Environment
A Sustainable Sealant
A Filipino aeronautical engineer has invented an organic sealant using the pili tree’s spent resin.
Tag: Farmers
Impact Investing
Impact Investing for the Missing Middle in Agri-Finance
How an innovative stakeholder-shareholder investment model is helping smallholder farmers grow and thrive.
Technology
Technology on the Farm
Outgrow combines digital technologies and India’s ancient agricultural wisdom to support small-scale farmers.
Philanthropy & Funding
Cultivating a Just Climate Philanthropy
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
How businesses can transform procurement practices to strengthen farmer livelihoods and improve environmental impacts.
Podcast
Social Enterprise
From Plow to Prosperity
Babban Gona provides the capital and means to move Nigeria’s poor farmers from a life of subsistence to economic security—and a model for alleviating poverty across Africa.
Podcast
Social Enterprise
A Fair Deal for Coffee Growers
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.
Collaboration
International Lessons on Building Resilient, Cross-Sector Partnerships
By focusing on three principles—shared goals, open acknowledgement of differing incentives, and the reduction of hierarchy and centralized strategy—organizations can build stronger partnerships, with an emphasis on action.
Scaling
Four Mindsets That Accelerate Nonprofit Growth
A reflection on how a set of strategies related to target-setting, financial modeling, program measurement, and organizational culture helped one organization reach a major milestone.