farmers.jpg Louise Iverson's blog In their 2015 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 i ...
Louise Iverson's blog By Alain Vidal, Strategy Director a.i. & Senior Partnerships Advisor, CGIAR Consortium The nexus between climate change, development and growth will be high on the agenda at Davos, as the Millennium Development Goals reach t ...
Kim Heys's blog youngfarmer_600x375.jpg Want to Create a New Generation of Farmers? Forgive Their College Debt The problem isn’t that young people aren’t interested in farming—it’s that millennials, carrying the burden of weighty student loans, simpl ...
Kim Heys's blog 3dprinter.jpg 5 Amazing Ways 3D-Printed Food Will Change the Way We Eat Researchers around the world are fiddling with ways to use 3D printers to make food. Their efforts could one day aid nutrition and sustainability. So far most of ...
Louise Iverson's blog By One Acre Fund One Acre Fund considers itself a member of the social entrepreneurship movement. That is, we belong to a category of nonprofit social enterprises whose efforts are guided by entrepreneurial ideals of constant ...
Louise Iverson's blog By Samrat Singh and Helen Roberts With the welcome news that Ebola infection rates seem to be abating and that new vaccines are being made available is that fact that millions in t ...
Louise Iverson's blog By Tim Fella, Land Tenure and Conflict Advisor, USAID There is an emerging global consensus that responsible agricultural investment requires agribusinesses and governments to recognize and respect local land and resource righ ...
Malnutrition1in2_600w.jpg Kim Heys's blog The Chicago Council is pleased to launch a new campaign, “Healthy Food for a Healthy World,” to build awareness about the important role food can play in promoting health and alleviating malnutrition. We will ...
Louise Iverson's blog Enabling Subsistence Agriculture through Small Dams Large agricultural development programs in Africa usually target commercial agriculture, which enables the export market. But what of the small scale farmers who depend on subs ...
valueofmarket2.jpg Anonymous's blog The Chicago Council is pleased to launch a new campaign, “Healthy Food for a Healthy World,” to build awareness about the important role food can play in promoting health and alleviating malnutrition. We will publi ...
