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How Individual Investors Are Fueling Sustainable Farming Improvements in Colombia: Turning a $40B supply chain on its head
Myriad organizations are working to connect farmers to the money they need to make sustainable improvements.At Cima Coffee Farms, we’re working to deliver this capital in the form of real estate investment opportunities for individual investors looking to make a good return and an impact on the world. And we aim to do this by turning the $40 billion coffee industry supply chain on its head.
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- Agriculture
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Indian Farmers Hate Tomatoes: Why this social enterprise is helping them connect to larger customers
Because of high variability in prices and a lack of storage, Indian farmers sometimes prefer to trash the tomatoes than sell at low prices. Social enterprise Krishi Star is partnering with farmers to develop farmer-owned processing units, connecting them with the wider market.
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- Agriculture
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The Best and Simplest Way to Fight Global Poverty
Proof that giving cash to poor people, no strings attached, is an amazingly powerful tool for boosting incomes and promoting development.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Partners in Food Solutions announces Fourth Corporate Partner: Bühler
Partners in Food Solutions (PFS), a nonprofit organization founded by General Mills, is adding a fourth partner, Switzerland-based Bühler, to its consortium of world-class food companies working together to link the technical and business expertise of employee volunteers to small and growing food processors and millers in the developing world. Bühler joins Minneapolis-based General Mills and Cargill, and Royal DSM of the Netherlands as a PFS corporate partner.
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Distribution, the Key to Unlocking the Development Toolbox: D-Prize offers $20,000 awards for start-ups with innovative distribution models across sectors
A new organization, D-Prize, believes entrepreneurs can scale up access to poverty solutions, and is backing the belief with $200,000 in available seed capital. Do you have an idea for a new distribution-focused venture? Submit your concept for a new venture that solves distribution challenges, and potentially win an award up to $20,000 to launch a pilot.
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Why Reinvent the Wheel?: New BIF report looks at adapting existing infrastructure for distribution to the BoP
For those of us at Business Innovation Facility working directly with the companies managing these problems, it’s clear that most cookie-cutter solutions to distribution do not work. In the latest of our ‘Inside Inclusive Business’ series, BIF goes beyond theoretical solutions and focuses on some of the more innovative channel strategies we discovered during our engagement with companies.
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Women Entrepreneurs in Eurasia, Africa Get $100 Million Boost
In a promising step toward the economic empowerment of women in emerging markets, the Coca-Cola Co. and International Finance Corp. (IFC) on Monday announced a joint initiative that aims to support female entrepreneurship in Eurasia and Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Coke is Everywhere: Why Aren’t Medicines?
Why does Coca-Cola find its way to the remotest parts of the world, but essential medicines remain out of reach for many? With colleagues at INSEAD, we set out to decipher this question, hoping to find answers that could help make this debate more constructive. We met several people, interviewed both medicine and Coca-Cola supply chain experts, and talked to some social entrepreneurs.
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- Health Care
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