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Water partners: Teaming up to solve shortages

Mercy Corps works with a private company, Xylem, to address urgent water needs in some of the toughest places on Earth. Why work with a partner?

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Why the process is the program: Building peace in northern Uganda

In the dry, northern Karamoja region of Uganda, 50 years of humanitarian aid has left the region entrenched in a culture of dependency. Underlying long-term peace and food security is a need for strong local governance, but donors often don’t find that as exciting as emergency relief.

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Beyond Fair Trade: Portland roaster and coffee farmers make a family

At a time when fair trade certification was a hallmark of the coffee industry, Nossa Familia Coffee established a different model. To learn more about how the small company is fair without ‘fair trade,’ Global Envision visited the family's Portland, Ore., roastery.

PROFITING FROM POOP: HOW SELLING HUMAN WASTE COULD REVOLUTIONIZE SANITATION

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Reflections from Davos: Mercy Corps CEO to private sector

Mercy Corps' CEO reflects on partnerships—foundations and companies whose portfolios span emerging markets, fragile states and hard-to-reach places: "We’re facing significant obstacles together, and our strategic partnerships are shifting the way solutions to complex social problems will be designed in years to come."

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Profiting from poop: How selling human waste could revolutionize sanitation

Dealing with human waste has become a health crisis in many poor communities, but residents of a Kenyan slum have found a solution that turns poop into profit.

THE CURSE ON GUM ARABIC IN SUDAN

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The curse on gum arabic in Sudan

Gum arabic is a little ingredient with a big footprint in food and medicine around the world. Despite high demand, its producers face an incredible spread of challenges.

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Growing KFC: When exploiting markets may exploit farmers

Kentucky Fried Chicken is expanding in Africa and local farmers could benefit. But the aid organizations connecting farmers to the company may actually be setting them up for disaster.

POMEGRANATES VS POPPIES: BUILDING FOOD MARKETS TO FIGHT THE DRUG TRADE

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Pomegranates vs Poppies: Building food markets to fight the drug trade

The crops used to produce most of the world's illegal drugs come from a small number of weak states. Can providing impoverished farmers there with alternative crops -- and the markets to sell them in -- undermine the drug trade?

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Quotable: Bill Gates debunks 3 myths about the world's poor

Bill and Melinda Gates believe that by 2035 there will be almost no poor countries. This year they warn that pessimistic viewpoints may harm the world's chances.

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Is farming rice differently the key to ending hunger? India tries it

While the government lays out a plan to stockpile and distribute subsidized grains to feed the hungry, a new way of planting and farming rice across India has proven dramatic success.

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Zimbabwe case study: Lessons from a buyer's experience of mobile money

Last August, small-scale farmers in rural Zimbabwe were preparing to harvest their crop of chilies just like they do every year. But this harvest would be like none other.