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Global Ideas News Brief: Financing coffee + The Pope's capitalism commentary

Financing coffee, developing countries' thirst for energy and the Pope's capitalism. Staff Picks: What we're reading this week.

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Value Chains

5 ways to support farming irrigation in sub-saharan Africa: Beyond technology

Big government-funded irrigation projects in Sub-Saharan Africa are often expensive and inaccessible, so farmers are taking matters into their own hands.

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3 vital factors that really matter in building resilience

When a combination of crises struck Somalia in 2010, famine left millions in need of emergency assistance. But not all. We wanted to know why.

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Mercy Corps mobilizes emergency response team to Philippines

Mercy Corps is mobilizing a team of emergency responders, including experts in water, sanitation and logistics, into the areas devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan.

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Global Ideas News Brief: Managing disaster risks + the globalization conversation

Innovations to change sustainable industries, how natural disasters keep people poor and the new globalization. Staff Picks: What we're reading this week.

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Sustainable Energy

Nom, Nom, Nom: The Earth Will Eat Itself

We're plundering the earth’s natural resources at an incredibly fast rate--so fast that the planet cannot keep pace. But innovations and investments in renewable energy offer a glimmer of hope.

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Value Chains

How to make markets work for the poor--and measure the results

Despite local demand for hay, Kenyan dairy farmers face milk shortages due to lack of quality supply. But instead of handing over the hay, why not bring the hay market to the farmers?

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Mobile Technology

Testing the future of emergency assistance

A quiet revolution is underway to streamline the delivery of assistance to people in crisis — using the most prolific technology in the world. And it could help people become more financially literate and secure for the long-run.

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Value Chains

Developing the tractor-for-hire business in post-conflict northern Uganda

As opportunity grows in northern Uganda after 20 years of violent conflict, farmers are building back and reinvesting in the land. But a lack of tractors could keep the region hungry.

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Financial Inclusion

A penny saved is two pennies earned for women in savings groups

In May, Oxfam America and Freedom from Hunger published the largest study to date on the impact of community-based savings groups. And the findings are promising.

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Financial Inclusion

Fiji students are about to become the world's savviest savers

Fiji is leading the world in money management education, by exposing almost 200,000 students to savings and budgeting skills starting next month.

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Social Enterprise

Quotable: Microinsurance penetration set to double by 2020

By 2020, over 1 billion people in poor countries will be covered under microinsurance.

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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

Africa is finally booming, but don’t break out the champagne yet

Africans are celebrating levels of economic growth and political stability that were unthinkable just 10 years ago, but without the appropriate economic and political reforms, the continent could quickly relapse.

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Value Chains

Natural disasters cost corporations $400 billion in 2011, UN says

Environmental disasters not only cripple smallholder farmers, they also mean high costs for the corporations at the buying end of the supply chain. A forthcoming UN report will show just how detrimental those costs can be.