African Growth Pt. II: The View of the World Bank and the Brookings Institution

Reblogged from Africa in DC:

While the South Africa Minister of Finance was the primary speaker at the Brookings Institution’s April 17 event on “Inequality and Inclusive Growth in Africa”, Shanta Devarajan, the Chief Economist for Africa at the World Bank and Homi Kharas, the Deputy Director of the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution were also present.  While Mr. Kharas made some very insightful comments I was thoroughly displeased my Mr.

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Farmigo Brings Farmer's Markets Online (And Into Your Office) With Its New Local Food Communities, Raises $8M

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Back in September 2011, Farmigo took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt and launched its site for discovering and enrolling in Community Supported Agriculture programs (where you can sign up to receive boxes of fresh produce from local farms). Ultimately, however, founder and CEO Benzi Ronen told me the CSA model only works for "1 percent of the population," while the company's mission is to make "healthy, fresh food available to everyone."

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Using Drones to Catch Illegal Poachers

Reblogged from Sustainability Hub:

http://youtu.be/pXZt1DDqVoU

About This Video: With $5 million from Google, the World Wildlife Foundation WWF is deploying unarmed drones to track & hunt down wildlife poachers.

Related Article: The Google-Funded Drones That Hunt Illegal Hunters (Fast Company)

Indian Air Force to induct first killer drones

Reblogged from Firangi on India - भारत पर विदेशी दृष्टिकोण:

On 04OCT12, the Economic Times, among others reported on the IAF's plans of inducting the Israeli made Harup loitering munitions system into its ranks. (The UCAV is also known as the Harpy-2 loitering munitions missile, as the drone loiters over the battlefield and attacks the targets by self-destructing into them.)

"The UCAV are expected to join us by next year enhancing our firepower in both conventional and low intensity conflict," a senior IAF official told reporters of PTI.

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Soy and Aquaculture

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Posted by Erin Tindell, Foreign Agricultural Service Public Affairs Specialist, on October 3, 2012 at 1:58 PM

Workers hold a net full of tilapia at a fish farm in Pakistan. The fish are part of the American Soybean Association’s (ASA) World Initiative for Soy in Human Health (WISHH) program called “FEEDing Pakistan.” The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) helped fund the program, which aims to enhance the country’s growing aquaculture sector through trial fish feeding using high–protein, floating fish feed produced from U.S.

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Nepal deploys drones to fight rhino poachers

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Report: For The First Time In Decades, US Is Bleeding High-Skilled Immigrants

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"The period of unprecedented expansion of immigrant-led entrepreneurship that characterized the 1980s and 1990s has come to a close," writes an ominous new Kauffman Foundation report from Stanford researcher and Washington Post columnist, Vivek Wadhwa.

He and his team of researchers are finding that, despite being the source of venerable American businesses, from Carnegie to Google, immigrants no longer see the United States as the only land of dreams, driven in large part by Congress's…

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