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FarmFolks have created a software that helps farmers with critical knowledge throughout the crop cycle, from the time the soil is prepared...

Practical Action, alongside partners Hystra and BoP Innovation Center, launched on November 21st the Global Distributors Collective (GDC), which aims to help...

Superbug infections could cost the lives of around 2.4 million people in Europe, North America and Australia over the next 30 years...

In order to meet its goal to use 100% organic cotton by 2025, global Luxury group Kering recognized that full awareness of...

2017 Vera Fellowship Vera Fellows are full-time employees of the company and have the title of Associate Consultant. As a Fellow, you’ll...

An article on the state of unorganized agriculture in India makes a case for building out a more robust food retail supply...

Founded in 2007, Educate Girls (EG) is a non-governmental organization that holistically tackles issues at the root of gender inequality in India’s...

A Forbes article discusses how Jaipur Foot, a non-profit social enterprise that provides artificial limbs to physically challenged people living below the...

Indian conglomerate Tata Group continues to develop products and services for low-income markets. The company, which has already developed the least expensive...

Tata Housing Development Company, India’s leading real estate development company, and Arvind Limited, the largest integrated lifestyle apparel and textiles company in...

In an article in the Hindu Business Line, Shashanka Bhide from the National Council of Applied Economic Research in India, discusses how...

Deloitte in India appears optimistic about growth in the mobile value added services market. With rapid growth expected to continue, industry players...

A study by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India showed that only 8-10% of rural Indian households hold life...

Mumbai-based consumer goods company Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (HUL) signed an MOU with Indian MFI Village Financial Services Pvt. Ltd. (VFS) to promote...

U.S. Fortune 500 consumer goods company, Proctor & Gamble Co., has started production and distribution of The Gillete Guard, a low-cost razor,...

The 50 year-old Indian handloom textiles and apparel retailer Fab India recently awarded approximately 700 employees with shares in the company. Established...

Financial service business, Shriram Group, has received a $15 million investment from LeapFrog Investment, a $135 million social investment financial services fund,...

A CNBC article discusses India’s largest and fastest growing consumer market – bottom of the pyramid (BOP) consumers. According to India’s National...

The Centre for Social Development in Jaipur, Rajasthan, provides vocational training and non-formal education to low-income women in order to teach them...

handygo Technologies and Uninor have developed and recently launched “Wellness World,” a health tool for customers throughout India, providing health advice via...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is proposing investment of $10-$15 million in Aavishkaar India II Company Ltd., a fund that will finance...

The World Gold Council is promoting gold-linked microfinance savings schemes in collaboration with Muthoot Pappachan Group and IFMR Holdings’ Kshetriya Gramin Financial...

The Reserve Bank of India has recently requested that the country’s commercial banks scale their services so as to reach 72,000 villages...

To help bolster employment in rural India, the Tamil Nadu government has developed the Rural Business Process Outsourcing Policy for 2010. The...

Evidence of greater demand for organic produce is evident in the increasing number of retailers working to help farmers become certified organic...

An ABC News interview with Cynthia Koenig from New York highlights the Wello Water Wheel, a 25 gallon drum used to transport...