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East African dairy farmers earning more from market linkages to milk processors
May 27, 2018 Editor 0
Staff of Kinyogoga Dairy Farmers’ Cooperative Society in Uganda pour milk into a cooler. This is one of several milk chilling plants set up under the EADD project (photo credit: EADD). The demand for high-value food items such as meat and dairy products is on the rise in East Africa. However, productivity-enhancing services such as […]
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Key lessons for policymakers from China’s financial inclusion experience
April 24, 2018 Editor 0
Over the past 15 years, China has emerged as one of the world’s financial inclusion success stories. While much attention has been paid to the rapid innovation and massive scaling of Chinese fintech companies, China’s successes in financial inclusion reach beyond fintech. Account ownership has increased significantly and is now on par with that of […]
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Can blockchain disrupt gender inequality?
April 24, 2018 Editor 0
Also available in: Español | Français | العربية Blockchain is the subject of considerable hype, thanks largely to the rise (and fall and rise…) of high profile digital currencies. Beyond this spotlight, development experts and innovators are exploring whether the technology behind cryptocurrencies can be leveraged to advance gender equality. Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology […]
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Business incubation a means for effective business development
April 24, 2018 Editor 0
BioInnovate Africa Programme organised a Business Incubation Model Development Workshop from 26 – 28 February, 2018, in Nairobi, Kenya. The workshop was for the BioInnovate Africa Programme Category 2 business incubation project teams, to strengthen their capacity for professional business incubation as one of the routes to commercialize their innovative biological-based technologies and/or products. The […]
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A network approach to growing green entrepreneurship
April 24, 2018 Editor 0
Climate Business Innovation Network participants at the end of a workshop held in Pretoria, South Africa. Photo © World Bank How do you empower local entrepreneurs to advance bottom-up solutions to climate change? How do you provide local green entrepreneurs with the technical assistance and market intelligence they need to validate innovative technologies and business models? […]
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What sustainable intensification of mixed farming systems looks like in Ethiopia–case of the Africa RISING project
April 24, 2018 Editor 0
In this video, Peter Thorne, the Africa RISING project coordinator in Ethiopia, and Melkamu Bezabih, a postdoctoral livestock feeds and nutrition researcher, talk about sustainable intensification of mixed farming systems in Ethiopia in the Africa RISING project. This video was recorded during an international exchange visit organized near Debre Birhan (one of the research sites […]
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