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‘Doing Good By Doing Deals’: How Law Students Help Social Entrepreneurs Help Small Farmers
The International Transactions Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School works with social entrepreneurs who are inventing new ways to strengthen agriculture in rural Africa, improving agricultural inputs, developing sustainable practices and building supply chains. They all operate in a legal no-man’s land between existing nonprofit and for-profit regimes, which means that both the social entrepreneurs and their legal counsel need to be especially enterprising.
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- Agriculture, Social Enterprise
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World Food Program USA and Cargill Partner to Strengthen Local Food Security
More than 100,000 schoolchildren in three countries will be served school meals sourced from local farmers over the next two years as part of a new joint program from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), World Food Program USA and Cargill.
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- Agriculture
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On the Podcast: What’s next for the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership? An Interview with CEO Mark Gunton
In the latest NextBillion Podcast, we chat with Mark Gunton, CEO of the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership. This is a pivotal time for CGEP, as its connection to the Clintons has brought intense scrutiny from the media and politicians during this presidential campaign. In our wide-ranging discussion, Gunton discusses the election's potential impact on CGEP, and talks about its approach to scaling enterprises, some mistakes it made early on, and his concerns about how social entrepreneurship is practiced today.
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- Agriculture, Social Enterprise
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Digital Technology is Key to Solving ‘Wicked Problems’ in Agriculture
There's a great need for partnerships between the private sector and government – as well as broader, cross-sectoral partnerships inclusive of civil society, NGOs, farmer organizations, research institutes and academia – in order to collaboratively solve "wicked" problems with information and communication technologies for agriculture.
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- Agriculture
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Kiva and The MasterCard Foundation Announce Five-Year Project to Expand Financial Access Among African Smallholder Farmers and Rural Populations
Kiva and The MasterCard Foundation today entered into a five-year, $7.9 million partnership to test and scale financial services and loan products tailored to the unique needs of smallholder farmers and rural populations in Sub-Saharan Africa. Support from The MasterCard Foundation underscores its commitment to enable financial inclusion strategies with high-impact potential.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Making Asset Finance Work for Small Scale Agribusiness
A $50 billion dollar investment opportunity currently exists in the agribusiness sector for storage infrastructure, with the potential to raise income in small-scale agribusiness by 80-140%.
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- Agriculture
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Root Capital and The MasterCard Foundation to Increase Incomes for 300,000 Farmers in West Africa
Impact investing pioneer Root Capital (www.RootCapital.org) announced today at the African Green Revolution Forum a new partnership with The MasterCard Foundation (www.MastercardFdn.org) that will help raise incomes for over 300,000 smallholder farmers in West Africa. The Foundation has committed $5.2 million to Root Capital over five years to support early-stage agricultural businesses that generate transformational impact in rural communities in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Senegal.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa announces over $800,000 grant to Esoko Ghana for agriculture
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), has announced an $867,788 grant to Esoko Ghana for the implementation of MasterCard Foundation project to boost agro input supply for smallholder farmers.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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