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Beef and pork prices hover at near record high due to labor shortages, high grain and energy costs and just plain old demand

Beef and pork prices hover at near record high due to labor shortages, high grain and energy costs and just plain old demand

Why SPACs aren’t targeting African startups One. That’s the number of African tech companies that have gone public on the NYSE in the last 10 years. Two, if you’re counting local exchanges. The former is African-focused e-commerce company Jumia and the latter is Egyptian fintech company Fawry. As a tech company, Fawry’s listing on the Egyptian Stock Exchange is a rarity. Typically, most exchanges in emerging markets like Africa, India, and Latin America are filled with traditional compa...

April 29th, 2021 in Featured and News. Closed Time Magazine names Gro Intelligence, founded by Ethiopian American entrepreneur Sara Menker, among the 100 Most Influential Companies. (Photo: Time) Sara Menker comes by her nightmares honestly. She was born in Ethiopia in 1982, shortly before a two-year famine resulted in the death of up to a million of her compatriots. Menker was too young to have firsthand memories, and her family was solidly middle class—her mother was a se...

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT): Powering the lockdown Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT): Keeping America fed, clothed and vaccinated Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: PYPL): Unearthing the digital wallet Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA): Coalescing e-commerce FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX): Taking flight Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ: COIN): Shoring up crypto’s credibility AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T): Keeping Americans connected Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB): Fighting (and fueling) misinforma...

A funding initiative focused on driving technological innovations and new business models for Africa has been announced today by Milken Institute and Motsepe Foundation. The Milken-Motsepe Innovation Prize will consist of multiple competitions in the areas of agriculture, energy, education, and health, according to a joint statement by the organisers.  The series is kicking off […]

Time featured General Motors CEO Mary Barra on one of five covers. The TIME100 Most Influential Companies issue spotlighted five CEOs with longer profiles.

Shutterstock Midway through our inaugural GreenFin event last week, during a break devoted to three-minute bursts of randomly selected networking conversations, I found myself paired with a university student attending the conference as part of his studies.  The question he put to me during his introduction gave me pause: "Do I need sustainable finance skills on my resume?" Apparently, he’d been advised by the professors at his school in the U.S. midsection to dismiss what they perceived as ...

April 15, 2021 Four years ago this week, Project Drawdown released groundbreaking research on climate solutions that catalyzed the narrative that reversing global warming is possible. To celebrate that anniversary and underscore what’s needed now, I’m spotlighting 15 women-led ventures at the heart of the climate-tech movement. After all, one of the most surprising conclusions from our work — disclaimer, I served on Project Drawdown’s founding board of directors — is that empowering ...

Support OneGreenPlanet Being publicly-funded gives us a greater chance to continue providing you with high quality content. Please support us! Support Us Sara Menker is the founder of a start-up with big goals. As the CEO and founder of Gro Intelligence, her company provides tools to help, “two of the biggest challenges we face as humanity: food security and climate change,” she told TIME. Menker is a former Morgan Stanley commodities trader turned CEO. Gro Intelligence forecasts and ...