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How Agent Orange helped spawn the Socially Responsible Investing movement
Sustainable, socially responsible mutual funds would not exist without agent orange.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- South Asia
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- impact investing
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Climate smart farmers get tech savvy to save India’s bread basket
Erratic weather, rising temperatures, declining water resources and labour shortages are threatening India's bread basket state of Haryana, forcing farmers to abandon age-old practices and adopt technology to ensure food supplies for millions.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- nutrition
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Four reasons why Modi’s toilet obsession is good for India
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swach Bharat scheme aims to eliminate open defecation by constructing toilets in every household by 2019. No one doubts the need for the programme. Close to 48% of India’s urban population has no access to toilets. In rural areas, the number stands at 60%.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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PRESS RELEASE: PepsiCo Unveils New Water-Modeling Tool at World Water Week
Wednesday at the Stockholm International Water Institute's annual World Water Week, PepsiCo announced the company's latest Water Report and unveiled Hydro-BID, a ground-breaking data management and modeling tool developed in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) that estimates the availability of freshwater in water-scarce regions throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
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- Agriculture, Health Care, Technology
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- Latin America
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Artisanal chocolate shop focuses on education
Introducing Michael Sacco, the founder of ChocoSol, a learning community/social enterprise that focuses on making the ‘food of the gods’ – commonly known as cacao – into fresh, whole food, stone ground chocolate on an artisanal scale.
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- Agriculture
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- Latin America
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Using mobile money to buy water and solar power in east Africa
Mobile phones are facilitating access to utilities in poor rural communities. But do consumers have the faith to go cashless?
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- Agriculture, Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- solar
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Your Coffee Is Getting Fancier, But Is It Getting Better For The World?
Fair-Trade certified coffee has become known as an easy way for coffee drinkers to make the world a better place for coffee growers, many of whom are among the world’s poorest people. But a study released in April 2014 seriously questions how much fair-trade certification really does for them.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India’s Welcome Reform Of Its Ghastly Food Aid Program
India is making essential changes to the way that it operates its food aid program for the poor.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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