Lisa Shipley

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Gender equality and food sovereignty growing hand in hand

By Lisa Shipley January 4, 2018

An estimated ten million small-scale farmers across 80 countries work to produce 70% of the world's...

Cultivando Futuro is answering the data needs of Colombian farmers

By Lisa Shipley January 2, 2018

"Data! Data! Data!" begins the quote from Sherlock Holmes, "I can't make bricks without clay!" It...

Beyond Fair Trade: What you need to know about LATAM’s AgTech shift

By Lisa Shipley December 22, 2017

An estimated ten million small-scale farmers, working less than ten hectares of land, across 80...

StartUp Weekend: Sao Paulo Blockchain 2017

By Lisa Shipley December 18, 2017

December 8-10, 2017 saw the second global StartUp Weekend event in Sao Paulo, Brazil, which was...

Argentina’s economic turnaround has bred two startup programs in Buenos Aires

By Lisa Shipley December 15, 2017

From 2014, when The Economist wrote the article, "The tragedy of Argentina: A century of decline"...

Decentralizing startups for rural entrepreneurship ecosystems in Latin America

By Lisa Shipley December 3, 2017

“Entrepreneurs are among the most overlooked assets for community change in rural areas...

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Award-winning Peruvian startup hopes to help to eliminate food waste by increasing shelf-life with natural product

By Lisa Shipley November 30, 2017

In 2016, Ximena Adriazola Du-Pont joined the ranks of the 3% of startups worldwide that have a...

PuenteLabs and IDB partner to help LATAM innovators make the leap to Silicon Valley

By Lisa Shipley November 27, 2017

Not every startup gets a chance to pitch on Shark Tank and earn the education and investment...

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