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Mobile ITC for Agriculture: Cell Phones Helping BOP Rural Farmers - (USA)
Bottom of the Pyramid, Mobile Technology, and Rural Farmers The issue of mobile phones in rural development and agriculture is an increasing focus of social entrepreneurship at the bottom of the pyramid.. Pride Africa via Drumnet for instance offers a host of fantastic services to farmers via mobile: DrumNet will be providing currently available information to farmers on leading production methods for the most profitable crops thereby enabling members to grow the right crops using t
http://compassioninpolitics.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/mobile-itc-for-agriculture-cell-phones-helping-bop-rural-farmers/
Credit unions glow in media spotlight (Part IV) - (USA)
Back in September, as the economy began disintegrating, an unusual trend began to emerge. The media — who had been ignoring credit unions for decades — all of a sudden started talking about these member-owned financial cooperatives that had managed to avoid the economic catastrophe. Hundreds of articles later, it doesn’t appear that the trend will stop anytime soon. Reality Check: The biggest PR bonanza to hit credit unions — ever — will come to a screeching halt if they take TARP bailout mo
http://thefinancialbrand.com/2008/11/20/media-on-credit-unions-part-4/
Mandatory Insurance for Contractors and Developers Seen as a Solution to Defunct Companies - (USA)
In New Jersey, new home builders are not required to have general liability insurance. As a result, purchasers of new homes and condominium units are sometimes left without recourse in the event that their home was not constructed properly. As discussed in several Superior Court opinions, the New Home Warranty Program is ineffectual at best and is rarely an advisable option. Therefore, homeowners and condominium associations are often times forced to sue the developer of their property in
http://www.njlawblog.com/2009/04/articles/community-associations/mandatory-insurance-for-contractors-and-developers-seen-as-a-solution-to-defunct-companies/
Looking for Good Alternatives to the Stock Market? - (USA)
If you’ve been seriously bruised in the stock market lately, and your 401k is starting to look like a 201k, maybe it’s time to consider investing your money where it can do some good. The expanding area of socially responsible investing (SRI) is offering a growing selection of innovative financial products that provide both financial and social returns. Consider it much safer and certainly much more rewarding than the stock market, which is starting to resemble a night out in Vegas. When con
http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/looking-for-good-alternatives-to-the-sto.php
The Press Republican - Saranac Lake Community Store seeking investors - (USA)
http://www.pressrepublican.com/0100_news/local_story_125224554.html
Bingaman Fades; The Corrupt Core of the U.S. Senate Comes Into Full View; Is Obama One of Them? - (USA)
« Espanola Mayor Joseph Maestas Weighing Run as NM Lt. Guv | Main Something tells me that, UNLESS I SEE DEMOCRATS FIGHTING and ADVOCATING PUBLICLY FOR THE PUBLIC OPTION AND REAL HEALTH CARE REFORM, I'll be one of those people at the handful of town halls we'll be offered who'll be chanting JUST SAY NO. For different reasons than the teabaggers, but just about as vehemently. What is being agreed to now by corporate shills in the dark recesses of the Capitol cannot be all
http://www.democracyfornewmexico.com/democracy_for_new_mexico/2009/08/bingaman-fades-the-corrupt-core-of-the-us-senate-comes-into-full-view-is-obama-one-of-them.html
MP O.Chuluunbat: If we don’t react quickly, we will die in hunger - (USA)
It is wrong for commercial banks to attract saving deposit with high interest rate. MP O.Chuluunbat shares his views in this time of crisis and turbulence in the economy. Q: Several years ago, saving and credit cooperatives offered so high interest for its saving deposits in order to attract its clients, but they went bankruptcy soon after. As for me, recently, commercial banks are repeating the same reaction and measures as the cooperatives did long ago before they had gone bankruptcy. What
http://www.business-mongolia.com/mongolia-news/mp-ochuluunbat-if-we-don%e2%80%99t-react-quickly-we-will-die-in-hunger/
In Oregon, Thinking Local - New York Times - (USA)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/04/dining/04well.html?8hpib&oref=login
