Economic Development
Lots of Opportunity
An online platform helps city governments to discover, organize, and market publicly owned property.
Tag: Land Rights
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Innovate and Scale: A Tough Balancing Act
Organizations need the ability to both scale up successful innovations and create new ones, even those that challenge the status quo.
Economic Development
A Plot of Land, a Path to Freedom
A valuable lesson for alleviating global poverty lies within the pages of African American history.
Water
Spring Water Protection Improves Health
Living near safe drinking water is not the same as drinking safe water.
Environment
From the Field: Indigenous Environmentalists Strive to Reforest Indonesia
In Indonesia, the issue of customary land rights is in debate.
Global Issues
The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.
Nonprofits
Curbing Mission Creep
Despite temptations to broaden its focus, the Rural Development Institute has remained single-mindedly devoted to its mission. As a result, the organization has helped 400 million poor farmers around the world take ownership of some 270 million acres of land – all on a modest budget.
Urban Development
The People’s IPO
Lower-income patrons of Market Creek Plaza can now invest in the shopping center.
Government
It All Started Here
Sidebar to "The Hidden Cost of Paradise:" The Miwoks were exterminated from Yosemite Valley.
Human Rights
The Hidden Cost of Paradise
Indigenous people are being displaced to create wilderness areas, to the detriment of all.