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La respuesta lógica es crear un modelo que presentara una educación y transferencia de conocimientos que prepara y alineara a los nuevos emprendedores para que con esta capacitación impacten y desarrollen todo el ecosistema.

Oasis 500 is the MENA region’s premier seed investment and development company. Set in Jordan, we aim to support entrepreneurs by providing them with investment, training and mentorship.

While technology is keys to the opportunities for youth in the modern workforce – it’s more than this. Youth and women need 21st century skills, personal empowerment and behavior changes to be the driving force in the new economies.

The Adolescent Girls’ Advocacy & Leadership Initiative builds the capacity of civil society leaders with the goal of helping them to speak out with one voice on the critical issues affecting adolescent girls in their countries.

African Women’s Entrepreneurship Program (AWEP) is an outreach, education, and engagement initiative that targets African women entrepreneurs to promote business growth, increase trade both regionally and to U.S. markets through the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).

Peter Kasprowicz of Credit Suisse and Elisabeth Rhyne of the Center for Financial Inclusion have recently completed an examination of global demographic trends and their implications for financial inclusion.

The International diaspora Engagement Alliance promotes and supports diaspora-centered initiatives in entrepreneurship, volunteerism, philanthropy, diplomacy, and social innovation in countries and regions of diaspora origin.

Mina Shahid (EWB) discusses how market facilitation differs from other types of development interventions, four common ways that projects get facilitation wrong, and what they can do to improve.

The Global Diaspora Forum is an annual celebration of America’s diaspora communities. Check out tweets from the event.

Mina Shahid outlines the structures and processes necessary for effective implementation of a market facilitation approach, and also identified common operating modes of less effective market facilitation projects.

Microlinks partnered with AZMJ to provide coverage of this year's Cracking the Nut Conference. Read any one of the several blog post recaps from various conference sessions and plenaries, or watch one of our video interviews with session presenters.

Anna Cuny Garloch, from ACDI/VOCA's Enterprise Development Team, briefly discusses the challenges in integrating the very poor into development projects and how the value chain approach can be implemented in ways that include them.

How can development practitioners and the private sector effectively implement interventions that break down social barriers and empower women in agricultural value chains?

During the Cracking the Nut Conference, the Microlinks Team interviewed USAID's Kofi Owusu-Boakye following his presentation with CRDB Bank, "Warehouse Receipts in Africa: Using Guarantees to Leverage Private Sector Capital."

At the close of the Cracking the Nut Conference hosted by AZMJ, Anita Campion, President of AZMJ, shared several conference takeaways.

At the Cracking the Nut Conference Beth Keck of Walmart joined the Microlinks Team for an interview following her keynote presentation, "Attracting Private Sector Investment to Rural and Agricultural Markets."

During the Cracking the Nut Conference the Microlinks Team interviewed Laté Lawson-Lartego of CARE USA following his session, "Tapping New Markets for Women-Owned Cashew Processing in Asia."

At the Cracking the Nut Conference on June 25-26 in Washington, DC, Alexandra Fiorillo of Ideas42 sat down with Microlinks to discuss her session, "Behavioral Economics in Agricultural Finance."

Smallholder farmers often do not maximize opportunities, either because they do not know how, there are no incentives to change a behavior, or the solution is not intuitive. Ideas42 seeks to devise solutions through a behavioral program design.

At the Cracking the Nut Conference last week in Washington, DC, Bill Marquard and John Mennel of Deloitte discussed their session, "Partnerships: A Critical Success Factor to Expanding Markets."

Deloitte conducted a series of interviews with companies in the food sector to get a better sense of how they are using global partnerships to not only promote growth in emerging markets, but drive their own business strategies.

Breakfast Seminar #70 focused on leveraging the value chain approach to facilitate increased mariculture competitiveness while also stimulating opportunities for the very poor to participate in, benefit from, and contribute to that growth.

Read Twitter highlights from day two of the Cracking the Nut 2012 Conference.

Eduardo Tugendhat summarizes some of the remaining barriers in attracting private investors to support rural and agricultural markets in developing countries.

Anita Campion summarizes some of the remaining barriers in attracting private investors to support rural and agricultural markets in developing countries.