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Food Is Her Fight and Her Freedom: Regaining Ground in Rural India

Stanford Social Innovation Review

With 65 percent of the population living in rural areas, agriculture is increasingly feminized where women perform 80 percent of farm work. Once the cooperative was set up with support from civil society 10 years ago, the collective progress has become visceral.

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Transitional philanthropy

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Ways of life from agriculture to writing , architecture to transportation are transitioning. After decades of research and advocacy and warnings we are now living through the weather and natural disaster effects of climate collapse. We're also more than a few meters down the pitch of living with pervasive artificial intelligent systems.

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Reading List: Bridging Divides to Create Social Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Stanford Social Innovation Review ’s 2022 Nonprofit Management Institute (NMI) will focus on opportunities to bridge the divides that exist in society. The conference will explore the role of civil society organizations in finding common ground, ways to facilitate collaboration, combatting disinformation, and other topics.

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Small Organizations: The Change That Systems Change Needs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The Zimbabwe Land and Agrarian Network brings together civil society organizations, traditional leaders, farmers, local authorities, and other groups in the land and agrarian sectors. Together, they address food security challenges related to climate change, land tenure, and agriculture productivity that smallholder farmers face.

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Betting on Migration for Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

While immigration policies have prioritized high levels of education or family ties—and the political conversation tends to presume a basic scarcity of jobs—critical jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and the care economy, including elderly care, cannot be automated.

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Debt-for-climate swaps can save the planet. Why aren’t they?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Additionally, they can leverage their considerable networks, including partners in governments, civil society groups, media outlets, and academic institutions, to publicize the benefits and potential of debt-for-climate swaps to their shareholders, stakeholders, and partners.

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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

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To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. Usually, these costs are borne by the weakest link, and in agriculture, that’s the farmer. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs. The Business Path for Addressing Inequality.