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Press Release: Illumina Launches Global Health Access Initiative to Support Acceleration of Pathogen Sequencing in Low- And Middle-Income Countries
The program, developed with guidance from customers, funders, and market facilitators including the nonprofit FIND, will provide reduced pricing structures for eligible sequencing products from Illumina to qualified global health funding entities and address key international logistics and supply chain challenges.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Global
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‘Too Big to Fail’: How USAID’s $9.5 Billion Supply Chain Vision Unraveled
Ten years ago, USAID unveiled the largest contract in its history, aimed at transforming health supply chains in lower-income countries. It has not gone according to plan.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Global
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Growcoms Raises $3.5 Mn From JSW Ventures, Others To Digitise Value Chain Of Spices
The startup, incubated by Indigram Labs, counts food companies, flavour houses, FMCG companies and seasoning brands among its clients.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Global
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- agtech, supply chains
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Scaling Climate Finance for Smallholder Agriculture: Lessons Learned from Partnering with Farmer-Allied Businesses
Small-scale agriculture supports the livelihoods of more than 600 million families and generates over 40% of jobs in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Yet as Elizabeth Teague at Root Capital points out, agricultural livelihoods are highly vulnerable to climate change, and smallholder farmers receive just 1.7% of global climate financing. She discusses how Root Capital is working with farmer-allied enterprises to help close this gap, sharing what they’ve learned about how to design and scale climate financing for smallholder communities.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Investing
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Orange Partners with Koolboks to Provide Refrigeration Solutions in 12 African Countries
Koolboks solar freezers will be first marketed in the Democratic Republic of Congo and soon in the 11 other countries where Orange Energies is deployed.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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IFC and OCP Group Launch $800 Million Agri-Finance Platform to Build Sustainable Food Systems in Africa
The new platform will build and support sustainable food production and distribution systems in Africa, contributing to skills development, job creation, and food security.
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- Agriculture, Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Response Statement: Mastercard Foundation and Africa CDC Remain Committed to Saving Lives and Livelihoods
To enable evidence-based planning for the new phase, the Mastercard Foundation and Africa CDC are conducting an audit as part of necessary steps to establish what was achieved in phase one.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: South Africa’s Struggling State Logistics Company Is Strangling the Economy
The crisis around rail and ports compounds the problems created by rolling blackouts caused by inefficiencies at ailing electricity utility Eskom.
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- Technology, Transportation
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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