Posts By Lisa Shipley
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1.5KCentral America and CaribbeanGender equality and food sovereignty growing hand in hand
An estimated ten million small-scale farmers across 80 countries work to produce 70% of the world’s coffee according to Co-op Coffees, and in the...
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2.2KSouth AmericaCultivando Futuro is answering the data needs of Colombian farmers
“Data! Data! Data!” begins the quote from Sherlock Holmes, “I can’t make bricks without clay!” It is this sentiment that Colombian farmers...
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1.7KCentral America and CaribbeanBeyond Fair Trade: What you need to know about LATAM’s AgTech shift
An estimated ten million small-scale farmers, working less than ten hectares of land, across 80 countries work to produce 70% of the...
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2.0KSouth AmericaStartUp Weekend: Sao Paulo Blockchain 2017
December 8-10, 2017 saw the second global StartUp Weekend event in Sao Paulo, Brazil, which was organized by Bruno Diniz and a number...
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2.2KE-CommerceArgentina’s economic turnaround has bred two startup programs in Buenos Aires
From 2014, when The Economist wrote the article, “The tragedy of Argentina: A century of decline” to today, with Argentina having the...
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2.7KSouth AmericaDecentralizing startups for rural entrepreneurship ecosystems in Latin America
“Entrepreneurs are among the most overlooked assets for community change in rural areas nationwide,” says Dr. Michael W-P Fortunato, professor, author, and director...
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2.3KSouth AmericaAward-winning Peruvian startup hopes to help to eliminate food waste by increasing shelf-life with natural product
In 2016, Ximena Adriazola Du-Pont joined the ranks of the 3% of startups worldwide that have a female CEO.
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2.0KCentral America and CaribbeanPuenteLabs and IDB partner to help LATAM innovators make the leap to Silicon Valley
Not every startup gets a chance to pitch on Shark Tank and earn the education and investment available from those famous mentor-entrepreneurs.
