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January 27, 2023
How Supporting Women Farmers Can Ease Asia’s Food Security Crisis
Women need to be engaged in designing, implementing, and monitoring climate-smart agriculture. With a food crisis and climate change affecting millions of people in Asia and the Pacific, equipping female farmers with technology, support, and resources, is a win for women and food security overall
January 27, 2023
Leaning into Resilience: Three Ways Small and Growing Agriculture Businesses Have Navigated Global Crises – And How Investors Can Support Them
The past few years have presented challenges to small and growing businesses (SGBs), especially in emerging markets. These businesses have struggled with pandemic-driven logistics and supply chain issues
January 27, 2023
Climate-Smart Supply Chains: Lessons for COP27 from Fairtrade
Living at the forefront of the climate crisis, farmers and workers in low-income countries are uniquely positioned to address climate challenges. Yet with many struggling to earn a living income or wage
January 27, 2023
How Farmer Segmentation Can Strengthen Supply Chains and Better Support Smallholder Farmers
In a new report from the Farmer Income Lab and Business Fights Poverty, we provide more information about Farmer segmentation and how procuring companies and smallholder farmers can benefit from a segmentation approach
January 2, 2023
Leaning into Resilience: Three Ways Small and Growing Agriculture Businesses Have Navigated Global Crises – And How Investors Can Support Them
The past few years have presented challenges to small and growing businesses (SGBs), especially in emerging markets….
January 2, 2023
Monetising carbon credits: How Indian farmers can benefit
The Energy Conservation (Amendment) Bill, 2022, which was introduced and passed in the Lok Sabha on August 8, incorporated the aim of developing the domestic carbon market….
January 2, 2023
Leave No One Behind: Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices Boost Sustainable Productivity Growth for Farmers in Mozambique
The central region of Mozambique has experienced a decline in agricultural production in recent years. Drought, flooding, and strong winds….
January 2, 2023
Five ways process evaluation is helping us evaluate an aquaculture project in Bangladesh
Integrating mixed-methods approaches with impact evaluations like process evaluations and implementation studies has been in practice for a while, and for very good reasons. In this blog….
November 18, 2022
New possibilities for value-added agricultural advisory services through data sharing and integration
The value of data and content integration, and their potential to enhance the value of existing agricultural…
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GST 2.0 and Tax Cuts: Can They Make Growth Fairer and Greener?
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Reimagining Sports in CSR: From Tokenism to a Vehicle for Multiplying Impact
In 2023–24, Indian companies spent about ₹1,396 crore of their CSR budgets on sports — just 4% of the total ₹34,909 crore Indian corporates spent on CSR that year. Most of the rest went to edu..
Interactive SHG Map of India: 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups are spread across 27 States and 6 UTs in India
Under the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), India has 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups (SHGs) spread across 27 states and 6 Union Territories. Each of these small, self-governed, and peer-co..