Vega Coffee lifts up struggling coffee growers in Latin America by enabling them to roast, package, and ship their own beans directly to US customers—and reinvents the supply chain in the process.
The strategic alignment between business and corporate foundations, impact funds, and accelerators shows enormous potential for achieving social impact. But they can align in different ways, each with its strengths and weaknesses. A feature story in the Summer 2020 issue.
Companies seeking to do business in low-income markets often make the mistake of transferring assets from higher-income markets to fill perceived gaps. They should instead look to partner with those who live in these markets and to identify the assets already available there.
Consumers say they want to purchase ethically, but selective memory gets in the way of their decisions.
The Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network makes a business case for protecting Asian elephants.
Farmers in the Cordillera region of the Philippines prosper by selling heirloom rice, with help from a company called Eighth Wonder.
Many of the more than 355,000 smallholder coffee farmers in Rwanda are members of producer co-ops.
Let’s be ambitious about using innovative financing to help sort out global supply chains, provide catalytic capital for energy transition, and link talent in emerging markets to online marketplaces.
What business leaders need to know to create successful products and services for the poor in emerging markets.
Seven lending organizations are teaming up to meet the large-scale needs of smallholder farms in the developing world.
