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Social Enterprise

The SunWater project: advanced solar technology for poor farmers

Paul Polak, the author of Out of Poverty, is creating the world's most inexpensive solar water pump. Here's how.

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Social Enterprise

As public and private firms blur, Seoul mayor calls it perfectly natural

Social innovation is slowly spreading to virtually every sector of the global economy, according to the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s summer issue.

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Value Chains

Interview: Helping coffee farmers turns competitors into colleagues

We talk with Green Mountain Coffee about their new hunger-busting coalition with Starbucks, Counter Culture, Farmer Brothers, S&D Coffee, and Sustainable Harvest.

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Social Enterprise

Transforming solar pumping to eliminate rural poverty

What if we could harness the limitless power of the sun to carry water to the crops of millions of small poor farmers around the world?

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Social Enterprise

5 Questions: Making markets work for the poor in rural Georgia

In the Samstkhe-Javakheti region of Georgia, Mercy Corps is taking a different approach to improving the livelihoods of small-scale farmers: not through charity, but through market-based interventions.

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Financial Inclusion

Interview: Mobile services a ‘game changer’ for financial inclusion

Pairing information access with mobile cash services opens new doors for farmers and other low-income residents of developing countries.

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Value Chains

Two companies making trade fairer without 'fair trade'

When fair trade farming didn’t pay enough for one farmer to make ends meet, he started a new coffee company to take control of the production process and boost profits.

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Value Chains

Quotable: Land O'Lakes seeds economic opportunity and peace through dairy farming

How do you boost farmers in post-conflict regions like Sri Lanka? Jon Halverson of Land O'Lakes discusses how the U.S. dairy co-op blended commercial and development work in an interview on DevEx.

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Financial Inclusion

Unleashing Ugandan farmers’ potential through mobile phones

A powerful new mobile platform combining agriculture information and financial services specifically designed for farmers in Uganda is going live, helping them plow even more value from each acre.

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Value Chains

Pairing risk reduction with income generation makes communities more resilient

People earning money are more likely to protect their homes, land and life before disaster strikes, rather than only responding after traumatic events occur.

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Social Enterprise

Mercy Corps partnership ushers in the mobile age for rural Filipino farmers

Filipino rice farmers will soon pad their mobile wallets with more than just mobile money: they'll get on-demand farming advice, too.

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Social Enterprise

Mercy Corps’ Agri-Fin Mobile program goes live in Indonesia, Uganda, and Zimbabwe

A unique “bundled” mobile service is changing the way smallholder farmers conduct business.

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Value Chains

A new paradigm for food aid: Building new local food businesses

Crunch time! How a 1-year USDA grant reshaped a Bangladesh cereal market.

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Value Chains

Bolivian farmers earn a title to their land 40% faster with better technology

Unjust land holdings in developing countries create and sustain inequality, but new mobile phone technology is simplifying the land titling process and securing plots for farmers.

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Value Chains

Who says GMOs are necessary? Small farmer shatters rice record

Genetically modified organisms cover six percent more farmland every year, setting a global record of 170.3 million hectares in 2012. While some applaud GMO crops, farmers from Mexico to India are denouncing them.