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The Gates Foundation Uses Genetic Modification for Good
It’s easy to demonize genetically modified crops. After all, we don’t exactly know what their long-term health effects are, and they have the nasty habit of cross-pollinating with non-GMO crops. When new stories come out about advances in the field, many people react with anger and fear. But the Gates Foundation (and Bill Gates himself) has ...
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Beer Could Provide Lifeline for South Sudan’s Small Farmers
Husband to three wives, father of 10, Joseph Yekisuk, is nothing if not persistent as he detains visitors in a muddy cassava field just as they are about to head back into town. With the noonday sun beating down, the heat and humidity steadily rising, Yekisuk is making a pitch for money, hoes and gumboots. Especially the wellies. Gumboots here denote status in much the same way as the latest iPad does in London or New York. Yekisuk, with his stick-thin legs, is more likely to wear rubber boot...
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A Famine-proof World Requires Investment in Farm Research
Once again the Horn of Africa is suffering a hunger crisis of dizzying magnitude. Nearly 12 million people are in the need of humanitarian assistance, despite more than $1.5 billion in emergency aid efforts to date. It is easy to get lost in these mind-boggling statistics. However, we must urgently act in support these efforts. Relief agencies, community organizations and governments are providing much needed support to save more lives from being lost. But with the America’s e...
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Google Launches Affordable Wi-Fi Product in Kenya
Google in collaboration with African cable and internet services provider, The Wananchi Group has launch a new high-speed wireless broadband network ’Wazi WiFi’ in Nairobi, Kenya with Aptilo Networks. This launch is a part of Wananchi’s commitment to bring high speeds and low cost Wi-Fi in emerging markets. The company sees big opportunities in using WiFi technology for mobile data offloading and providing high speed unmetered access away from home. "The internet is a ...
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Social Innovation Putting Hope in the Hands of Kenya’s Starving
As the severe drought continues taking lives in Kenya and the rest of east Africa, Concern Worldwide is turning to social innovation to try to save lives. The international humanitarian organisation has created a programme that enables people to make cash transfers to buy food. It is hoped this initiative will help 20,000 people over the next five months. Earlier this year, Concern began noticing a disturbin...
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Facing Up to the Global Water Crisis
With rising population growth and changes in the earth’s climate putting stress on the consumable 1% of the planet’s water , the global water crisis risks becoming a source of cross-border conflict. Sub-Saharan Africa is especially vulnerable given its dry climate, which is exacerbated b...
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile Money Operators Prepare to Roll Out Financial Services
Shut out by the formal banking sector for years, the un-banked and un-served communities in Nigeria will soon gains some respite as mobile money operators are preparing to roll out innovative solutions geared towards providing financial inclusion in the coming months. This is following the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) recent issuance of operating licenses to 11 mobile firms. The firms include: Fortis Money, UBA/Afripay, GTBank Mobile Money, Pagatech, eTranzact, Monetise, Earthole...
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Indego Africa: Lifting Africa’s Women Out of Poverty
Promoting access and opporutnity for business-minded African women [ Video ] ...
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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