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Creative Milk Business Fights Poverty, Links Rural and Urban Economies

April 2, 2009 No comments yet

With its high-quality milk, Nairobi-based Brookside Dairy has a 40 per cent share of the Kenyan dairy market. Seven per cent of its 80,000 suppliers are commercial farmers and the remainder are small-scale producers.
The widespread lack of refrigeration facilities means that Brookside employs an army of delivery personnel, including more than 1,000 “bicycle boys” in

Nobel Winner Claims Future Food Crisis is No “False Alarm”

March 23, 2009 No comments yet

Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist and winner of the Nobel Prize for economics, recently warned that the world should not allow the financial crisis to overshadow a lingering food crisis.
Krugman noted that a number of resource constraints – such as access to water, oil, and arable land – are converging with growing demand,



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