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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As the United Nations highlights, eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge and an absolute requirement for sustainable development. To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs.

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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. ” Before the cooperative, women were selling pineapples at a much lower price and were stuck in a cycle of poverty. The name literally translates to “lift one another up.”

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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.

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Starting With the State

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Justice systems are often inaccessible or ineffectual; in India, for example, the criminal and civil courts are so backed up that it would take an estimated 300 years to clear the backlog. All of this depresses economic activity and increases poverty. But the price of corruption is not evenly distributed.