This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use, and Energy (FABLE) Consortium recently published its second global report analyzing pathways for 20 countries to develop sustainable land-use and food systems. The FABLE Consortium is convened…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With the explosive growth of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing in recent years, it appears that we may be at or approaching an inflection point. As ESG investing becomes…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past 12 years working in nonprofit and private sector international aid, spending quite a bit of time embedded in benefiting communities, my teams and I have developed a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As countries try to stall the planet’s spiral into a sixth mass extinction, it’s not always clear what, if anything, is working. There are plenty of news stories about what isn’t:…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A pair of recent studies show that rising temperatures are shortening the lives of trees in tropical forests and reducing their capacity to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With lives, resources, and patience on the line, the global COVID-19 vaccine distribution process is the performance of a lifetime with no opportunity — or time — for rehearsals. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After a year of climate change being a top media story and public policy concern in many countries, attention is and will be rightfully focused on COVID-19 for some time.…
During a panel discussion organized by Food Tank, the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), experts argue for a participatory, inclusive, systems-based approach to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giant kelp forests are a wonder of the underwater world. They share many similarities with terrestrial forests: lush understories, diverse fauna, and verdant canopies that stretch skyward toward the sunlight.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Researchers have been collecting and disseminating a global COVID-19 behavior survey since July 2020. The survey has reached nearly 1.7 million participants in 67 countries. The most recent data was…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the early 2010s, GiveDirectly gave the poorest households in rural western Kenya big unconditional cash transfers (UCTs), roughly equivalent to a year’s income. A year later, the result was…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Female genital mutilation (FGM) is the practice of cutting and partially or entirely removing the external female genitalia, and also includes any other harm or injury caused to the female…