This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Two weeks ago, India, the world’s second-largest producer of wheat by volume, announced export restrictions on the commodity. India’s wheat farmers are facing an estimated loss of 15 to 20 percent of…
By now, we all know the scale of the problem: Up to 13 million tons of plastic leaks into the ocean every year; this is equivalent to dumping one garbage…
As philanthropy and civil society players, we are all trying to understand how we can improve our society and planet, and we should care greatly about technological developments that are…
Our member, Save the Children, has a long history with clean water and WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) programs in the international settings where they work. Steve describes the history,…
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Underlining the seriousness of the situation, most countries shut their schools for months to minimize the spread of the coronavirus and to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For children, clean water means everything. It means staying healthy from diseases. It means having enough food to eat. It means the opportunity to go to school and improve their…
Over the last few years, there has been greater recognition that addressing society’s most deeply rooted inequalities requires moving power and resources into the hands of local leaders and directly…
A report published by The Global Alliance for the Future of Food and Transformational Investing in Food Systems (TIFS) Initiative reveals that social and environmental investments create sustainable, equitable, and…
Researchers have once again warned that climate change is likely to mean a hungrier world with less food on the table: by 2050, global crop yield could have fallen by 10…
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions due to land-use changes such as converting forests to agricultural land have been decreasing over the past 20 years, a decline that has been counterbalanced by…
Rural families in Bangladesh are using a large chunk of their budgets to protect themselves from climate change, especially households headed by women who are allocating up to 30 per…
Climate change has been accumulating slowly but relentlessly for decades. The changes might sound small when you hear about them – another tenth of a degree warmer, another centimeter of…