Advocates continue to repeat that GMOs are needed to feed the world; now the prestigious International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development has joined a long list of experts who flatly reject GMOs as the answer to hunger.
Fatuma has joined a tailoring class facilitated by Restless Development, which will help her start a small business and earn an income to support her family.
Brilliant idea: Netflix and a number of consumer electronics companies have joined in a development effort to put Netflix-branded one-click buttons on remote controls that operate Internet-connected TVs, Blu-ray disc players and other devices.
She has joined an art class.
As part of the acquisition, SocialBios founder Ernie Graham and co-founders Ira McMahon and Andrew Van Tassel have joined the product development team at Move, where the former will head up Move's social product strategy and development team.
In a private-public collaboration, the Port Authority has joined with a development team of principals of SJM Partners, of Palm Beach, Fla., and Slayton Equities, of New York.
Similarly, the Mekong River Commission, Asian Development Bank, and World Wildlife Fund have joined efforts to develop a Rapid Basin-Wide Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Tool as a way of reducing environmental impacts from hydropower.
Sithe and the Aga Khan Group, a private international development organization, have joined to build a huge hydroelectric dam in Jinja, Uganda, which is expected to cost $860 million.
The resources for this new fund came from both CI's Global Conservation Fund and from BNDES, the Brazilian National Development Bank – an historic first in which an indigenous community, an international conservation organization, and a major development bank have joined forces to make it all a reality.
As part of the deal, all members of the HaloIPT staff have joined Qualcomm's European Innovation Development group (which is based in the UK).
