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Powering Dairy Growth: Diana’s Journey to a Climate-Smart Business 

When Diana Makobe Mlamila struggled to find safe, quality milk for her family, she saw more than a personal challenge. She saw a business opportunity that could help her community.
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Soil Strategy: How Farmers Are Turning Ailing Crops Into a Fruitful Future 

Benedict saw massive improvements in soil and crop health after adopting a climate-smart biofertilizer, inspiring other farmers to do the same.
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The Climate Solution Hiding in Sunflower Stalks: Higher Yields at a Fraction of the Cost  

Lulu Adama, a smallholder farmer and mother of six, increased her sunflower yields and her income by adopting sustainable solutions through FEGGE.
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From Hand Husking to Hiring: One Woman’s Entrepreneurial Story

In Northern Ghana, women like Janet Nbem always had the skill to build a business. What they lacked was a machine, a market and capital the system was never built to offer them.
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From a Single Street Stall to Trucks and Employees: How a Loan Boosted Aracely’s Produce Business

For Aracely, MiCrédito, a microfinance institution that MEDA helped launch through the MEDA Risk Capital Fund, provided the capital she needed to restock, expand, and begin building the business she had imagined.
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Diaspora Leaders Present Roadmap for Canada’s Engagement with Africa

Today, MEDA released A Diaspora Agenda for Canada-Africa Strategy Implementation, a publication that brings together recommendations from more than 100 African diaspora leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, academics, development practitioners, policymakers, and government representatives.
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Esther Muna, founder of Muna & Coest Ltd.

One Woman’s Journey: How Esther Built a Thriving Business and Transformed Hundreds of Lives

Esther Muna grew her rice production business in Tanzania to a more sustainable model, hiring other women and trading internationally.
Success Stories

Financing Africa’s Next Growth Story: MEDA Joins the Conversation in Lagos

At the Canada-Africa Business Conference in Lagos, MEDA's Claude Clodomir explains why building investable enterprises comes before financing them.
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Brewing Dreams for a Brighter Future: How Irma Went From Farmer to Employer

Corn and coffee farmer Irma Hernández Garcia increased her income and grew her business by joining OCIDA.
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Solar panel commissioning site in Ghana.

GROW2 Boosts Climate-Smart Farming for Women with Solar-Powered Irrigation Site in Moglaa, Northern Ghana

The GROW2 project, funded by Global Affairs Canada and implemented by MEDA in collaboration with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, has officially commissioned a solar‑powered irrigation site in the Moglaa community of Ghana’s Northern Region.
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From Baseline to Breakthrough: Partnering with Wakami Opens New Possibilities for Rural Women in Guatemala 

In 2022, MEDA’s team surveyed women joining the Women’s Empowerment for Central America (WE4CA) project in rural Guatemala. At that time, none of the women met MEDA’s decent work standard: a measure of whether economic participation is translating into stable, dignified livelihoods. Just three years later, that number has climbed to 31%.
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Cherrylin Casuga sits at a table overlooking cacao fields in the Philippines.

How Tablea Milk is Nourishing 11,000 Children and Transforming Davao’s Cacao Value Chain

In the schoolyards of Davao City in the Philippines, a new kind of chocolate milk is reshaping both childhood nutrition and the future of local cacao farmers. Its secret lies in a traditional ingredient called tablea.  
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You can create business solutions to poverty right now

John, a Kenyan coconut farmer, and thousands like him face the kind of poverty that can only be solved through business solutions.