http://www.nextbillion.net/multimedia/2005/12/07/hybrid-value-chains-social-innovations-and-the-development-of-the-small-farmer-irrigation-market-in-mexico Comments for "Hybrid Value Chains: Social Innovations and the Development of the Small Farmer Irrigation Market in Mexico" en http://www.nextbillion.net/multimedia/2005/12/07/hybrid-value-chains-social-innovations-and-the-development-of-the-small-farmer-irrigation-market-in-mexico <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-5"><div class="flexinode--8"> <strong>Session Title: </strong><br /> Civil Society &amp; Social Entrepreneurship</div> <div class="flexinode--12"> <strong>Date of talk or publication: </strong><br /> 2005</div> <div class="flexinode--9"> <strong>Speaker Name / Title: </strong><br /> Valeria Budinich, Kimberly Manno Reott, &amp; Stephanie Schmidt</div> <div class="flexinode--10"> <strong>Organization: </strong><br /> Ashoka</div> <div class="flexinode--11"> <strong>Description: </strong><br /> Today millions of people still do not have access to products and services that meet their basic human needs. Over one billion people live in inadequate housing, two billion do not have access to electrical power and as many are unbanked without access to any type of financial service. However, the unprecedented growth and rapid increase in productivity of the citizen sector in the last three decades - spearheaded by social entrepreneurs and their innovations - have created a foundation for a different type of highly-leveraged partnerships to better serve low-income markets and foster human development. <br class="clear" /></div> </div> http://www.nextbillion.net/multimedia/2005/12/07/hybrid-value-chains-social-innovations-and-the-development-of-the-small-farmer-irrigation-market-in-mexico#comment Strategy Successful Models Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:50:29 -0500 John Paul 1916 at http://www.nextbillion.net