Lisa Shipley

Lisa Shipley
Central America and Caribbean Mexico Regions South America Startups

Gender 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 past, Fair

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Cultivando 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 are

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Beyond 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 world’s

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South America Startups

StartUp 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 of

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Argentina’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 3rd

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South America Startups

Decentralizing 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 of

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South America Startups

Award-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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Central America and Caribbean South America Startups

PuenteLabs 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.

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