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Challenging the conventional: Growing innovation in the developing world
Image: Agriculture and technology are synonymous in Israel. The Israeli Pears Challenge wants Kenya to join Israel as a leader in agri-tech and strengthen Kenyan food security.Israel has been...
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Rural youth seek greener pastures in the city, but farming could get hot
This article was republished by The Christian Science MonitorEven on the farm, it pays to be young, but every year, young people are "escaping" their hometown rural communities to seek the "greener...
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In Kenya, a mobile dairy app drives profits skyward
A relatively new mobile app has helped dairy farmers in Kenya increase their profits by 42 percent. Created by Green Dreams Tech Ltd. in 2010, iCow provides smallholder farmers in Kenya with...
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GMO wars should take back seat to other farm issues, says DuPoint Pioneer
A corporate seed manufacturer is suggesting that slowing the spread of genetically modified crops would be acceptable, if that's what it takes to keep industrializing Africa's farms.Simply swapping in...
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As climate becomes a moving target, 'virtual crops' aim for the future
Climate change is threatening crop survival. Some researchers believe the solution lies in "virtual crops."Using state-of-the-art computer modeling, scientists are identifying stress-resistant...
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How broken value chains prevent Africans from feeding Africa
Africa has plenty of rich agricultural land but millions of starving residents. The problem is that too much money is going to the wrong places along the way.The Guardian has a crisp summary of a new...
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Devil take the hindmost? Haiti peanut battle puts NGOs head to head
When antipoverty nonprofits compete, it's not always clear who will lose more: the one whose business is threatened, or the people both nonprofits set out to serve.Meds and Food for Kids (MFK) and...
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On World Food Day, praise for a humble business structure: The co-op
For agriculture cooperatives, this year’s World Food Day has been a day in the sun.Given the right support from governments, civil society and private institutions, agriculture cooperatives “could...
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Don't panic, environmentalists: A richer world can be a better one
Forty years ago, a shocking report tagged economic growth as the catalyst for environmental collapse. Now, a new article claims the world's responses to that forecast failed to make things...
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INFOGRAPHIC: Better info, seeds, tools and storage - What any farmer needs to...
Falling into the "easier-said-than-done" infographic category, The Gates Foundation and GOOD do have a point: straightforward solutions can often yield high returns. In The Atlantic last week, Isobel...
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Portland hosts the West Coast Premier of "Design With the Other 90%: CITIES"
Of the world’s 7 billion people, 1 billion now live in urban slums. Faced with uncertain land security, limited access to basic services like sanitation and clean water, and crowded living conditions,...
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Extreme poverty could end by 2030, but the planet might pay for it
The world’s soaring wealth will nearly wipe out poverty worldwide by 2030, according to the National Intelligence Council. But as people want more stuff, the fight for resources is just heating up.The...
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A dung-powered milk chiller could power profit at small dairies
Warm milk spoils—and millions of the world's energy-poor rural farmers have no way to keep it cool.If only the bovine digestive system also produced some sort of vast and seemingly endless flow of...
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TV makeover show shapes up East African agricultural economies
Edutainment company Mediae's latest recipe to revive rural livelihoods in Kenya mixes agricultural education and reality TV, with a pinch of celebrity and a dash of drama. What is Shamba...
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'The only sustainable way to improve poverty is to educate and employ': 8...
A child squeezes the last bit of Medika Mamba ("Peanut Butter Medicine") out of its wrapper. Photo: Meds and Food for Kids.Over 23 years volunteering in Haiti, Dr. Patricia Wolff has seen the...
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Franchised manufacturing: For social enterprises, an idea worth copying
How do you get poverty-fighting products to the furthest corners of the globe the way that Coca-Cola gets its products there? Use the same strategy, obviously. An article last week in GOOD provides the...
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