What do you do when farmers do not want the improved seed?
The yields are better in trials. Uptake is about 15 percent. I think we have been answering a question nobody asked.
QuestionAgriculture
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Everything
Every cause, in one list.
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Need a designer for a tool that makes state budgets readable
The data is scraped and cleaned. Thirty-six states, six years. The problem is that it currently looks like a spreadsheet, and the people who most...
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Someone asked me for 15,000 naira to process a scholarship. Is this normal?
I saw a post on another site about a scholarship to study abroad. They replied quickly and asked me to pay a processing fee to secure my slot before...
QuestionCareers
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Green Futures Fellowship 2027, for climate work in East Africa
Twelve months, fully funded, based in Nairobi with travel across the region. For people under 35 already working on climate, not people who want to...
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Free online workshop on facilitating difficult meetings
Two hours, practical, no slides about leadership theory. We work through three situations people actually get stuck in, including what to do when one...
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Forty teenagers turned up. I planned for twelve.
We ran out of chairs, then paper, then patience. It was the best session we have had. If you are starting something and worrying whether anyone will...
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Open source fellowship, 12 months, remote, stipend included
For people maintaining or building open tools used in the public interest. Remote, and they mean it: past cohorts have been in fourteen countries....
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Grant funding or an investor for a solar business?
We install mini-grids in two districts. We could take a grant that covers 18 months, or an investor who wants equity and a return in five years. The...
QuestionEntrepreneurship
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Small grants for women-led organisations, up to 15,000 USD
Unrestricted funding, which is rare and worth saying twice: unrestricted. You decide what it pays for, including salaries and rent. Organisation must...
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Who maintains the pump after the project ends?
Every handover plan I have read says the community will. Every broken pump I have seen was handed over to a community.
QuestionWater
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