Olam sources directly from small agricultural cooperatives or village-level agents who buy directly from farmers.

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It involves a centralised, village-level system with a large solar panel that charges a car battery.

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Instead, it set up a network of village-level entrepreneurs who are responsible for marketing, selling, and recharging the lights.

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The lightly trained Afghan Local Police, a village-level force backed by U.S. troops and overseen by the Ministry of the Interior, is tasked with helping bring security to remote areas.

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Village-level elections have not been replicated in townships.

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So it goes at the village level - and so it must stop.

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In most parts of the developing world, control over resources at the village level is ill-defined.

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At the lowest level - the village - it had cells of between three and seven people, rising up to regional commands and a national command.

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In 1989, Cox moved back to New York to work on his first major private commission in the U.S.: artist Jennifer Bartlett's three-level roof garden in Greenwich Village.

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Rather than subsidising village broadband, funds should be used to provide high-speed access at a district level, says Juan Navas-Sabater of the World Bank.

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