Tag: Agriculture
Innovations in farming and agronomy that promote sustainability and advance social good
Philanthropy
High Stakes Donor Collaborations
Pioneering groups of foundations and philanthropists have pooled their talent and resources to help solve social sector problems too big for any one to tackle alone.
Food
Trading on Climate Change
Tanzania might benefit from unexpected trade opportunities resulting from climate change—but the country must enact policies to take advantage of them.
Social Entrepreneurship
Ideas Changing Minds or Money Changing Hands?
Development cooperation support for social innovators is an opportunity that calls for a focus on social and ecological funds and the networks that regenerate and sustain them.
Energy
Where are the Rio+20 Billions for Distributed Solar?
India and Africa are ideal markets for distributed solar—will some of the $513 billion in commitments made at Riio+20 get deployed there?
Food
The Last Hunger Season
One Acre Fund's Andrew Youn: "Agriculture is the fundamental humanitarian challenge of our time."
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Food
The Last Hunger Season
In The Last Hunger Season, Roger Thurow shares the experience of a year in Africa with four smallholder farmers.
Economic Development
Information as a Cash Crop
In East Africa, access to accurate, timely information is improving the livelihood of entrepreneurial farmers.
Food
Regionalizing US Food Systems
Exploring the role of regional models—takeaways from the University of Vermont’s first-ever food systems summit.