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Ben Casnocha: The Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
It is unfair that where you happen to be born matters so much to your potential success in life. Warren Buffet has said that he won the "ovarian lottery" by being born in the United States -- had he been...
Bush Radio 89.5 fm Newsroom (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Ofentse Mokae 23 November 2009 Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe says he is satisfied with the positive results made by government's poverty alleviation project in southern Free State. Over the weekend Motlanthe visited poverty stricken communities of Donkerhoek and Generations in Jacobsdal to monitor the progress of the anti-poverty campaign launched in the area last year. The War on Poverty is...
ONE (Free subscription) | yesterday
Earlier this month, I attended the First Annual No Limits Public Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. No Limits, a non-profit issues-based, education foundation uses new technology and social networking to encourage an exchange of ideas on a range of domestic and international policy challenges. Secretary Hillary Clinton gave the keynote address and spoke passionately about [...]
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe is satisfied with the positive results yielded by government's poverty alleviation project in southern Free State.
India Development Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Enrique Penalosa, President of Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) gave a talk in Anna University on Friday (November 20, 2009) on how the Chennai transport system could be transformed so as to make the city ‘livable’ and the citizens ‘happy’. Penalosa, former mayor of Bogota, began the talk by stating that a city that is good for its children, the elderly,...
ONE (Free subscription) | yesterday
We’ve written before on the ONE Blog about TOMS Shoes, so I thought readers might be interested in this great editorial that founder Blake Mycoskie has in the Huffington Post. He talks at length about the mission behind TOMS Shoes, and how he ended up where he is today. Excerpts below, full piece here The first [...]
ONE (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The Washington Post has an interesting profile of the planned construction of an enormous wind farm in Kenya’s Chalbi Desert. The hope is that the project will help boost energy supplies in the region. Excerpts below, full piece here Kenya is one of the continent’s greenest countries, with nearly three-quarters of its power coming from hydroelectric [...]
ONE (Free subscription) | yesterday
As part of the Living Proof Project, the Gates Foundation recently cut this great video highlighting some of the great successes in global health over the years. Check it out, and pass it on:
ONE (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mercy Corps recently commemorated their 30th anniversary and founder Dan O’Neill has a great piece on the circumstances that led to the organization’s inception. Excerpt below, full post here A friend recently shook my hand vigorously saying, “Congratulations on celebrating Mercy Corps’ 30th anniversary!” I thanked him and went on to say that I would phrase his [...]
ONE (Free subscription) | yesterday
On November 11, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria wrapped up its 20th Board meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Dr. Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund, reviewed the progress of the Global Fund, noting that it has disbursed $8.8 billion to more than 620 grants in 138 countries. [...]
ONE (Free subscription) | yesterday
AllAfrica.com: Experts Seek Inclusion of Agriculture in Climate Talks More than 60 prominent agricultural scientists and leaders have decried the almost total absence of agriculture in the climate talks, warning that the climate deal to be reached next month could lead to widespread famine and food shortages in the years ahead. Signatories of a statement issued [...]
ONE (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last Thursday, Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA) introduced the New Partnership for Trade Development Act (H.R.4101), which extends duty-free access to the US market to all least developing countries (LDCs). Sub-Saharan African countries have been expressing concerns that they would be disadvantaged if preferences are extended to other LDCs – they have argued their apparel sectors [...]
National Review Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
‘Y ou don’t have to hit us in the head with a baseball bat too many times,” says Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, “before we start to think you’re doing it on purpose.” And so Governor Perry has a question for the Obama administration: Why ship thousands and thousands of illegal aliens from places as far away as San Diego, Calif., and Nogales, Ariz., all the way down to...
ONE (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Over 400 representatives from ministries of health, donor countries, civil society and the global vaccine industry gathered in Hanoi, Vietnam this week for the GAVI Alliance’s Partnership Forum. GAVI (formerly the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations) will celebrate its 10th Anniversary in 2010, making this month a good time to take stock of progress [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
• Europe's commitment to tackling poverty questioned • Deal would slash import taxes from Latin America Baroness Ashton, Brussels' new foreign policy chief, was accused yesterday of abandoning Europe's commitment to tackle poverty, as African and Caribbean governments reacted furiously to a proposed deal to end the 16 year "banana wars". Ashton, who is currently European Trade...
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Eileen Murphy | 22/04/2009
Generations of African rural communities have used locally grown plant extracts and oils for nutritional, medicinal and cosmetic purposes. One such plant product is marula oil, which is extracted from the fruit kernels of the marula tree, native to southern Africa. Previously unheard of outside of Africa, the oil is becoming increasingly popular because of its superb antioxidant, nourishing and moisturising
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