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		<title>Testing our Assumptions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing like a Sunday afternoon curled up in a chair with a coffee and a book on monitoring and evaluation&#8230; In the latest IDS Bulletin, I came across this graphic, attributed to Ed Batista, a blogger who talks about “Double-Loop Learning”. I thought that the picture was also quite relevant to our own learning loops [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=filmorebuckets.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9861408&amp;post=207&amp;subd=filmorebuckets&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pop Quiz: What do a treadle pump and an aspirin have in common? If you are like most normal people, you probably answered “not much” (although an enterprising sales rep offering pumps on credit might tell a potential customer, “Take two and call me in the morning”). But for a group of researchers gathered in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=filmorebuckets.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9861408&amp;post=200&amp;subd=filmorebuckets&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 14:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t yet seen today&#8217;s issue of the Globe and Mail, you should check it out. Bono and Bob Geldof guest edited the edition, with a focus on the potential of Africa. This is an attempt to build momentum for public discussion of poverty and investment in Africa ahead of the G8 summit being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=filmorebuckets.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9861408&amp;post=192&amp;subd=filmorebuckets&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Totally Pumped 5: IDE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the final instalment of Stu Taylor’s presentation to Aqua Books’ ideaExchange, entitled: “Totally Pumped: Creating Income Opportunities for African Farmers or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Capitalism.” See previous posts for the remainder of the talk. Enjoy! Coming back to Canada in 2006, I reflected on what I would say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=filmorebuckets.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9861408&amp;post=182&amp;subd=filmorebuckets&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Totally Pumped 4: Dan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Part 4 of Stu Taylor’s presentation to Aqua Books’ ideaExchange, entitled: “Totally Pumped: Creating Income Opportunities for African Farmers or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Capitalism.” I am publishing the transcript in instalments this week. Enjoy! Dan Ball is a Canadian – a missionary kid who grew up in Zambia’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=filmorebuckets.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9861408&amp;post=171&amp;subd=filmorebuckets&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Totally Pumped 3: My Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Part 3 of Stu Taylor&#8217;s presentation to Aqua Books&#8217; ideaExchange, entitled: &#8220;Totally Pumped: Creating Income Opportunities for African Farmers or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Capitalism.&#8221; I am publishing the transcript in instalments this week. Enjoy! Too many within the international aid community seem ambivalent or even negative about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=filmorebuckets.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9861408&amp;post=165&amp;subd=filmorebuckets&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Totally Pumped 2: Sylvia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Part 2 of Stu Taylor&#8217;s presentation to Aqua Books&#8217; ideaExchange, entitled: &#8220;Totally Pumped: Creating Income Opportunities for African Farmers or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Capitalism.&#8221; I am publishing the transcript in instalments this week. Enjoy! Let me share with you one story that may be a little off the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=filmorebuckets.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9861408&amp;post=152&amp;subd=filmorebuckets&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Totally Pumped 1: Visions of Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stu Taylor &#8211; Executive Director of IDE Canada &#8211; gave a presentation to ideaExchange at Aqua Books in Winnipeg this past weekend: &#8220;Totally Pumped: Creating Income Opportunities for African Farmers, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Capitalism. An audio file will be posted soon on the Aqua Books site. In the meantime, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=filmorebuckets.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9861408&amp;post=141&amp;subd=filmorebuckets&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing to be Proud Of</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Normally, IDEalists extol the virtues of a free market as the best way to offer real value to customers &#8211; poor and wealthy alike. However, I have just been reminded that businesses can often treat customers with about as much respect as any two-bit tinpot dictator. Traveling through Vancouver airport last week, I popped into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=filmorebuckets.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9861408&amp;post=131&amp;subd=filmorebuckets&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Investments that Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FAO&#8217;s Jacques Diouf takes calls from his temporary hunger strike &#8220;office&#8221; Over at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, someone has suggested the radical idea that investing in small-scale agriculture may combat hunger in the developing world. In an unusual move for a top UN official, the FAO’s Director General Jacques Diouf commenced a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=filmorebuckets.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9861408&amp;post=121&amp;subd=filmorebuckets&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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