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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

Traditional state-centric security frameworks can actually generate insecurity through militarization that escalates the potential for conflict, through surveillance that undermines civil liberties, through resource diversion from human development, and by the exclusion of key voices from security decisions.

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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.

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Mapping the Landscape of AI-Powered Nonprofits

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In this way, generative AI is also being used to create curriculum for teachers, support agriculture workers, and empower community health workers. They may still be able to create value by deploying AI for internal operations. Nonprofits and civil society belong at the forefront of AI. Translating This category is AI to.

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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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Debt-for-climate swaps can save the planet. Why aren’t they?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For example, a study of one debt-for-nature swap carried out in 2009 between the US and Indonesia found that the value of the swap was too small to create meaningful budgetary room for Indonesia or to generate positive indirect economic effects on the country.

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The Urgent Need to Reimagine Data Consent

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Civil society and humanitarian organizations are attuned to the reality that these streams of people generate massive amounts of data that can, for instance, help channel aid to the neediest, predict disease outbreaks, and much more. Today, the term social license is defined in multiple ways.