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Leadership, Organizing and Action – Women & Subsistence Mining in Medellín, Colombia

Fall 2018 D-Lab: Gender and Develpment students Anne Thibault (left), an alumna of the Harvard Kennedy School), and Susana Tort (center) who completed her masters degree at MIT in Integrated Design Management in June, and Colombian miner Marta Cecilia Mesia Gomez (right).

Blog | Aug 28, 2019 | Anne Thibault

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Leadership, Organizing and Action – Women & Subsistence Mining in Medellín, Colombia

The Future Looks Bright – a Spotlight on our Top 3 epAward2019 Winners

Picture: Nathalie von Siemens and Rolf Huber present the 1st place award to Sebastian Groh of SOLshare

Blog | Aug 27, 2019 | Siemens Stiftung

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The Future Looks Bright – a Spotlight on our Top 3 epAward2019 Winners

Seeds of Silicon: Internet of Things for Smallholder Agriculture

Left: Farmer Emmanuel Biketi, Horticulture Manager at Kikaboni Farm in Olooloitikosh, Kenya with an Upande temperature and relative humidity IoT device. Right: Drip irrigated vegetable cultivation at Napuu 1 Drip Irrigation Scheme in Lodwar, Kenya.

Publication | Aug 26, 2019 | Anish Paul Antony, Jennifer Lu, Daniel Sweeney

Seeds of Silicon: Internet of Things for Smallholder Agriculture

Here’s how we solve the planet’s food waste problem

Celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott at the launch of the campaign "Love Food, Hate Waste," which found that the UK is throwing away a third of all food bought in the country. David Parry - PA Images / PA Images via Getty Images

News | Aug 21, 2019 | Maddie Stone

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Here’s how we solve the planet’s food waste problem

Technology In The Developing World

Production facility for the Makaa Stove and employees of Appropriate Energy Saving Technologies. Soroti, Uganda. 2015. Photo: Megha Hegde

News | Aug 14, 2019 | Harald Quintus-Bosz

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Technology In The Developing World

Chasing Impact in Kenya’s Housing Sector

 Kwangu Kwako welcomed a delegation from Slum Dwellers International to its facility last month.

Blog | Aug 07, 2019 | Geoffrey Tam, MIT D-Lab M&E Fellow

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Chasing Impact in Kenya’s Housing Sector

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