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Big Ideas and Emerging Innovations

Highlighting approaches, technologies, and ideas that have the potential to radically advance sustainable and nutritious food security globally.


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Guest Commentary- Getting the Climate-Smart Message Across at Davos

The nexus between climate change, development and growth will be high on the agenda at Davos. But are the global elite really grasping the lengths we need to go to in order to become “climate-smart” and safeguard our future and, in particular, our food supply?




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Betting on African Farmers: 2015 Gates Annual Letter

​Bill and Melinda Gates are making a big bet–that the lives of people in poor countries will improve faster in the next 15 years than at any other time in history thanks to breakthroughs in health, farming, banking, and education.  

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| By Richard C. Longworth

A Misguided View on Technology and Humanism

One of New York’s literary lions, Leon Wieseltier, has written a cry of despair over the impact of technology, of data and quantification and the other components of our digitalized society, on society itself and the very notion of what it means to be human.