Youth Cooperative Education - (USA)
River Valley Market Food Co-op in Northampton, MA writes: Attention Teachers and Youth Program Leaders: Do you teach teenagers about economics, business, or social movements? Would you like to include cooperatives in your curriculum? We can help! We invite you to checkout the new website for youth oriented cooperative education: www.coopsrock.coop . We welcome school tours in our co-op ! Contact us: info@rivervalleymarket.coop for information about how we can support your eff
http://hilltownfamilies.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/rvm-2/
December 22 Is Deadline to Apply for SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans - (USA)
(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding small businesses of the deadline to submit disaster loan applications for economic injury as a result of the severe storms and tornadoes that occurred March 14-16, 2008. The deadline to file applications for Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDLs) is December 22, 2008.Small businesses and small agricultural cooperatives that suffered substantial economic injury in the following counties are eligible to apply to the SBA: Bartow,
http://georgiafrontpage.blogspot.com/2008/11/december-22-is-deadline-to-apply-for.html
Insurance Industry Fights Back Against Democratic Party Smears - (USA)
If you enjoy the attack against the insurance industry, you are going to be a very happy person. The wonks at the White House have decided the only way to turn around the negative reaction to Obamacare, is to make the insurance industry the ultimate villain. That's why Nancy Pelosi sent home her "Can't make a Judgment for themselves" congress with orders to blame the Insurance Industry for everything (except for the economy--for that they have to continue blaming Bush). The fact unacknowledged
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2009/08/insurance-industry-fights-back-against.html
THE INFLUENCE GAME: Insurers fighting back quietly - (USA)
WASHINGTON -- Cast as a profit-hoarding villain by Democratic foes, the insurance industry still has a fighting chance to fend off the part of a health care overhaul it most despises - creation of a government-run plan to compete with private insurers . Industry lobbyists are using influential allies, a thick wallet and a strategy of avoiding blatant confrontation to block or weaken the proposal, which Democrats say would drive down costs by offering an alternative to private companies. Insure
http://www.mashget.com/2009/08/06/the-influence-game-insurers-fighting-back-quietly/
USDA temporarily increases dairy support prices - (USA)
SALEM, Ohio — A bleeding U.S. dairy sector received a small bandage July 31 as the USDA announced plans to increase dairy price support levels, but the reactivated Congressional dairy caucus is still pushing for a long-term solution to historically low milk prices that are driving many milk producers out of business. Dairy price support From August through October, the USDA will increase the amount paid for dairy products through the Dairy Product Price Support Program . (link opens
http://www.farmanddairy.com/news/usda-temporarily-increases-dairy-support-prices/12755.html
Is Carbon Legislation Too Complex For Its Own Good? - (USA)
It's going to be tough getting any bill that reduces U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions through Congress in the next two years, and scores of different legislative strategies to do so are no doubt being dreamed up as we speak. As we've been reporting here, Democrats like Barbara Boxer and Jeff Bingaman have talked about the need to put out a "streamlined" cap-and-trade bill that's less complex than the 548-page Lieberman-Warner behemoth that died in the Senate this summer. But what exactly would a s
http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/environmentandenergy/archive/2008/11/21/is-carbon-legislation-too-complex-for-its-own-good.aspx
SBA Disaster Loans Available Following Secretary of Agriculture ... - Earthtimes (press release) - (USA)
Earthtimes (press release) SBA Disaster Loans Available Following Secretary of Agriculture ... Earthtimes (press release), UK ATLANTA - (Business Wire) The US Small Business Administration announces today that federal economic injury disaster loans are available to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives and most private, non-profit organizations of all sizes ...
