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From Uprooted to Uplifted: The Movement to Restore Indigenous Land Rights

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Though these violations continue, over the last 10 to 15 years, we have increasingly seen momentum among rightsholders, their allies, and civil society in advocating for rights-based and community-led conservation. billion for this work over five years to consolidate otherwise fragmented financing streams.

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What Will It Take to Reimagine Security?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The good news is that there is demonstrable demand for seeding new forms of holistic problem-solving across previously siloed efforts in democracy protection, public health, climate action, social justice, and peace and security.

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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. Besides perpetual food insecurity, many are unable to access or cover basic health services, housing, transportation, water and sanitation, or education.

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Food Is Her Fight and Her Freedom: Regaining Ground in Rural India

Stanford Social Innovation Review

With 65 percent of the population living in rural areas, agriculture is increasingly feminized where women perform 80 percent of farm work. Once the cooperative was set up with support from civil society 10 years ago, the collective progress has become visceral.

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Mapping the Landscape of AI-Powered Nonprofits

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Three goals that stand out with especially strong potential to be transformed by AI are SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-Being), SDG 4 (Quality Education), and SDG 13 (Climate Action). As such, this series focuses on how AI-powered nonprofits are transforming the climate, health care, and education sectors.

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Small Organizations: The Change That Systems Change Needs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The organizations are improving water and sanitation access, education quality, food security, and health equity, and a large majority take systems change approaches to their work. Together, they address food security challenges related to climate change, land tenure, and agriculture productivity that smallholder farmers face.

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Betting on Migration for Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

While immigration policies have prioritized high levels of education or family ties—and the political conversation tends to presume a basic scarcity of jobs—critical jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and the care economy, including elderly care, cannot be automated.