhauling food grain procurement and pricing rules by allowing private companies direct access to the vast agrarian sector.
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- Agriculture
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- Asia Pacific
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USAID Announces New Partnership With Root Capital, Keurig Dr Pepper, and Ezrah Charitable Trust to Protect Supply Chains and Agribusiness Amid COVID-19
Today, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced the Feed the Future Partnership for Sustainable Supply Chains, a new collaboration with Root Capital, Keurig Dr Pepper, and Ezrah Charitable Trust to help small agricultural businesses around the world stay afloat during the pandemic of COVID-19 and rebuild in its wake.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus
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Arya Raises $21 Million to Provide Farmers in India Finance and Post-Harvest Services
Only about a third of the yields Indian farmers produce reaches the big markets. Those whose produce makes it there today are able to leverage post-harvest services. Everyone else is missing out.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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European Union Boosts Resilience in Northern and Western Bahr el Ghazal States
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a €6.1 million contribution from the European Union to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable communities in Northern and Western Bahr El Ghazal states.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- North Africa & Near East
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Etherisc To Offer Blockchain-Based Crop Insurance To Kenyan Farmers
The project aims to provide a blockchain-based parametric insurance platform that helps protect smallhold farmers from the effects of climate change.
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- Agriculture, Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Crypto-Enabled Sun Exchange Expands in Africa With Solar-Plus-Storage Project for Nhimbe Fresh
Sun Exchange, the world’s first peer-to-peer solar leasing platform, has announced its expansion into sub-Saharan Africa with the launch of the crowdsale for Phase 1 of a multiphase 1.9 megawatt (MW) solar-plus-storage project for Nhimbe Fresh, a premier exporter of fresh produce in Marondera, Zimbabwe. This will be the largest Sun Exchange solar installation to date and the first outside South Africa.
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- Agriculture, Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Technology Innovations Look To Change the Cacao Landscape in Colombia
As Colombia searches for a way forward after a half-century of war, the cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) could have a significant role to play. Called the food of the gods, this squat tropical hardwood holds exceptional social and environmental promise in the intractable expanses of the country.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Latin America
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UN Warns Nigeria, Yemen and Others Risk Falling Into Famine in 6 Months
UN’s World Food Programme warned that Nigeria could face major food emergency in three to six months.
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- Agriculture
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