By Making It on 7 April, 2011
Lucy Muchoki, CEO of the Pan African Agribusiness and Agro-Industry Consortium, tells Making It about agribusiness challenges in Africa, and how the future could look.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, agribusiness, agriculture, Angola, CEO, China, commodity, countries, credit, economic output, éducation, efficiency, empowerment, EU, European Union, export, farming, finance, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, food storage, foreign markets, future, GDP, global partnership, globalization, government, growth, import, independence, Industrial Development, infrastructure, investment, IT, jobs, labour, liberalization, Lucy Muchoki, MDGs, methodologies, Millennium Development Goals, Mozambique, opportunity, Pan African Agribusiness and Agro-Industry Consortium, PanAAC, poverty, price, private sector, rural population, science, small-scale, SME, sourcing, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania, tax, traceability, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, urban, US, water sustainability, women, young people, youth
By Making It on 8 August, 2010
With all the media hype surrounding new online lending platforms, such as Kiva.org, the time is right to ask if microfinance really is an effective poverty reduction tool
Posted in All Posts, Hot Topic | Tagged agriculture, Anis Chowdhury, Australia, debt, éducation, government, Grameen Bank, India, labour, liquidity-constrained societies, MFI, microfinance, microlender, Mohammad Yunus, Philippines, poverty, public health, rural industry, SME, sustainability, UN-DESA, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, University of Western Sydney, working poor, World Bank
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