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Unilever and Acumen Announce Investment to Bring Cleaner, More Affordable Cook Stoves to Smallholder Farmers and Plantation Workers in East Africa
Acumen and Unilever announced today they will invest nearly $800,000 to enable BURN Manufacturing to bring its new low-cost, energy-efficient, wood-burning cook stove, the Kuniokoa™, to smallholder and plantation workers in tea estates in Kenya and Tanzania.
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- Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Smallholder Farmers and Big Business: 5 Insights from the Field
Modern agricultural practices and new technologies have transformed the productivity and lives of large farmers, but often fail to reach small and very small farmers for a variety of reasons. However, some pioneer companies and organizations across the world have sustainably increased the income and livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers, by sourcing produce from them or selling products to them. What do these pioneers tell us?
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- Agriculture, Impact Assessment
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Mercy Corps, MasterCard Foundation Launch Program to Boost Access to Financial, Informational Services for Smallholder Farmers in Kenya
New AgriFin Accelerate initiative to address barriers to access and use of financial services, especially for young women and youth.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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PRESS RELEASE: OPIC and Big Tree Farms Partner to Modernize Southeast Asian Agriculture
$3.7 million in development finance supports U.S.-led coconut and cocoa producer in Bali, boosting livelihoods for low-income farmers - financing comes through innovative OPIC offering to support impact investments.
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- Agriculture, Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Smartphones help Tanzanian women secure land rights
In an effort to help Tanzania's authorities secure village land rights, USAID launched a project to map geographic and demographic data using mobile phone technology, with the aim of speeding up land rights registration.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Meet Moringa, The African Superfood That’s Healthier Than Kale
It's packed with calcium, protein, and vitamins — and putting it in your smoothie will also send money to African farmers.
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- Agriculture, Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New $35 million competition will enable greater financial inclusion for smallholder farmers in Africa
The MasterCard Foundation has announced the opening of a US$35 million Scaling Competition under its Fund for Rural Prosperity.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Key to Fighting Poverty in Africa: Could unlocking smallholder finance solve both the continent’s food and employment challenges?
Small and mid-sized agribusinesses are a vital link in Africa’s local and regional agriculture markets. They're also key to building an inclusive African economy able to absorb a workforce that’s set to double in size over the next 25 years, and to feeding a continent that is hungrier now than ever. There’s only one problem: Commercial banks won’t lend to them.
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- Agriculture
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