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Crops resilient to climate change are especially important to farmers in developing countries. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cimmyt/5210265334/">CIMMYT (Flickr)</a>.

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Value Chains

As climate becomes a moving target, 'virtual crops' aim for the future

Climate change is threatening crop survival. Some researchers believe the solution lies in "virtual crops."

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Social Enterprise

Female tech entrepreneurs in Gaza

Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jm999uk/182318534/sizes/m/in/photostream/">johnmuk (flickr)</a>

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Mobile technologies improving lives around the world

Many places are jumping straight from paper records to mobile information because they are getting cellphone towers before Internet connections or even traditional phone lines.

Environmental enginnering is making clean drinking water more accessible and affordable to those who need it. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/julien_harneis/589718393/sizes/n/in/photostream/">Julien Harneis (flickr)</a>

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Environmental engineering pioneers innovative clean water sources

This article was republished by The Christian Science Monitor

Medic Mobile works with the simplest of cell phones to help provide health care to those far away from their nearest hospital. Photo: Fabiola Coupet/Mercy Corps.

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Medic Mobile turns cell phones into lifelines

In rural communities around the world, the virtual doctor is in.

Cellphones are transforming the way in which aid workers are tackling the transmission of infectious diseases in Haiti. Photo:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/41309185@N03/5497953826/sizes/l/in/photostream/">ambafranceht (flickr)</a>

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A dose of cell-phone surveillance helps aid workers save lives

In Haiti, aid workers may have saved thousands of lives by tracking the cell phones of displaced citizens.

Glasses were one of the first products to use microconsignment, which required training on reading eye charts and providing eye care. Photo:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshsamson/3702875851/sizes/m/in/photostream/">GoRun26 (flickr)</a>

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Microconsignment: The Microfinance Alternative

Chances are you're pretty familiar with microfinance. But have you ever heard of microconsignment? Microconsignment is similar to microfinance in a lot of ways, but with a unique twist.

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Ubisense Tracker May Revolutionize Livestock Industry

An article in Business Weekly highlights a tracking device developed by Ubisense, Cambridge University's location technology specialist in collaboration w

Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adman_as/428175552/">adman_as (flickr)</a>

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Counting Brazil's Uncounted

How can you help the world's neediest people when you don't even know they exist?

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Brave New World: Gulf Seeks Bold Science Initiatives

The Gulf States are investing in radical initiatives to strengthen science, but results are not guaranteed.

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Countries Must Cross the Digital Divide

Despite the digital divide, technology continues to play a vital role in helping countries develop.

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Technology and Human Rights

Today's Christian Science Monitor takes a look at the important role statistics play in prosecuting human rights abuses.

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Can Crops be Climate-Proofed?

Climate change threatens food crops across the world. Now scientists are re-focusing their efforts on crop resilience, rather than yields.

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Harnessing Design and Innovation to Fight Poverty

A new trend in employing innovative technology and design to improve the lives of the world's poor is gaining much attention—but it's not without its critics.

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A "Desert Refrigerator" Improves Lives in Nigeria

Rolex Award winner Mohammad Bah Abba's Pot-in-Pot cooling system is helping subsistence farmers in northern Nigeria by reducing food spoilage and thus increasing their income

Mohammed Bah Abba

design for the other 90%

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