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Five ways climate change is impacting humanitarian crises around the world

Cisco CSR

Cisco’s newly launched five-year partnership with NetHope is focused on expanding its Disaster Preparedness, Response and Resiliency Program. Smallholder farmers represent a majority of the world’s poorest people and are responsible for producing a significant proportion of the world’s food. Food insecurity.

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One Acre Fund: How a mobile app prepares smallholder farmers for a successful harvest

Cisco CSR

With the audacious goal of solving global poverty in mind, One Acre Fund (OAF) has been working since 2006 to supply smallholder farmers in Sub Saharan Africa with the resources they need to improve their harvests, raise their incomes, adopt environmentally friendly farming practices and diversify crops to increase resilience to disasters.

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How this IoT device from charity: water could advance water access for billions

Cisco CSR

Founded in 2006, nonprofit charity: water has shown an incredible commitment to ensure that more people have access to enough clean water. million people access clean water since 2006, the charity: water team strives to expand their reach and impact millions more by continuing to innovate and leverage technology.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

Rose Stuckey Kirk, Senior Vice President, Chief Corporate Social Responsibility Officer, Verizon. She was executive producer of the 2017 documentary "Without a Net: The Digital Divide in America." . The idea was born during MacArthur’s three-year-long "journey of discovery" around the world from 2006 to 2009. . "If