Environment
Brewing Fertilizer From Food Waste
The Icelandic startup Melta transforms community food waste into fertilizer, with the goal of cutting emissions and promoting sustainable farming in Iceland.
Food Innovative ways to increase access to food resources and improve food systems
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.
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Food Desert or Food Apartheid?
An excerpt from Hanna Garth's Food Justice Undone on how power dynamics warp progress
Transforming Organic Certification
Mexico's participatory guarantee systems are empowering small-scale farmers to compete with larger certified organic producers.
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Food Solidarity Economy
An excerpt from Feeding the Future on civilizational transition to regenerative food systems
Making Behavioral Science Work for Conservation
At its core, conservation is about behavior change. Yet few organizations have put in place the structure, standards, and accountability needed to apply behavioral science effectively.
SSIR’s 2025 Social Innovation Reading List
Highlights of this year’s book reviews and excerpts on topics including gun violence prevention, cash transfers, refugees, regenerative agriculture, adapting to climate change, reinventing solidarity, and more.
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Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
Retailing with Heart
At Panera Cares cafés, there’s a donation box where customers pay on the honor system.
Disseminating Orphan Innovations
Disseminating innovations takes a distinct, sophisticated skill set, one that often requires customizing the program to new circumstances, not replicating.
Fast Food and the Family Farm
It’s time to reform how we grow food and what we have for dinner, says Bruce Boyd, principal and managing director at Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors.
Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive
How businesses can transform procurement practices to strengthen farmer livelihoods and improve environmental impacts.