January 2, 2020
Sales: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
Sales strategist Matt Seitz figuratively parachutes into developing markets in places like Bangladesh and Cambodia and advises them against being the stereotype of a used car salesman. Consultants like Seitz represent a vital link between…
Read MoreJanuary 1, 2020
Jatin Yadav – The Business Doctor in Developing Markets
Jatin Yadav has worked with as many as 20 innovators in developing markets. He has a not-too-secret weapon that helps guide his successes. He helps them “look into the mirror so they can help themselves.”…
Read MoreDecember 31, 2019
Biogas Innovation in Developing Markets: It Takes a Village
In Uganda, where men tend to be the decision-makers and women the homemakers, how do you integrate into society an innovation that impacts the family but is traditionally a female chore – cooking? This was…
Read MoreDecember 30, 2019
Water Research Expert Dr. Joseph-Sunil Helps Manage Water Innovations in South Africa
South Africa ranks among the top 30 driest countries in the world, with half the water in the country’s rivers and dams coming from only eight percent of the water source areas. It’s unlikely that anyone…
Read MoreDecember 29, 2019
By Dr. Ku McMahan, Team Lead, Securing Water for Food I think there are hundreds of Shark Tank-style investors around the globe with a social conscience, an eye toward a fair profit, and the ability…
Read MoreDecember 28, 2019
Women Empowered and Yields Increased Finds Researcher – Evaluator for SWFF
When poet Robert Frost wrote of taking the “road less traveled,” he was being figurative. But when Pooja Gupta traveled those muddy, winding roads uphill in India, it was a very literal mission. As a researcher…
Read MoreDecember 27, 2019
Young Evaluator Assesses Seed Innovation in Rural India
Robert Nylander had never visited India. He had never sat at an Indian farmer’s table or slept at the farmer’s home. He had never experienced monsoons or navigated over flooded roads. He has now –…
Read MoreDecember 26, 2019
Gender Equality: A Significant SWFF Accomplishment
A significant accomplishment of the Securing Water for Food (SWFF) Program, a worldwide effort of several government funding agencies, is improving women’s integration into agriculture in some countries. This is particularly true in India, Bangladesh,…
Read MoreDecember 25, 2019
Pivot to Survive: Lessons of an Ethiopian Engineer
It is not a stretch to suggest Melesse Temesgen – an Ethiopian engineer who invents more efficient plows – is the John Deere of Ethiopia. We’re not talking huge combines, but simple plows. Deere, of…
Read MoreDecember 24, 2019
World Problems: Our Youth is Answering the Call
The world has a lot of problems. But Dr. Ku McMahan believes the solutions are held in the minds and hands of the world’s youth who have the energy, ingenuity, and connectivity to move mountains….
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