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In search of inspiration and ideas? Initiatives & Projects highlights who does what, and how they do it. Trying to break new grounds within nutrition, food production and sustainable business and development.

Drones in the air help farmers on the ground in the Philippines

Sylvia Banda

Female entrepreneur transforming the food market in Zambia

LUSAKA. Zambian entrepreneur and social activist Sylvia Banda has dedicated her career to promoting traditional food. Her quest has increased food security in rural areas and opened up new income possibilities for small-scale farmers. It started with a restaurant in the late 1980s that grew into a chain of canteens for corporate clients. However, Banda’s goals...

Coca-Cola’s new map tells the origin story of your juice

Curious about where the oranges in your breakfast juice comes from? Or want to be sure that the sugar cane in your soda isn’t harvested by children before you take a sip? The Coca-Cola Company feels that their customers have the right to know the answers to these types of questions. The company has decided...

The future of food is here

How can we leverage technology and data to create more inventive and sustainable food systems? MIT Media Lab’s Open Agriculture Initiative, under the visionary leadership of research scientist, Caleb Harper is doing just this – harnessing the power of digital technology and data to reinvent how we could grow food in the future. Caleb Harper believes...

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Collecting food security data with mobile phones

Women in Senegal

Hungry season reduced using local crops

In Senegal, the hungry season has been shortened from six months to under a month thanks to the cultivation of local crops. Nearly 250,000 people have learned how to grow, eat and sell local foods, instead of consuming rice and other imported grains, in a project funded by UN organisation, IFAD. The Agricultural Value Chains...

Ripe corn

Online veg box scheme empowers smallholder farmers

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On an African Learning Journey

Did you know that Africa is the youngest place on earth? Approximately 200 million people between the ages of 15 and 24 live in Africa and the region is, on top of that, urbanising twice as fast as the world average. This makes it the perfect place to study how a changing world will support...

Ancient solutions to a modern problem

By using traditional techniques and knowledge accumulated over thousands of years, farmers in South East Turkey could increase the cotton yield using less water. With the help of The Coca-Cola Life Plus Foundation and the Nature Conservation Centre efficient irrigation techniques was taught in the region and part of the success was the clear connection...

Mali street food stand - 2scale.org posted by Rachid

To rebrand a traditional meal

Sustainably feeding a growing population

Smallholders empowered by technology

How to double the mango yield

Climate service empowers local farmers

Bringing cocoa farmers together

Can building a culture of cooperation help small holder farmers in Ghana and the Ivory Coast to improve farming practices and generate higher yields? The World Cocoa Foundation and TechnoServe believe so. By encouraging 200,000 cocoa farmers in West Africa to work as a community, the foundation seeks to double the farmers’ incomes and, at...

Waste reduction from farm to fork

Crop insurance- an idea worth seeding?

In 1984, Kenya had to live through the year of the Goro Goro and the worst drought in living memory. A Goro Goro is a jug used to measure two kilograms of maize flour at the local market and that year the entire maize harvest could fit into a single jug. A successful crop is...

A brighter future with milk

Female Ethiopian farmers become Eataly suppliers

Local harvest becomes local ketchup

Why import tomatoes when locally-harvested tomatoes are being thrown away? Manisha Dhatrak, a businesswoman in India, decided to set up a plant and process locally-grown tomatoes. She approached Unilever and today, her company, Varun Agro, is one of Unilever’s key strategic suppliers for Kissan Ketchup.

Milk cans

The Enough Movement calls for action for food security

Cargill focus on food security

Food for Good by PepsiCo makes nutritious food more accessible

Through collaboration with community and government partners, PepsiCo’s sustainability project Food for Good brings free healthy meals to children in low-income neighborhoods.

SUN unites countries to improve global nutrition

SUN, Scaling up Nutrition, is a movement that’s really worth keeping your eyes on. They seek to create sustainable change that no business, organisation or government can achieve alone; working collectively across issues and sectors to improve nutrition.

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Coca-Cola India improving the situation for students

In India, it is estimated that nearly one in three children drop out of school by 5th grade. Coca-Cola India has in collaboration with businesses and celebrities, worked hard to improve the school situation through the ‘Support My School Project’. Read more on what they did via by the link below!

The Volvo Group aim to improve bilateral growth in 10 African countries

GAIN and Unilever team up to help 2.5 million farmers

The 2014 Global Nutrition Report found that investing in nutrition is key to development efforts related to poverty, health and employment – giving at least 16 US$ back on every dollar spent. Earlier this year GAIN and Unilever signed an agreement that aims to improve the lives of 2.5 million farmers.