Confronting The 1 Percent Directly
Credit: david_shankbone/ flickr By George Lakey When do activists get to confront the 1 percent directly, in a situation in which we can lay out our case and challenge them to answer? I don’t mean a...
View ArticleAfrica’s Emerging Middle Class Drives Growth And Democracy
Credit: bee9 By Pascal Fletcher After years of headlines about Africa’s poverty, its emerging middle class is now grabbing attention as a driver of growth and democracy. The emerging middle class has...
View ArticleThe Diaspora Can Help Fuel Rwanda’s Technology and Digital Ambitions
Credit: CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture/ flickr By Sean Obedih As Rwanda day 2013 comes to London for the first time, let me take this opportunity to talk about the role that the...
View ArticleResource Optimism
Credit: US Army Africa/ flickr By J.O’S Long before Baobab became a lowly journalist he scraped a living as a lowly academic. “If you’re so clever why aren’t you rich?” was a favourite tease of his...
View ArticleAgainst Famine And Empower Women Across The Sahel
Photo: UNAMID Photo/ Flickr By Caitlin Aylwarda Drought and high food prices in 2012 threatened the food security of over 18 million people in the Sahel Region of Africa, which includes parts of Chad,...
View ArticleBank Andara: A Bank For Banks In Indonesia Grows Micro Businesses And Turns A...
Photo: HSL WorkLife/ Flickr By Kyla Yeoman Indonesia has millions of micro-entrepreneurs and thousands of microfinance institutions. But because most institutions lack enough capital and established...
View ArticleWhy Social Sustainability Should Be Part Of Every Business
Photo: TheNHBushman.com PRO since 2006/ Flickr By Paul Rice I can’t think of anything that illustrates the human cost of doing business more than the tragedy this past April in Bangladesh. More than...
View ArticleSince The Ted Talk: Michael Pritchard On How He’s Helping End Water Poverty...
Photo: Kedume/ Flickr By Helen Walters Michael Pritchard is very likely the only person to have stood on the TED stage and uttered the immortal phrase, “Let’s get a bit of that poo in there.” At...
View ArticleWhy Sharing News About Solutions Is A Revolutionary Act
Photo: Teckie Kev/Flickr By Frances Moore Lappé “If it bleeds, it leads.” Ever hear that maxim of journalism? If you want readers, go with the scary, gruesome story—that’s what gets hearts pumping and...
View ArticleHigh Tech Farms
Photo: Bytemarks/Flickr By Daniel Hills The American farmer is a dying breed. The average age of the American farmer is 58, and less than 1% of the U.S. population identifies farming as their...
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