Sustainable Development

Can you do a successful indigenous chicken business anywhere in Africa? The answer is yes. Can you reap profits from it? Of course you can? Is it complicated? Not at all but you need enough capital to start it. First things first. Most farmers fail in this sector because they fail to plan.If you fail […]

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Picked from:  empowering people. Network By Carola Schwank – Head of Empowering People Network (EPN) How do you know that your business is ready to expand? Presenting a business concept for expansion might appear as the most daunting task for a social entrepreneur. Especially if you are a woman coming from one of the remotest pockets of

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The 5Ps of Impact Adopted: By Tasha Seitz and Priya Parrish The 5Ps of Impact: A Framework for Impact Investment Strategies For impact investors and businesses to generate measurable social returns, it’s critical to identify an investment strategy that specifies how the intended social outcome will be achieved. I find it helpful to use a framework that describes the

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In this post, Brian Kyed, CXO & Co-founder of Airtame delves into organizational structure and talks about how Airtame went from an engagement-growth-hacker-success-bullshit organzation to a classic marketing, sales & support orgnization that just works. By Brian Kyed, Airtame. When preparing for the new year, my partners and I look back on what has worked

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A TED Talk by Jacqueline Novogratz who is the founder of Acumen, she uses her storytelling skills in her book, The Blue Sweater, and in many of her talks about changing the way the world tackles global poverty.  

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Global Warming of 1.5 °C The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), meeting in Incheon, South Korea, presented a report that says that it is still possible to limit the rise in temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius. However, unprecedented transformations are needed to make this happen. An IPCC special report on the impacts of global

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The combination of Nshima and relish seems to be the only thing that most Zambians call a real meal. This is what we call Posho (Uganda), Sakoro (Ghana) and Ugali  (Kenya) along with beans and/or vegetables. Deforestation is a huge problem in Zambia (and Africa). Zambia faces huge challenges with deforestation. One of the issues is

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AfriShiners International Workshop held in Kampala, Uganda, 21.-23. June 2018 Thanks to two generous donations, the workshop in Kampala was organized and carried out by LHL board member Bernhard Müller, Eschborn. Above all, the requirements were to equip a workshop in such a way that it would be able to proceed independently with the production of clean-burning

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Household smoke may be the world’s deadliest environmental hazard Global campaigns have failed to change how poor people heat their food  SOKONE, SENEGAL | The Economist IMAGINE building a small pile of wood and kindling in the smallest room in your house, and setting fire to it. You can keep the door open, to let

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