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Prize-winning projects promote healthier eating, smarter crop investments
June 28, 2018 Editor 0
The winners of this year’s Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize were a team from Harvard University that’s bringing healthier meal options to low-income communities and an MIT team that’s crowdsourcing and crunching crop-price data for smarter investing. EatWell, a team of students from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and outside experts, won […]
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Reliable energy for all
June 28, 2018 Editor 0
During high school, Prosper Nyovanie had to alter his daily and nightly schedules to accommodate the frequent power outages that swept cities across Zimbabwe. “[Power] would go almost every day — it was almost predictable,” Nyovanie recalls. “I’d come back from school at 5 p.m., have dinner, then just go to sleep because the electricity […]
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Making marble from bottles: plastic waste’s second life in Kenya
June 28, 2018 Editor 0
It is estimated that every day Nairobi generates 3,000 tons of waste; 12% is plastic. At the same time, the demand for new houses is growing at a rate of 600 per day. Innovative climate technologies can offer solutions that tackle both the challenges of plastic recycling and the increasing housing demand. But what is an […]
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A regional enterprise to commercialize an integrated technology for waste water treatment and biowaste conversion in eastern Africa
May 27, 2018 Editor 0
Preamble In the wake of urbanization and rapidly expanding agro-process businesses [such as slaughterhouses, tanneries, breweries, and others], environmental pollution, increased greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), and contamination of water sources due to inadequate waste management have become the norm. There is generally little awareness on the environmental and socio-economic consequences of polluting the environment, since […]
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Dr Peggy Oti-Boateng
May 27, 2018 Editor 0
Dr Oti-Boateng is the Senior Programme Specialist for Science and Technology and serves as the Coordinator for the African Network of scientific and Technological Institutions (ANSTI) in the UNESCO Multi-Sectoral Regional Office in Harare, Zimbabwe. Dr. Oti-Boateng has over 32 years working experience in teaching, research, and development of technologies for sustainable development and STI […]
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Three years in a row: Mauritania continues to excel in its Doing Business performance
May 27, 2018 Editor 0
Also available in: Françaisالعربية Photo: Arne Hoel Description: Fish market and vegetable market, Nouakchott. The daily catch is brought here by the fishermen’s wives and family members to sell the fish. As the World Bank Group’s flagship publication, Doing Business, celebrates its 15th edition, Mauritania continues to thrive as a major reformer in investment climate […]
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