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Tractors for Hire: Developing a new business in post-conflict Northern Uganda
In northern Uganda, 20 years of violent conflict forced hundreds of thousands of farmers to wait in aid camps, leaving the land fallow and an agriculturally-based economy destroyed. Now, with the closure of the camps and a growing peace, farmers are building back and reinvesting in the land. But a lack of tractors could keep the region hungry.
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- Agriculture
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TechnoServe and Nespresso partner to build a more sustainable coffee industry in East Africa
TechnoServe and Nespresso are launching a partnership in East Africa to improve the livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers while creating a more sustainable source of supply for Nespresso.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Corporate Aid or Colonialism?: The G8’s New Alliance sparks debate over big businesses’ role in fighting poverty
The New Alliance, started by the G8 last year, has the ambitious goal of lifting 50 million people out of poverty. It has mobilized billions of dollars in private sector investment in African agriculture. But that investment comes with a few strings attached.
Is it a worthy effort to strengthen weak value chains, or a profit grab that marginalizes smallholder farmers?- Categories
- Agriculture
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G8 Alliance: Corporate boogeyman or vehicle to smallholder empowerment?
Launched just over a year ago, the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition is a global partnership formed by G8 governments, the private sector and African leaders with the goal of lifting 50 million people out of poverty by 2022. The combination of donor commitments, private sector investments and policy reforms by African governments are setting conditions for public-private partnerships to spark agriculture transformation.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Q&A: Developing Entrepreneurship in Tibetan Settlements in India
Sambuddha Bhattacharya joined TechnoServe India as a Volunteer Consultant in April 2012. He has advised several leading Indian companies at KPMG Advisory and served as Strategy Consultant at India’s largest law firm, Amarchand Mangaldas. An entrepreneur himself, Sambuddha recently co-founded skillhippo.com, an online skills marketplace.
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- Agriculture
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Micro Co-Ops for Macro Markets: Land O’Lakes finds success with dairy farmers in Malawi
The five-year program by Land O’Lakes, supported by a grant from USAID, set up or expanded 23 milk bulking groups across the country. The result? Farmers’ incomes were boosted, and they got access to productivity-enhancing inputs, insurance coverage, technical training and community prestige.
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- Agriculture
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LINKing Smallholders : A guide on inclusive business models
The Linking Farmers to Markets programme is one of the six thematic areas of the Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) research programme at the International Center of Tropical Agriculture’s (CIAT). Since 2007 it has conducted action research on inclusive business models, which has been distilled in a participatory guide to Business Models that link smallholders to markets. The LINK Methodology aims to foster inclusive trading relationships between farmer organisations and formal markets.
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- Agriculture
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Inclusive Compliance: The New Playing Field for Inclusive Business Innovations
Not all supply chains are the same, and not all of them are limited to structured factories or facilities. Difficulties arise when monitoring labor standards in informal sectors, such as evaluating environmental or social standards. This was the driving force behind inclusive compliance.
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- Agriculture, Impact Assessment
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