Food Bank of Japan

By SSIR Editors

Supplements to the article “Feeding Relationships”

Scrappy Solutions

By Suzie Boss 4

A new regulation in Massachusetts aims to direct food waste away from landfills and toward more productive uses.

In Aid of Conflict?

By Adrienne Day 1

International food assistance can lead to a spike in the occurrence of armed conflict within a country.

Approaching Food Waste from All Sides

By William D. Eggers & Christopher Benz 9

New technology-enabled solutions are trying to match the scale of food recovery to the scale of industrial food distribution.

Food Doesn’t Grow in Silicon Valleys

By Rufo Quintavalle 18

A focus on innovation can be an impediment to genuine progress in the food system.

Podcast

Global Issues

Using Science and Social Enterprise to Improve Rice Crop Yield in India and Bangladesh

Featuring Pamela Ronald

Pamela Ronald, of the University of California, Davis, talks about how her laboratory, in collaboration with other scientists, developed a variety of rice with sufficient submergence tolerance to survive severe flooding.

Podcast

Global Issues

Quality and Innovation as the Basis for Sustainability

Featuring John Kehoe

John Kehoe discusses how the chocolate maker TCHO has encouraged social entrepreneurship in developing countries through innovative supply chain practices.

The Ethiopian Approach to Food Security

By Khalid Bomba & Dan Glickman 2

How one African country is changing how we feed the world.

Podcast

Global Issues

Social Entrepreneurship and Cocoa Farmers

Featuring John Kehoe

TCHO company executive John Kehoe talks about the firm's goals in producing high-end products and helping farmers in developing countries.

The Paradox of Fair Trade

By Manel Modelo 5

In 2011, a rift opened within the fair trade movement. What are the tensions that drove otherwise like-minded activists to form rival camps.