Food
Food Doesn’t Grow in Silicon Valleys
A focus on innovation can be an impediment to genuine progress in the food system.
Tag: Agriculture
Innovations in farming and agronomy that promote sustainability and advance social good
Podcast
Global Issues
Using Science and Social Enterprise to Improve Rice Crop Yield in India and Bangladesh
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.
Nonprofit Management
Shaping Global Partnerships for a Post-2015 World
The principles of collective impact offer important lessons for architects of global collaborative efforts.
Podcast
Global Issues
Quality and Innovation as the Basis for Sustainability
John Kehoe discusses how the chocolate maker TCHO has encouraged social entrepreneurship in developing countries through innovative supply chain practices.
Food
The Ethiopian Approach to Food Security
How one African country is changing how we feed the world.
Podcast
Global Issues
Social Entrepreneurship and Cocoa Farmers
TCHO company executive John Kehoe talks about the firm's goals in producing high-end products and helping farmers in developing countries.
Measuring Social Impact
Get Out of the Office
You’ll never get what’s going on out there by sitting in here.
Economic Development
Filling Out the Middle
The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs targets a "missing" segment in emerging economies.
Review
Environment
A Man of His Time
The founder of the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute pursues an unfinished agenda.
Foundations
Changemaker vs. Grantmaker
Three abilities every foundation needs to achieve long-term impact.