Agriculture

Tag: Agriculture

Innovations in farming and agronomy that promote sustainability and advance social good

A Compass for Change in High School Curricula

It is time to connect our classrooms with the world.

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Elusive Yardstick

Steve McCormick, president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, discusses one of the biggest challenges in the nonprofit world - how to evaluate progress and success.

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Defining Risk in Philanthropy

Steve McCormick, president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, discusses what risk really means to both nonprofits and foundations, and why foundations should take more risks.

Impact Within Reach

By Cameron Conaway

A social enterprise in Myanmar uses design thinking to create products that reflect an up-close view of what small-plot farmers need.

Tough Love

By Dennis Price & David Bank

How a dose of banking discipline strengthened financing for smallholder farmers.

The Power of Simple

By Lisa Benenson 1

How the Natural Resources Defense Council effectively unearthed and reframed compelling research to raise public awareness and effect policy change around food waste.

Can Big Nonprofits Get Big Results?

By Kelly Campbell, Shazeen Virani, & Jessica Lanney 2

How giant nonprofit networks are shifting their approach from serving communities to solving underlying problems.

Homing In on Realistic Impact Investment Strategies in Africa

By Rachel Keeler 1

Emerging insights indicate an opportunity for impact investors to better align commercial and social targets with market realities in Africa.

There Is No Such Thing as a Green Product

By Trevor Zink & Roland Geyer 11

Touting products like LEDs and recycled plastic packaging as “green” is misleading, because it fails to account for their effects on markets and consumer behavior and for the resulting environmental consequences. The authors offer what they say is a better approach: measuring the overall "net green" impact of the product.