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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Photo by Darla Hueske on Unsplash Travel across the United States today, and you’ll find in many small towns a towering grain elevator or a similar agricultural edifice looming over the rusty train tracks. Decades of policy changes, however, often under the radar, today inhibit many diverse kinds of association. [We

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What Is an Ethical Supply Chain—And Why Does It Matter?

NonProfit Quarterly

Deforestation is occurring in the Amazon at an alarming rate, primarily driven by the demand for agricultural commodities. This company operates in the Ucayali region of Peru, an area that has become a hotspot for palm oil production and associated deforestation. However, the report stresses that more needs to be done.

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Gather, Share, Build

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Even those in competition with one anotherfor example, different purveyors of agricultural planning tools in low-income countriescan achieve co-benefits and amplify their impact by contributing to a shared data infrastructure. Right now, even the data that does exist is too siloed.

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The AI-Powered Nonprofits Coding a Greener Future

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For small-scale farmers in emerging markets like India, Kenya, and Nigeria, agricultural extension agents are crucial lifelines. They provide Climate-Smart Agriculture practices, deliver market and pricing information for farmers to maximize income, and help farmers connect with local suppliers.

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What do you believe are the most critical areas for improvement to achieve your mission?

Blue Avocado

Our main goal for 2025 at the Shirley-Eustis House Association is to build a broader network of businesses, institutions, and well-connected individuals who know about us and what were doing. Suzy Buchanan from Shirley-Eustis House Association Expanding our reach to better support the LGBTQ+ community. Help us help the world.

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What Nigeria Can Teach the US About Food Insecurity

NonProfit Quarterly

In Nigeria, as in the US, people are looking for ways to fight food insecurity and maintain agricultural production amidst climate change and the changing rainfall patterns—including increased flooding—that it is triggering. Floodplain agriculture allows floodwaters to deposit nutrient-rich sediment across a wide area.

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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. Usually, these costs are borne by the weakest link, and in agriculture, that’s the farmer. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs. The Business Path for Addressing Inequality.