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5 October 2017
Prakash Maharjan’s family had been selling ice cream for over four decades, but unhappy with doing “business as usual,” he had...
25 September 2017
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Sept. 25, 2017 — Three teams from Jamaica copped the top spots in the recently held virtual PitchIT Caribbean...
11 September 2017
The Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC) was founded in 2012 to provide incubation services to local small and medium...
6 September 2017
Companies like Hershey’s – one of the world’s largest chocolate producers – face several challenges when working with smallholder...
24 August 2017
Farming is a tough business. Growing up on a rural Kenyan farm, Samuel Rigu saw firsthand how the acidity of the expensive,...
16 August 2017
On a windy rooftop in Casablanca, Morocco, Karim El Alami smiles as he looks out over the city. For years, Karim has dreamt of...
7 August 2017
High up in the Himalayas, where yak have roamed the mountainsides for centuries, generation after generation of Nepalese have...
21 July 2017
If you drive west of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the soil turns into a deep russet red, and the terrain unfurls, undulating into...
20 July 2017
Biniyam Tesfaye was working as an electrical power engineer in Addis Ababa in 2014 when he came upon a colleague one day weeping...
7 July 2017
While over 20% of Americans now shop for groceries online, in most of sub-Saharan Africa, the average household still buys...