When I lived in New York, people were always talking about the latest new restaurant or food truck. Were you able to get reservations? Did you have time to wait in that line that spanned half a block? In the world of private investment in African agriculture, the hottest topic is public-private partnerships like the [...]

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In case you've forgotten... Mother's Day is this Sunday. Why not use this year's Mother's Day as your big chance to honor mothers all around the world? Dozens of our partner organizations, including (RED), Every Mother Counts and Shot@Life, are mobilizing around the special day to raise awareness around women's issues. Take a minute to [...]

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In case you've forgotten... Mother's Day is this Sunday. Why not use this year's Mother's Day as your big chance to honor mothers all around the world? Dozens of our partner organizations, including (RED), Every Mother Counts and Shot@Life, are mobilizing around the special day to raise awareness around women's issues. Take a minute to [...]

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The story behind our new favorite product - Bureh Belts!  When Bureh Co-Founder Dan Heyman needed a belt last minute, he didn't expect it to inspire a fashion-forward, socially conscious movement. Launched this past fall, Bureh now inspires employment and entrepreneurship across Sierra Leone, an African country otherwise lacking in self-start-up and Westernized business opportunities. [...]

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The story behind our new favorite product - Bureh Belts!  When Bureh Co-Founder Dan Heyman needed a belt last minute, he didn't expect it to inspire a fashion-forward, socially conscious movement. Launched this past fall, Bureh now inspires employment and entrepreneurship across Sierra Leone, an African country otherwise lacking in self-start-up and Westernized business opportunities. [...]

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European Voice: EU prepares for Mali conference - The EU will host a donor conference next week aimed at coordinating international efforts to help Mali overcome its security, political, and humanitarian crises. Attendees will include German Chancellor Angela Merkel, several African heads of state, and the head of the World Bank, as well as French [...]

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European Voice: EU prepares for Mali conference - The EU will host a donor conference next week aimed at coordinating international efforts to help Mali overcome its security, political, and humanitarian crises. Attendees will include German Chancellor Angela Merkel, several African heads of state, and the head of the World Bank, as well as French [...]

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Erik Charas is a campaigning journalist in Mozambique. He was recently arrested by local officials for asking government leaders difficult questions about shady deals done in Mozambique's natural resources extraction sector. Whether "Africa keeps its promise" to its people, the theme of this year's World Economic Forum in Cape Town, depends in large part on [...]

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Erik Charas is a campaigning journalist in Mozambique. He was recently arrested by local officials for asking government leaders difficult questions about shady deals done in Mozambique's natural resources extraction sector. Whether "Africa keeps its promise" to its people, the theme of this year's World Economic Forum in Cape Town, depends in large part on [...]

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After journalist-turned-agriculture activist Roger Thurow witnessed the famine in Ethiopia in 2003 first hand, he dropped everything and devoted his life to answering this mind-boggling question: Why are Africa's small farmers some of the continent's hungriest people? Kudos to Roger for not only being brave enough to ask this question, but for doing all the research to [...]

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