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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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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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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

Governments representing deeply indebted nations are often unable to invest in health care, education, and other services, which, in turn, threatens their very political survival. Moreover, developing countries typically lack key technologies and financial resources that could help them become more resilient to climate change and its impacts.

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Building Supply Chains Where Smallholder Farmers Thrive

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. Besides perpetual food insecurity, many are unable to access or cover basic health services, housing, transportation, water and sanitation, or education.

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The Urgent Need to Reimagine Data Consent

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Civil society and humanitarian organizations are attuned to the reality that these streams of people generate massive amounts of data that can, for instance, help channel aid to the neediest, predict disease outbreaks, and much more. data linkage in health research) and areas in which the public was concerned (i.e.