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iFarmer Secures $1.5 Million Foreign Funding to Strengthen Agri Value Chain
The investment will support iFarmer’s working capital requirements, enabling it to expand agricultural input distribution and strengthen market linkages for farmers across Bangladesh.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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GAFSP Announces $38 Million in Grants to Support Smallholder Farmers Across Africa, Asia, and the Americas
The latest allocation by GAFSP places a strong emphasis on strengthening the capacities and financial sustainability of producer organizations, while scaling up tested innovations for smallholder agriculture.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Global
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World Bank Approves $500 Million to Boost Nigeria’s Agriculture, Target One Million Farmers
The project is designed to improve farm productivity, strengthen value chains, and create jobs, while helping to stabilise food supply in Africa’s most populous nation.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: LPG Supply Shock Exposes Fragility of India’s Clean Cooking Strategy
India’s reliance on imported LPG has come under strain, as supply disruptions cause delays and uncertainty.
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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Tackling Air Pollution Could Deliver $220 Billion Economic Boost for India, Study Finds
The shift to cleaner technologies and practices could support around 1.4 million job transitions and new employment opportunities, pointing to significant changes in India’s labour market and industrial systems.
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care
- Region
- Global
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Viewpoint: The Economy That Remembers: Institutional Amnesia and the Regenerative Correction
Modern capitalism has perfected a hidden discipline: the systematic design of economic systems that forget. What we call “externalities” are not costs that disappear — they are consequences displaced. The regenerative economy, at its core, is not simply greener or more inclusive. It is an effort to build systems that remember.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- Global
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Botswana Targets Drug Manufacturing in Health Emergency Recovery
Health Minister Stephen Modise, in an interview, said that while medicines are now more widely available, nationwide the focus is on building strong supply chains with locally manufactured drugs to overcome the high cost of importing medication.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Zimbabwe Bans All Raw Mineral Exports
Africa’s largest lithium producer — whose stores make up 4.4% of global reserves — is a major supplier to China, which leads the world in refining the battery metal. But like other African countries, Zimbabwe is increasingly keen to maximize the value of its minerals by processing them at home before exporting.
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- Energy, Environment, Transportation
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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