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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. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs. What Doesn’t Work—and What Does. Usually, these costs are borne by the weakest link, and in agriculture, that’s the farmer.

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Choosing AI’s Impact on the Future of Work

Stanford Social Innovation Review

With better context-specific information, these workers could become more productive in the tasks they are performing and venture into new, more complex tasks. Companies must recognize that, in reality, labor is a critical resource for productivity growth. Alas, this more hopeful path is not where we are heading.

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The fervor of the British Raj, and now of transnational corporations and local elites, to shift lands from community ownership to private control of a few (usually) affluent men continues to denigrate women’s status from being equal and prolific members of an agrarian society to dependent wives with limited access to productive resources.

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Insurance in a Climate-Changed World

NonProfit Quarterly

Donors and governments may shift their dollars…to focusing on necessities like food, water, energy, and healthcare. Unless we act aggressively to curb emissions, climate change will continue to put pressure on our insurance system and society at large. Pressures on Civil Society Financial experts warn of cascading impacts.

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Education Transformation Against All Odds

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Three years into this effort, more than 50 schools have joined the movement, all aligned around a commitment to living the values of active citizenship, social justice, and good governance. The students devised and implemented a plan to market and sell their honey production.

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Why Organizers Need Mobilizers and Mobilizers Need Organizers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The implication is that we need to approach social change not like we are seeking a silver bullet, but rather in search of collaborative principles that allow different people power strategies to coexist and stimulate productive change together. Central Coordination In 2015 and 2016, GetUp!, However, GetUp! Rather than acting alone, GetUp!

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Small Organizations: The Change That Systems Change Needs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Together, they address barriers to safe and healthy diets through capacity building, strategic collaborations, and advocacy for increased resources, improved policies, and better government accountability. Across Africa, Guzakuza connects and supports women facing food system challenges.