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Third-place Winner: IRRI-Africa Rice
"Our vision is to reduce hunger, poverty, malnutrition, and fight climate change.
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COVID-19’s Impact on the Agri-Sharing Economy in Africa: An Interview with Hello Tractor’s Folu Okunade
COVID-19 Africa Watch talks to Folu Okunade, Chief Strategy Officer & Chief Operating Officer,
Hello Tractor, about the pandemic’s impacts on small-scale farming and the burgeoning ‘agri-sharing’ economy in Africa.
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Interview: Dr. Youssef Boutros-Ghali on COVID-19, Debt Sustainability, and Macroeconomic Policy in Africa
COVID-19 Africa Watch talks to Dr.
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Interview: Dr. Youssef Boutros-Ghali on COVID-19, Debt Sustainability, and Macroeconomic Policy in Africa
Key Takeaways
The following are a few of the main takeaways from COVID-19 Africa Watch’s conversati
on with Dr. Youssef Boutros-Ghali, the former Finance Minister of the Arab Republic of Egypt:
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Bonus-prize Winner: Kuronga
"Advancing in a thriving world is not only a theme, but it is also a promise. And it is our mission
to make good on that promise."
— Tendai Chitapi, Co-Founder and CEO of Kuronga
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FinTech in Focus - September 10, 2018
In this issue:
Industry Headlines »
Global Developments »
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Milken Institute, IFC, and The George Washington University welcome new class of Capital Markets Program scholars
Applications for the next class close on September 15, 2019
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Milken Institute Launches “Early Warning” Initiative for Emerging Pandemic Threats as COVID-19 Cases Increase
Washington, D.C. – Dec.
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The COVID-19 Pandemic is Killing Zimbabwe’s Once-thriving Cross-border Trading Networks
Policies meant to control the spread of COVID-19 have had dramatic negative impacts on Zimbabweans i
nvolved in cross-border trade, including in Mutare, a city east of Harare on the border with Mozambique.
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How COVID-19 Disrupted the Livelihoods of Farmers—and Heightened Food Insecurity—in Kenya
In Kenya, COVID-19 restrictions cut off access to agricultural inputs and sowed confusion among farm
ers. The impacts on food security—and farming livelihoods—could be severe and long-lasting.
, The confirmation of the first COVID-19 case in Kenya on March 12, 2020, set off a series of events that put the livelihoods of smallholder farmers at risk and also increased food insecurity throughout the country., During the production stage, COVID-19 restrictions cut off access to agricultural inputs and sowed confusion among farmers
, One of the first ways the pandemic affected smallholders was that restrictions on movement obstructed access to important farming inputs, including seeds.
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