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Using Impact Science to Solve Hunger More Effectively
Despite spending billions on food programs each year, the root causes of hunger remain unaddressed.
Tag: Food Access
Collaboration
How to Manage Large-Scale Public Crises
To address the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic disruptions, India’s government, businesses, and nonprofits had to work together. Their experience provides lessons for the world on crisis management.
Economic Development
Doing Development Differently
International aid must use different approaches to address the massive systemic problems it seeks to solve.
Design Thinking
Using Design Thinking to Tackle Climate Change When ‘What You Know No Longer Works’
As climate change creates new ambiguity problems for farmers, communities need to better understand and assess their own environments.
Education
School Districts Must Embrace Social Responsibility
Schools must help liberate their students and their families from social injustice and support the revitalization and sustainability of their communities and environment.
Technology
A Digital Lifeline in a Public Health Crisis
Five lessons from a global development organization in Bangladesh that used a digital cash transfer program to help poor families struggling with COVID-19. Part of a series on civil society's response to the pandemic.
Food
Boosting Farmer Incomes in Agricultural Supply Chains
Effectively tackling farmer poverty in global supply chains is not about repeating what others have tried in the past—it’s about doing business differently.
Food
Upland Rice
South Korea’s Green and Seed is using new technology to move more of the world’s rice production upland, out of flooded fields. A What's Next article from the Fall 2019 issue.
Review
Technology
History’s Tech Lessons
Economist Carl Benedikt Frey offers a refreshingly human-centered analysis of technological progress in The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation. A book review from the Fall 2019 issue.
Advocacy
Getting Political Is Good for Everyone
Nonprofits that engage in political activity benefit themselves, those they serve, and the political system as a whole.