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The “Domino Effect” of Disbursing a Single Microloan

Society Development Committee, or SDC, based in Faridpur, Bangladesh, is a microfinance partner of the Feed the Future Bangladesh Livestock and Nutrition Activity, funded by USAID and implemented by ACDI/VOCA. Through this partnership, thousands of people working in Bangladesh’s livestock sector have benefited from microfinance products.

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Lucía Vasquez Méndez, 46, and her sons work harvesting coffee beans at Abel Mendez Bejarano’s coffee farm in San Juan Intibucá, Honduras. Abel receives technical support from Catholic Relief Services (CRS) through the Blue Harvest Project. Photo Credit: Oscar Leiva/Silverlight for CRS.

Coffee Market Systems Development to Protect Watersheds in Honduras

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What does protecting watersheds have to do with the coffee market system? Surprisingly, a lot! Since 2014, Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) Blue Harvest Program has worked with local partners in Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua to restore water resources and transform coffee livelihoods. The mountainous, coffee-producing areas of Central America provide drinking water for millions of people. As land degradation and climate change threaten coffee production and contribute to growing water scarcity, the link between the coffee market system and natural resource management has never been more important.
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The Market Corner: Working at the Nexus of Health and the Environment

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Marketlinks Team
For the second installment of the Market Corner blog series, Holly Lard Krueger speaks with sustainable development expert and primary care clinician Liz Willetts about the interconnectedness of our health and environmental systems, the voice missing from global policy decision-making tables, and the true cost of that lack of representation. Access February’s first installment here.
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The Market Corner: Towards Greater Equity and Inclusion in Supply Chains

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This post was written by Holly Lard Krueger. This month on the Market Corner, I find common ground with two human rights advocates from completely different international development fields by exploring issues of equity and inclusion in supply chains and the application of systems thinking.