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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

India’s fragrant spices, cornucopia of foods, and breathtaking biodiversity compelled despots and discoverers alike to traverse its mystical landscapes, from the mighty Himalayas to the valiant Deccan. And in doing so, they have relentlessly decolonized what land and food have meant for my people.

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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Smallholder farmers produce at least a third of the global food supply. 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.

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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 organizations are improving water and sanitation access, education quality, food security, and health equity, and a large majority take systems change approaches to their work. Together, they address food security challenges related to climate change, land tenure, and agriculture productivity that smallholder farmers face.

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Moreover, some debtors may be concerned that debt-for-climate swaps will have negative social or economic impacts, such as displacing people from certain occupations, undermining food security or industrial development, or encouraging more borrowing or environmental degradation in anticipation of future swaps.