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19 Ways We Innovate

Reporting in collaboration with Yadira Gutierrez.

More than 800 staff members in 47 countries cast a vote for their favorite innovation. Which is your favorite?

A simple solution makes a big impact for Ethiopia's farming families. Photo: Erin Gray/Mercy Corps.

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19 Ways We Innovate: Winners Announced

And the winner of Mercy Corps’ internal innovations competition is...(drumroll, please)... Ethiopia! Despite—or very well perhaps because—of the massive drought that's hit the Horn of Africa, community members and Mercy Corps staff have hit on a solution that's both simple and cheap.

Women in Kenya drag jerry cans of water 4 kilometers through a parched landscape. Photo by Erin Gray/Mercy Corps.

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The East Africa drought: forecasting for humanitarian aid

How bad is the drought and famine in East Africa? Climate scientist Simon Mason elaborates in this video interview.

Reliance on quality produce from Africa prompted Albert Heijn to undertake aid projects. Photo: Erik Mandell for MercyCorps

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Aid for profit? Dutch supermarket giant says ‘sure’

A Dutch company looks to combine international aid with corporate profit, according to allAfrica.com.

PepsiCo and Cambridge University recently unveiled the i-crop, a web-based system that could reduce agricultural water waste by 50 percent. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacesquirrel/83995462/">Photo:zekasaur (flickr)</a>

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PepsiCo’s I-Crop Refreshes Water Waste Systems

This article was republished in The Christian Science Monitor.

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Turning air into water

Even in the driest of deserts, there’s a hidden water source: the air.

The Ganges River Delta, in Pakistan, could be feeding a lot more people. Photo: <a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/lunarandplanetaryinstitute/5039101579/”> Lunar Planetary Institute (Flickr)</a>

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Why we have enough water

This article was republished by The Christian Science Monitor.

Could the meat you eat one day be born in this? Photo:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29388462@N06/5434154393/sizes/m/in/photostream/">chesbayprogram (flickr)</a>

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Test-Tube Meat: Could it Feed the World One Day?

Historically, meat has been for the world’s rich. Lab-grown meat could change that forever—while helping solve the environmental and resource dilemmas of the future.

The drought this year has reduced China's normal rainfall by 40 to 60 percent. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fepigio/142166045/sizes/m/in/photostream/">Photo: otrocalpe (flickr)</a>

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Raising Prices Means Reducing Waste: Peter Orszag on Chinese Water

Crisis is lurking on the world's most valuable commodity: water. The answer, a former U.S. official says, is raising its price.

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Piles of Problems Make the Gates Foundation Rethink our Most Useful Invention: The Toilet

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Hans Rosling Animates Last 200 Years of World History

What do you get when you combine 120,000 data points measuring 200 years of income and life expectancy data for 200 countries with the creative genius of global health expert Hans Rosling? This. Watch.

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Restoring Eden

In the early 1990s Saddam Hussein drained what biblical scholars believe to be the Garden of Eden. With the water went the people, known as the Ma’dan, and their way of life. Now, Iraqi-American hydraulic engineer Dr.

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