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The Urgent Need to Address Climate Impacts on MSMEs: Recommendations for Designing Right-Fit Tools and Solutions
Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) provide a critical link to goods and services while generating income for millions of households around the world. But as Bethany Kanten at Mercy Corps Ventures points out, these businesses remain underserved in several areas that are limiting their resilience to key challenges – including climate change. She shares new research based on interviews with hundreds of MSMEs in Africa, which reveals the opportunity for innovators, investors and funders to positively impact these enterprises with climate solutions.
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- Entrepreneurship, Environment, Investing
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Re/Make Fashion Accountability 2022 Report Finds Apparel Brands And Retailers Need To Do More
Re/make’s 2022 Fashion Accountability Report finds a few promising trends, but said much more work needs to be done to bring sustainability and social justice to manufacturing.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- South Asia
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Eugene Willemsen, CEO – PepsiCo AMESA, Shares the Company’s “Positive” Outlook on Sustainability
In an exclusive interview with Gulf Business ahead of COP27, Willemsen sheds light on how sustainability and regenerative agriculture initiatives.
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- Agriculture
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- Global
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China’s Loss Is Mexico’s Gain: Bank of America Says a Transformed Global Supply Chain Means Nearshoring Investment in the Country Is a ‘Lifetime Opportunity’
The nearshoring momentum could represent a major rethink of global supply chains, and some countries could be in line for a windfall because of it.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- Global
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Can Blockchain Make Chocolate More Just?
Producers in the Ecuadorian Amazon found that consumers are willing to pay more for cocoa that uses transparent supply chains.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Latin America
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Lifestores Healthcare Raises $3 Million to Expand Its Pharmaceutical Marketplace Across Nigeria
A handful of healthtech companies bring efficiency to Nigeria’s pharmaceutical supply chain issues; Lifestores Healthcare is one.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Apple Asks Suppliers to Shift AirPods, Beats Production to India
Apple is asking suppliers to move some AirPods and Beats headphone production to India for the first time, in a win for the South Asia nation as it attempts to rise in the global supply chain.
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Membership-Driven E-Commerce Platform for Essential Goods Cosmart Raises US $5 Million
Cosmart has already partnered with over 80+ principals and 500+ brands and has delivered over 100,000 products in Indonesia
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- Entrepreneurship, Technology
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- South Asia
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