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Impact investment and the definining and quantifying difficulties

There still exists considerable ambiguity surrounding the ease definitions of impact investing, yet it is wrong to say that impact investing lacks integrity because of lack of definition. There are a lot of factors that lend vagueness to impact investing, the diversity of activity that impact investing encompasses, which gives […]

July 24, 2012

Food companies look at a new business model for developing countries

In an interview with MIT SMR, Paul Murphy, CEO of Valid Nutrition spoke about how for-profit companies partnering with NGOs to treat and prevent childhood malnutrition can find opportunity at the bottom of the pyramid. Read the Q&A session here.

July 24, 2012

NineSigma partners with Scientists without Borders for micronutrition packaging innovation

Scientists Without Borders and its partners had issued a challenge on NineSights(TM), NineSigma’s new open innovation social media platform of providing a reward of up to US$25,000 for novel, feasible, and cost-effective sustainable packaging ideas, or new methods of packaging for micronutrient powders (MNPs). In response, NineSigma Inc. partnered with The […]

July 24, 2012

Powdered supplement provides anaemia cure

New Zealand researchers say they have discovered a simple way to reduce the incidence of infant anaemia, which afflicts the lives of millions of children in developing countries. Mixing powdered iron and other micronutrients into food reduced rates of anaemia beyond what nutrition education alone could achieve, the researchers found […]

July 24, 2012

Crisis looming in Yemen as malnutrition rises

The United Nations Children’s Fund reports that 1 million children in Yemen are acutely malnourished, while hundreds of thousands more face starvation. Relief group Oxfam estimates that 44 per cent of the population, or about 10 million people, is going hungry. Additionally, another report from the WFP claims 5 million people […]

July 24, 2012

Banishing malnutrition – the struggle continues

This post by the Chairman of GAIN Jayaseelan Naidoo berates the failure of the world in eradicating the vicious circle of hunger and malnutrition which leads to generations of physically and mentally underdeveloped populations in countries across the world. Read more here.

July 24, 2012

The scourge of malnutrition in Africa

In the developing world, an estimated 230 million children under age five are chronically malnourished. According to GDHS (Ghana Demographic Health Survey) of 2003, 26 per cent of children in the UWR (upper west region) in Northern Ghana as underweight, over 34 per cent stunted while 11 per cent suffer […]

July 24, 2012

Kenya: New app seeks to empower farmers and women in technology

M-Farm, is an award winning agribusiness company created by three women, and it has recently launched a new mobile application that seeks to both empower rural farmers and women seeking careers in technology. While previously, M-Farm had helped farmers obtain information on price and buyers of produce, this new app […]

July 24, 2012

India: Mobile-enabled savings through the Business Correspondent Model

In this post the ability of the poorest of the poor to save is being tested. Grameen Foundation in partnership with ICICI, one of India’s commercial banks, Cashpor and Eko Technologies rolled out a programme that enabled mobile-owning customers to open accounts wherein they could save. After 9 months, it […]