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Monthly Sector Scan

Key Happenings, Insights, Reports,
and Latest Events carefully selected for you!


OCTOBER, 2022

Dear Partner,

We are back with our monthly inclusive growth sector scan!

In this edition, we have handpicked 11 such latest blogs, articles, and news from 5 different sectors viz. Sustainable Agriculture, Clean Energy, Clean Cookstoves, Livelihoods and Nutrition. Hope you enjoy reading them as much as we did.

Our secondary research on Clean Cookstoves guided us to this insightful blog at NextBillion which highlights the importance of investing in clean cooking to stop a climate catastrophe. To find out more insightful pieces, you can browse through our sector news section.

The Responsible Digitization of Small Entrepreneurs in Rural India report, you will find in this edition was published last month by Better Than Cash Alliance as a synthesis of lessons from digitizing orders and payments for Hindustan Unilever's Shakti Amma retail network. Re-emerging World was part of program consortium as the knowledge partner lead from India and has led the development and documentation of the case studies for the report.

You can download four additional thought-provoking reports from this edition. The Welthungerhilfe & Concern Worldwide's Global Hunger Index 2022 report presents comprehensive measures and tracks hunger at the global, regional, and country levels. The World Bank's Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report 2022: State of The Sector provides insights into key trends in the off-grid solar sector over the past two years, including business models, technologies, competitive landscape, and funding. The Global Mangrove Alliance's The State of the World's Mangroves 2022 report features the latest information on what we know about mangroves and what's being done to support these magnificent habitats. Finally, the Shell Foundation report Driving Growth and Improved Business Performance: The opportunity of investing in gender-inclusive strategies highlights how gender inclusion can be adopted to address business challenges and reveal new opportunities for growth, innovation, and efficiencies.

Do not forget to mark your calendars for the upcoming events by IFPRI, FinEquity, CGAP, and World Resources Institute (WRI). You can find the registration details below.

We are always looking for your feedback which can help us serve you better. Write us at dialogue@re-emergingworld.com.

See you next month!

Best Regards,
Team Re-emerging World

New Reports Launched
Read and get inspired from the latest Sector Reports
Responsible Digitization of Small Entrepreneurs in Rural India
- by Better Than Cash Alliance (BTCA) and HUL

The report presents key insights and opportunities from HUL's B2B Shakti digitization program to implement the UNs Principles for Responsible Digital Payments.
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Global Hunger Index 2022
- by Welthungerhilfe & Concern Worldwide

The index comprehensively measures and tracks hunger at the global, regional, and country levels.
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Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report 2022: State of The Sector
- by The World Bank Group

The report provides insights into key trends in the off-grid solar sector over the past two years, including business models, technologies, competitive landscape, and funding.
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The State of the World's Mangroves 2022
- by The Global Mangrove Alliance (GMA)

The SWM provides the very latest information on what we know about mangroves and what's being done to support these magnificent habitats.
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Driving Growth and Improved Business Performance: The opportunity of investing in gender inclusive strategies
- by Shell Foundation

The report shows that gender inclusion can be adopted to address business challenges and reveal new opportunities for growth, innovation, and efficiencies.
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Sector News
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
International Rural Women's Day 2022: Reaching women farmers with information on climate smart agriculture
The International Day of Rural Women, celebrated every year on October 15, focuses attention on their essential role in producing food and driving rural development. Unfortunately, many obstacles also prevent them from excelling in those capacities....
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OPINION: Time to scale-up nature-based solutions to forge a low-carbon and climate-resilient future for India
Driving through Tehri district in Dev Bhoomi Uttarakhand this summer, the sight of smoke billowing from the pine forest dotted the cloud line. Locals informed that the blaze started in the first week of April and spread quickly....
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Clean Energy
How Local Governments Can Advance Community Solar for Low- and Moderate-Income Households
Community solar projects, which allow participating subscribers to receive credits on their utility bills, can be powerful forces for fighting both climate change and inequity.....
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How open-source data can improve finance access for renewable energy projects
In order to provide affordable energy for all while taking urgent action to combat climate change, renewable energy projects will have to ramp up rapidly on a global scale. Access to financing is still the main challenge.....
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Community-Owned Solar Grid Brings Electricity and Employment Opportunities in Indonesia
Mata Redi, a small village on the Indonesian island Sumba, recently became home to a solar and battery mini-grid that's not only providing electricity for the first time to 220 households, but is serving as an example of the possibilities for accessible renewable energy in Indonesia.....
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Clean Cookstoves
To Stop Climate Catastrophe, Invest in Clean Cooking: Exploring the Lack of Funding - And Signs of Progress - In the Industry
As the past few years have shown, summer in the 21st century brings a new annual reality: devastating heat waves and wildfires....
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Evaluating the impact of pay-as-you-go LPG on Kenyan lives - Shell Foundation
Co-funded by UK aid from the UK Government and in partnership with portfolio partner PayGo Energy, The Busara Centre conducted research examining the impact of PayGo energy on its customers in Kenya.....
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Livelihoods
How to preserve forest biodiversity without losing livelihoods
Loss of forest biodiversity can be stopped without disrupting livelihoods - if actions are taken to halt and reverse deforestation, combat illegal and unregulated forest activities and prevent the conversion of natural forests into forest plantations, say experts....
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Embracing PURE technologies as a key solution towards improved livelihoods, economic growth and resilience to climate change for our consumers
Global weather patterns continue to be increasingly unpredictable, and the urgency of climate change adaptation and resilience accelerates....
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Nutrition
ADB Plans $14 Billion to Ease Food Crisis, Promote Long-Term Food Security in Asia and the Pacific
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today announced plans to provide at least $14 billion over 2022-2025 in a comprehensive program of support to ease a worsening food crisis in Asia and the Pacific, and improve long-term....
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An Overlooked Path to Health Impact: Four Tools to Increase Consumption Frequency for Beneficial Consumer Goods - NextBillion
Fast-moving consumer goods companies traditionally focus their marketing and distribution efforts on maximizing the penetration of their products....
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