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  • 2015
  • Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Robert Meaney and Technology for Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Renee Vuillaume
Two Valmont Industries (an international leader in infrastructure products and services) colleagues, Robert (Bob) Meaney and Richard Berkland hoped to improve the lives of small and medium-sized farmers in the developing world through modern irrigation technology. In... View Details
Keywords: Developing World; Farm; Farming; Small-scale Farmers; Agriculture; Agricultural Production; Water Management; Water; Leadership Skills; Agribusiness; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Leadership; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Ghana; Tanzania; Rwanda
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

For African farmers looking to escape poverty, honey brings sweet success

Yusuf Keshavjee (OPM 17, 1991) helps African farmers and their families escape poverty through beekeeping. He cofounded Honey Care Africa (HCA), a private-sector enterprise in Kenya that partners with local NGOs and international... View Details
  • 19 Aug 2013
  • News

Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers

on the spot, then processed, packed, and distributed the honey and related products for sale in supermarket chains. To date, the company has helped more than 9,000 small-scale beekeepers (over 45 percent of them women) and its business... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Management
  • December 2013 (Revised April 2014)
  • Case

Seeding Growth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

By: Ray Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Djordjija Petkoski
By 2013, the agricultural sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had long suffered from war, political instability, and dilapidated infrastructure. A country with 75 million inhabitants and the second lowest GDP per capita in the world in 2011, the DRC's... View Details
Keywords: National Agricultural Investment Plan (PNIA); Developing Agriculture; World Bank; Poverty Reduction; Special Economic Zones (SEZs); Small-scale Farmers; Agricultural Business Parks; Agriculture Reform; Agribusiness; Economic Growth; Infrastructure; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Congo, Democratic Republic of the
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    The Value of Advice: Evidence from Mobile-Phone Based Agricultural Extension

    This paper evaluates the role of mobile phone-based advice in improving managerial practices of small-scale cotton farmers in Gujarat, India.  Demand for the service, “Avaaj Otalo,” is strong, even among farmers with very low levels of education. The service... View Details

    • November 2002 (Revised March 2006)
    • Case

    ApproTEC Kenya: Technologies to Fight Poverty and Create Wealth

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan
    ApproTEC markets a range of technologies to improve the income of subsistence farmers and other small-scale entrepreneurs in East Africa. Having achieved considerable success in its first eight years, the two founders/entrepreneurs are seeking ways to scale the impact... View Details
    Keywords: Social Enterprise; Development Economics; Poverty; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Kenya; Africa
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    • November 2005 (Revised March 2006)
    • Case

    Nestle's Milk District Model: Economic Development for a Value-Added Food Chain and Improved Nutrition

    By: Ray A. Goldberg and Kerry Herman
    Nestle is the largest milk firm in the world. For over a century, it has developed a milk model procurement program that improved the well-being of the small-scale farmer and the ultimate consumer. Can it partner with other firms and institutions to make even greater... View Details
    Keywords: Development Economics; Value Creation; Programs; Partners and Partnerships; Food and Beverage Industry
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    Marketing Complex Financial Products in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Rainfall Insurance in India

    By: Sarthak Gaurav, Shawn A. Cole and Jeremy Tobacman
    Recent financial liberalization in emerging economies has led to the rapid introduction of new financial products. Lack of experience with financial products, low levels of education, and low financial literacy may slow adoption of these products. This article reports... View Details
    Keywords: Literacy; Insurance; Marketing; Decisions; Demand and Consumers; Financial Instruments; Emerging Markets; Education; Personal Finance; Agribusiness; Developing Countries and Economies; Innovation and Invention; Gujarat
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    • 15 Nov 2018
    • Book

    Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

    JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness
    • 17 Apr 2024
    • Blog Post

    New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures

    Rehydrate: Transforming water access for DoD, disaster relief, and global communities plagued by water insecurity Bagh-e - Mujtaba Khalid (HKS), Hasan Nomani, Ehtisham Hammed - Bagh-e is an app-based solution that provides digital credit to View Details
    • 01 Mar 2004
    • News

    A Case for Coffee

    grown by 400,000 small-scale farmers owning fewer than ten acres of land. After much back and forth about the numbers in the case, the difficulties of working with geographically separated small farmers, the... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 01 Mar 2025
    • News

    Heartland

    nutrient-dense part of the animal, Lambert explains, and a fantastic source of vitamin B12. “There are nine neurotransmitters running around in your brain right now that are making it possible for you to even listen to me,” she tells a group of ranchers and View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.
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    Mike Watitwa

    efforts elsewhere. What is your favorite childhood memory? My parents practised small-scale farming. During the holidays, they would occasionally allow my siblings and me to join other casual laborers to work their maize plantation and... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2022
    • News

    'Rooted' In Innovation

    whom are women, who average under a dollar a day per capita income. Since cassava spoils within three days of harvesting, it is traditionally used in small-scale family cooking. Roughly 40 percent of the annual harvest is lost due to... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg
    • 01 Mar 2014
    • News

    The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

    Photography by Jason Andrew Ibrahim Mustapha grows maize in Katsina Fulani, a village of mud-brick houses topped by rusted corrugated roofs in northern Nigeria. Like millions of farmers in his country, Mustapha is a "smallholder"; he and... View Details
    Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
    • 20 Feb 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: February 20, 2008

      Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In much of the developing world, many View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 31 Jan 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: Jan. 31

    literacy may slow adoption of these products. This article reports on a field experiment that offered an innovative new financial product, rainfall insurance, to 600 small-scale farmers in India. A... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
    • 30 Jun 2020
    • Book

    Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

    The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 24 Jul 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: July 24, 2007

    Nestle is the largest milk firm in the world. For over a century, it has developed a milk model procurement program that improved the well-being of the small-scale farmer and the ultimate consumer. Can it... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace