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Business

Will Consumers Pay for Sustainability?

By Paul Rice

An excerpt from Every Purchase Matters on virtuous premiums

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Food

Back to Life

By Stephanie Anderson 1

An excerpt of From the Ground Up on the women who are regenerating agriculture

Food

Reimagining the Spice Trade

By Marianne Dhenin

Diaspora Co. strives to bring South Asia’s heirloom and single-origin spices to the United States while ensuring that partner farms and farmworkers thrive.

Food

Sharing Meals

By Nessa Richman 4

Food systems leadership as a pathway to civic engagement

Environment

A Sustainable Sealant

By Anne Lagamayo

A Filipino aeronautical engineer has invented an organic sealant using the pili tree’s spent resin.

Impact Investing

Impact Investing for the Missing Middle in Agri-Finance

By Wouter Vandersypen, Chris Claes & Steven Serneels 2

How an innovative stakeholder-shareholder investment model is helping smallholder farmers grow and thrive.

Technology

Technology on the Farm

By Vijaya Sunder M & Siddhartha Modukuri

Outgrow combines digital technologies and India’s ancient agricultural wisdom to support small-scale farmers.

Philanthropy & Funding

Cultivating a Just Climate Philanthropy

By Claire McGuinness & Matthew Forti 1

How climate funding and policy exclude those who experience the worst effects of climate change, and how investing in smallholder farmers can help right the ship.

Business

Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

By Lisa Manley & Iris van der Velden 1

How businesses can transform procurement practices to strengthen farmer livelihoods and improve environmental impacts.

Food

Resistant Rice

By Marcie Bianco

New genome sequencing has produced saline-resistant and flood-tolerant rice.