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Upcoming Events | Africa
Upcoming events that will mobilize the Milken Institute’s Africa stakeholders and the Africa Leaders
Business Council include the following:
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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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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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Financial Inclusion at the Frontier: Exploring the Landscape of Digital Asset Regulation in Africa
Forty-seven percent of Nigerians reportedly use cryptocurrencies, one of the highest rates in the wo
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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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FinTech in Focus — June 18, 2024
In This Newsletter
Return of the Roaring Kitty
Spot Ethereum ETPs and Tokenization's New Momentum
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IT21 Passes the House
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FinTech in Focus October 03, 2018
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