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J-WAFS awards commercialization grants to develop technologies for water and food solutions News | Sep 07, 2017 | Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab MIT News J-WAFS awards commercialization grants to develop technologies for water and food solutions
The Surprising Place That Promotes Women Entrepreneurs Better Than Silicon Valley: Female founders in Africa are creating businesses that are innovative and have social impact, too News | Sep 07, 2017 | Lexi Novitske and Dale Mathias Entrepreneur The Surprising Place That Promotes Women Entrepreneurs Better Than Silicon Valley: Female founders in Africa are creating businesses that are innovative and have social impact, too
Inclusive Recycling: Five Building Blocks for Implementing Systems in Low & Middle Income Countries Publication | Sep 01, 2017 | Libby McDonald, Dana Gorodetsky, Lucia Fernandez, Saskia Rotshuizen Inclusive Recycling: Five Building Blocks for Implementing Systems in Low & Middle Income Countries
D-Lab Gender & Development: Course and travel opportunity updates! Blog | Aug 31, 2017 | D-Lab Instructors Libby McDonald & Kate Mytty D-Lab Gender & Development: Course and travel opportunity updates!
Good Nature Agro targets 5,000 smallholder farmers News | Aug 29, 2017 | Africa Report on Business Africa Report on Business Good Nature Agro targets 5,000 smallholder farmers
Bleeding-edge innovation makes periods go green News | Aug 28, 2017 | Himanshi Dhawan The Times of India Bleeding-edge innovation makes periods go green