From sowing to sorting, manual labour by women is widespread in agriculture in India. Mechanisation and investment in R&D can solve this challenge.
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Washington State’s community and technical college system runs an Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) program that pairs instructors who provide basic skills education along with job training.
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When social entrepreneurs acknowledge that they must become as expert at selling as they are at product innovation, things change. Erica Mackey, co-founder and former COO of Off-Grid Electric (now…
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Turnout for school events has been sparse, but a student concert packed our gym.
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Ten years after the collapse at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, the garment industry’s deadliest disaster, reforms are incomplete. The opaqueness of today’s complex supply chain is part of the problem.
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A nationwide coalition of city leaders and advocacy groups are urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate the practice of “digital redlining,” which they said has resulted in a gaping…
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What started out as two socially-minded entrepreneur’s idea to foster, promote and highlight the beauty, power and diversity of young Latino entrepreneurs has blossomed into a bona fide movement—one that’s…
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Click here for more.In February, Cyclone Gabrielle hit New Zealand, bringing devastating floods and powerful winds, destroying homes, displacing thousands, and killing at least eleven people. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins called it “the most significant…
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When you hear the words “trailer park” or “mobile home park,” what comes to mind? Crime? Poverty? Vulnerability to natural disasters? These negative images reflect the stigma, reinforced by popular…
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Click here for more.“My name is Tanya Gulliver-Garcia; my pronouns are she her/hers. I am a white, fat woman wearing purple glasses with pink and purple collar-length hair and am wearing a purple…
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Fires here can affect meltwater timing and water quality, worsen erosion that triggers mudslides, and much more, as two scientists explain.
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El Niño can trigger intense and widespread periods of extreme ocean warming known as marine heat waves. They can devastate marine life.