Ltd. (GEWP), a for-profit company, has been improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of small farmers and their families by offering affordable water irrigation tools.

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Five are commercial ventures, including the overall winner, Bioneedle, and a Kenya-based social enterprise, Backpack Farm Agriculture Program, which sells tools and products like seeds and drip irrigation equipment to small commercial farmers in East Africa.

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Instead of a tractor and irrigation equipment, all SPIN farmers need are a few hand tools, maybe a Roto-tiller, and a commercial cooler to store their crops until they can get them to market.

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