Isabel DoCampo's blog By Jamie Anderson, Financial Sector Specialist, CGAP How are smallholder families managing their money? What challenges do they face? And what financial solutions can help? Answers to these questions are emerging after a year of ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog This post originally appeared on CGAP. By Erin Scronce, Communications Officer, CGAP The world’s 500 million smallholder families face unique financial challenges that are complicated and poorly understood. For greater insight ...
Louise Iverson's blog In their 2016 Annual Letter, Bill and Melinda Gates, co-chairs of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ask: “if you could have one superpower, what would it be?” Their answers point to key opportunities to improve the lives ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog Vietnam Tries New Tack in Climate-Change Battle: Teach a Man to Fish Vietnam has set out on perhaps its biggest-ever engineering project: A network of walls designed to hold back rising sea levels that are swamping fertile rice- ...
Kim Heys's blog Food Security Urbanizing World.jpg The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is pleased to launch a new blog series, “Growing Food for Growing Cities,” to explore the challenges posed to global food security by urbanization and the opport ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog By Frank Rijsberman, Chief Executive Officer, CGIAR Consortium Science enables us to perform marvels on this planet. From the first antibiotics to electricity and the X-ray, scientists have been transforming lives for centuries ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog Stephanie Mercier, Senior Policy and Advocacy Advisor, Farm Journal Foundation In 2009, the United Nations estimated that the urban share of the world’s population exceeded the rural share for the first time. By 2050, it is p ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog By Patricia Langan, Project Director, International Programs, Department of Hunger & Livelihoods, and Shawnee Hoover, Associate Director, Global Policy and Advocacy, Save the Children A stunning fact: nearly 70 percent of ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog By Sam Worthington, Chief Executive Officer, InterAction As Ethiopia faces its worst drought in 50 years, some of the ten million people in need of food, and the 400,000 children suffering from malnutrition, reside in the slums ...
Isabel DoCampo's blog By Jolyne Sanjak, Chief Program Officer, Landesa When land tenure experts like me write about the connection between land tenure and food security, we often focus on how secure rights to land tend to increase smallholder farmers ...
