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Organizing a Community Around Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

At present, one of UNEC’s most critical projects is to convene a multi-partner collaboration in the city’s Northeast Corridor neighborhoods to transform our local food system. I’ve observed the inner workings of a complex food system that, when it functions well, nourishes our bodies, families, and cultures.

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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.

Food 122
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Harnessing the Potential of Remittances

Stanford Social Innovation Review

These cross-border payments not only support individual livelihoods, but they also help alleviate poverty by providing financial resources for basic needs like healthcare and education, enhancing national economic stability , and helping to take the pressure off burdened social services system s. billion in 2021 and $20.1

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We Must Be Founders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A third of the people in this country, nearly 100 million, live below 200 percent of the federal poverty level , where the loss of income from even a short-term illness can be insurmountable. The expanded (but now expired) child tax credits alone cut childhood poverty by 30 percent in only six months. This work is urgent.

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Big Bets for the Long Haul

Stanford Social Innovation Review

New private sector enterprises have a well-established conveyor belt, from angel investment to venture capital to private equity to public (stock) markets, rewarding the most successful with ever larger injections of capital. percent of climate adaptation finance need of smallholders is currently being met by all actors combined.

Finance 118
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Impact Investing for the Missing Middle in Agri-Finance

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Smallholder farmers and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) make up the bulk of agri-food businesses worldwide, accounting for a significant part of all formal agribusinesses and more than half of their full-time workforces. A long investment horizon of up to 10 years Only in the agri-food value chain. But there is more.

Finance 121
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Scaling Deep, Not Up: Lessons from Detroit

NonProfit Quarterly

The next Google or Facebook has yet to emerge from places plagued by chronic poverty, and even when a high-tech sector sets foot in low-income regions, it often exacerbates income inequality. Yet, these attempts have not significantly reverted economic decline. As a result, the ventures’ growth was not fast, but steady and durable.