http://newsmediamagazine.com/./blog/sba-disaster-loans-available-following-secretary-agriculture-earthtimes-press-release
WOOLWORTHS - IS NEW LABOUR DEAD? - (USA)
Two major retail companies, MFI and Woolworths have been placed into administration – which is a technical measure that potentially allows a company to trade its way out of a crisis, but the administrators are legally bound to put the interests of creditors first. And there is a lot of debt, Woolworths owes £385 million. They have been squeezed by a downturn in consumer spending, and the concern by the banks that they were a poor risk, which meant that their suppliers have recently insisted on
http://www.socialistunity.com/?p=3124
Recent Tweets from the BARN - (USA)
McLEAN, Va., May 14, 2009 — The Farm Credit Administration (FCA) Board today adopted a proposed rule that governs the disclosures a qualified lender must make to a borrower when the borrower’s interest rate is directly tied to a widely publicized external index.According to the proposed rule, at the time the loan is made, a qualified lender would be required to disclose how and where the borrower could track changes to the index and how changes to the index are reflected in the borrower’s intere
http://brianallmerradionetwork.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/05-14-09-fca-news-fca-board-adopts-proposed-rule-governing-effective-interest-rate-disclosures/
Rabobank Foundation announces 10m INR in funding for AOFG India to boost capacity building of region - (USA)
/India PRwire/ - Rabobank Foundation announces 10m INR in support for the Agricultural and Organic Farming Group (AOFG) India over the next three years in recognition of its work with farmer-owned partner company Zameen Organic. AOFG India, a network organisation consisting of farmer associations and grass root development and community organisations, helped set up Zameen Organic in 2006 to improve access to markets for small and marginal farmers. Initially working with 300 farmers in the Vidar
http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/financial-services/2009081131199.htm
Mindanao's First Credit Surety Funds - (USA)
Ruby Anne M. Rubio of GMANews.TV reported that the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will introduce the first credit surety funds in Mindanao, which will guarantee loans of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) from banks in lieu of collateral. The report also mentioned that the central bank will forge a memorandum of agreement with the provincial governments of Davao del Norte and Compostela Valley with the launching of Davao del Norte Credit Surety Fund (DavNor CSF) and Compostela Val
http://seeknomore.blogspot.com/2009/08/mindanaos-first-credit-surety-funds.html
Today's Climate: August 3, 2009 - (USA)
Australia's Wong Rejects Carbon Trade Changes (Reuters) Australian laws for carbon trading appear to be headed for defeat in parliament's upper house Senate next week. Climate Change Minister Penny Wong today rejected nine proposed opposition amendments. Aviation Industry Expects Certified Biofuel within 2 Years (Business Green) The aviation industry is on target to certify the first jet biofuels for commercial use by 2011, according to a senior executive at one of the world's larg
http://solveclimate.com/blog/20090803/todays-climate-august-3-2009
FDR’S New Deal v. Obamanomics in Their First 100 Days - (USA)
by Stephen Lendman With good reason, progressive economists reflect positively on Roosevelt’s New Deal even though: – it failed to end the Great Depression; – had many flaws; – did too little for blacks, women, immigrants, small farmers, agricultural workers, and the poor; – let blacks be persecuted, discriminated against, and in the South denied their voting rights and lynched; – 10 weeks after Pearl Harbor, he signed an Executive Order interning loyal Japanese American citize
http://waronyou.com/topics/fdrs-new-deal-v-obamanomics-in-their-first-100-days/
Obama "Open" to Co-ops in Place of Public Option - (USA)
So says Nancy-Ann DeParle in an interview with Bloomberg : Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama may accept nonprofit health-insurance cooperatives in place of a new government-run plan as long as consumers are guaranteed more choice and competition in buying insurance, a top aide said. “We would be interested in that” if those conditions are met, Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s “Conversatio
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/8/7/763238/-Obama-Open-to-Co-ops-in-Place-of-Public-Option
Retail Memo: Customer-Owned Retail Food Cooperative Stores Gaining New Popularity in Reccessionary A - (USA)
Seattle, Washington USA-based PCC Natural Markets operates 10 modern cooperative natural foods supermarkets in the Seattle Metropolitan region. The photo collage above shows the exterior and interior of one of those stores, [Photo credit: PCC Natural Markets.]Food retailing and consumers in trying economic timesThe retail food cooperative movement in the United States was brought across the Atlantic, like many other things, from Europe, where beginning after the second World War the cooperativ
http://naturalspecialtyfoodsmemo.blogspot.com/2008/11/retail-memo-customer-owned-retail-food.html
HCM City plans more cooperatives - (USA)
VNBusinessNews.com - The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has devised a plan to establish more business cooperatives, primarily in the trade and service sectors.The committee said it would conduct research to develop cooperatives in housing, health care and school sectors.Another aim will be the merger of small-scale trade and service cooperatives into unions or larger cooperatives.Priorities will be given to agricultural service cooperatives, who provide input materials and purchase products
http://www.vnbusinessnews.com/2009/04/hcm-city-plans-more-cooperatives.html
The Hindu : National : Amul: over to natural vanilla - (USA)
http://www.hindu.com/2008/03/18/stories/2008031859411300.htm
The Early Word: Back to the Economy - (USA)
The White House shifts its focus back to the economy on Wednesday, with President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. fanning out to the Midwest to talk up the administration’s recovery efforts.Mr. Obama will make the second trip of his presidency to the Elkhart, Ind., area, where he will speak at Monaco RV, a recreational vehicle business. Mr. Biden heads to Detroit, another area having economic difficulties. (Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Energy Secretary Steven Chu are also hitti
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/the-early-word-back-to-the-economy/
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