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  Food security: 3 major private sector approaches

  24 Jul 2014

  No one single organization or sector can solve global hunger, but the private sector has provided great leadership in the areas of nutrition and food security, writes the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation's Kara Valikai for Feeding Development.

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  Contributor: Kara Valikai, BCLC

  Contributor: Kara Valikai, BCLC

  Why bringing women-owned business into the supply chain makes business sense

  4 Oct 2013

  Globally it is estimated that corporates and governments only spend 1% of their budgets buying from women-owned businesses, and lack of female economic advancement is one reason women make up 70% of the world’s poor. The good news is that including women-owned businesses in global supply chains can increase profit margins, writes Kara Valikia, director of BCLC’s Women’s Economic Empowerment Issue Network.

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