Farm Pass Momentum Accelerates with Bayer, Rabo Partnerships & Mastercard Collaboration in India Two Million Smallholder Farmers Worldwide Now Connected to Mastercard's Agritech Platform SINGAPORE, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ Employing more than a quarter of the global workforce, agriculture accounts for 4% of global GDP[1], totaling nearly $4.5 trillion[2]. At the heart of this value chain are more than 608 million smallholder farmers who produce around a third of the world's food[3]. Yet despite agricultural development being one of the most powerful tools for ending extreme poverty[4], farming no longer guarantees a sustainable livelihood. In fact, 65% of poor working adults make a living through agriculture. To help tackle this problem, and as part of the company's global effort to drive financial and digital inclusion, today at the Singapore FinTech Festival, Mastercard announced that it would expand its Farm Pass digital platform across the Asia Pacific region, bu
New Delhi [India], October 27 (ANI/PRNewswire): When Issac quit his dream job of Head of Marketing at PUMA in 2015 and took a career break to study screenwriting in New York, little did he know what he had signed up for. Over the past two years, Issac spoke to more than fifty working professionals, all of whom went through a break in their career for various reasons. Reboot is an intimate, honest and rich compendium of all those experiences, mistakes, lows and highs that people confronted with a career break go through. Paperback | Self Help | Personal Development |Harper Business| 200 pp | Rs 399 Available Wherever Books Are Sold | Releasing November 5, 2022 Author, Issac John says, "Career breaks, whether voluntary or involuntary, dent the confidence of working professionals and make it harder for them to rejoin a mainstream career. I struggled with it up close when after my second sabbatical, it took me 18 months to make a comeback. It's high time we normalise career breaks
SYDNEY, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ If it's good enough for Elon Musk, could hired prefab homes be a solution to the rising housing crisis? PennyGranny, an innovative Australian affordable housing start-up, is convinced it's the way forward and will deliver a prefab, portable home direct to customers' block of land ready to live in or rent out for profit. Inspired by multi-billionare Elon Musk's modest choice of housing, an Australian start-up is offering an innovative solution to the current affordable housing crisis. The brainchild of serial tech founder Michael Doubinski, PennyGranny Pty Ltd stocks a range of stylish prefab homes that can be hired from $230 per week, including delivery to the customers' property. The idea behind PennyGranny came when Doubinski read an article about Musk's new living arrangement. As the world's richest man, Elon Musk can live anywhere in the world, but the tech billionaire reportedly shacks up in a rented compact house abo