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On the Ground at SOCAP – Day 2: Big partnerships, lean startups and government hijinks
Scott Anderson and Marzena Zukowska are your roving bloggers from this week’s Social Capital Markets Conference in San Francisco.
Here are just a few of the many snippets of wisdom they picked up during Day 2 (Wednesday) at the sprawling social investing gathering - taken from four of the day’s many sessions.- Categories
- Social Enterprise, Uncategorized
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Why ‘Cheaper’ Projects Boost Farmer Profits: USAID finds small sums can generate big returns in South Sudan
To examine the effects of USAID’s assistance in South Sudan’s agriculture sector since 2012, a team completed a cost-benefit analysis of the $26 million in USAID funds being spent annually there in support of the Feed the Future Initiative. Part of the analysis examined two different techniques for improving crop yields.
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- Agriculture
