Impact Investing for the Missing Middle in Agri-Finance
How an innovative stakeholder-shareholder investment model is helping smallholder farmers grow and thrive.
Food - Articles
Innovative ways to increase access to food resources and improve food systems (more)
The United Nations’ Innovation Learning Journey
Despite a notoriously innovation-adverse environment in UN organizations overall, a growing body of success stories are changing lives and contributing to continuous organizational learning.
Approaching Gender Equity Through Indigenous Knowledge and Customs
A trial program that worked with couples in rural Zimbabwe shows the potential of a locality-based approach.
Soup Relief
Simple acts of charity prove to have profound impact at the individual level.
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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.
Technology on the Farm
Outgrow combines digital technologies and India’s ancient agricultural wisdom to support small-scale farmers.
Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive
How businesses can transform procurement practices to strengthen farmer livelihoods and improve environmental impacts.
Making the Affordable Aspirational: Increasing the Adoption of Frugal Innovations at the Base of the Pyramid
Companies and nonprofits need to be more realistic and empathetic that consumers’ decisions are not purely driven by cost.
Digital Service Development Needs an Ethical Pause
The ethical pause—a short period of reflection and inquiry about a project’s ethical implications and the team’s approach to the work—helps ensure teams ask the right questions and address issues of inequity and access in the services they develop.
Good Overfishing
Good overfishing removes an invasive species from Mexico rivers and creates jobs.