From Eats to Electricity
A British entrepreneur hopes that by transforming food waste into biogas, his plant can help a community gain a sense of local environmental stewardship.
A British entrepreneur hopes that by transforming food waste into biogas, his plant can help a community gain a sense of local environmental stewardship.
Borrowing from the renewable energy sector, we can create a better food system by organizing regional governments to create markets for smaller producers and establishing coordinated networks that can amplify best practices.
In bringing the nutrition cohort a carefully calculated strategy, patient capital, and a willingness to let go, Newman’s Own Foundation is demonstrating success at the heart of the collaboration challenge.
The number of urban gardens in Detroit has been increasing as people seek to put abandoned land to better use.
There’s a set of common questions every direct-service nonprofit should answer to maximize learning, action, and impact.
A free food project on New York's waterways challenges residents to imagine how we might adapt to a more resource-constrained world.
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.
Promising practices for corporates, investors, and entrepreneurs to drive long-term innovation and avoid an investment bust.
We need more risk-takers and innovators who can offer end-to-end support to smallholder farmers facing climate vulnerabilities and other challenges.
For-profit executives use business models—such as "low-cost provider"—as a shorthand way to describe the way companies are built and sustained. Nonprofit executives have not had an equivalent lexicon—until now.
More investors need to bet on early-stage social ventures that cover all the bases, and more entrepreneurs need to build them.
The technology-driven model of agriculture may offer a means to address farm output and food security in the years to come.
EnerGaia is growing spirulina to feed people and help the environment.
To feed the world’s growing population, we must do more to promote the success of urban farms through better tracking, financial incentives, land use, and support systems.