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- From the Forest to the Health Clinic
02/29/2016
Dr. Kinari Webb and her team are saving lives and forests in Indonesia through a very unusual incentives program.
02/29/16 - Southern Africa, a Region Chronically at Risk
01/25/2016
Southern Africa is preparing for a humanitarian disaster. Daniel Sinnathamby, regional humanitarian coordinator for Oxfam in the region, talks about the circumstances that are making this year especially challenging.
01/25/16 - "World Hunger: Ten Myths" by Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins
01/04/2016
Chapter by chapter, Frances Moore Lappé and her co-authors demolish the myths that have long prevented us from addressing hunger, and examine the policies that keep people from feeding themselves.
01/04/16 - A Storm in a Bucket: Lessons from the Ice Bucket Challenge Controversy
08/22/2014
Fun-based activism such as the Ice Bucket Challenge does not persuade you; it mobilizes you. That's why it's been so successful.
08/22/14 - Of Moonshots and Slingshots
06/18/2014
Only if policy people and technologists work together better will we change the world in ways that are congruent with our most critical human needs and planetary risks.
06/18/14 - Poverty Is Never Just One Problem at a Time
11/25/2013
Only a multidimensional approach can determine who is poor, how they are poor, and which deprivations they experience simultaneously. Indian policymakers need these details.
11/25/13 - Innovating Aid
11/18/2013
Neha Bhat talks with innovators in humanitarian and development aid about new and efficient solutions to the crises of our time.
11/18/13 - The Kasiisi Porridge Project Story
02/24/2012
An innovative NGO in Uganda has helped bring daily porridge to hungry schoolchildren, and it is now expanding with a 20-acre multipurpose farm and indigenous forest to make the project sustainable.
02/24/12 - Valid Solutions for Malnutrition
04/05/2011
Health and nutrition pioneer Steve Collins is building a social enterprise to battle severe acute malnutrition with ready-to-use therapeutic foods grown and manufactured in the developing world.
04/05/11 - Witness to the Quake
03/18/2011
Yuki Hanyu, a research scientist at Tohoku University in Sendai, wrote this report on the devastating earthquake in Japan, summarizing his situation in the immediate aftermath and giving us a rare glimpse of what it was like to be at the center of the disaster.
03/18/11 - Peer-to-Peer Microfinance Empowers Young Entrepreneurs
11/02/2010
United Youth Development Organization facilitates peer-to-peer microlending between young people to tap their energy and innovation for sustainable entrepreneurship and development.
11/02/10 - A Chance to Dream
08/13/2010
The Shanti Bhavan school helped erase my illiteracy through an education not confined to the pages of a textbook; an education demanding open-mindedness; an education not tainted by prejudices based on gender or caste.
08/13/10 - Altered Genes and Their Vendors
08/12/2010
The evidence on both sides of the genetic modification debate is inconclusive, but attentive regulation could ensure crop safety in developed and developing countries.
08/12/10 - Migrant Detention Leads to Harm
06/30/2010
Detention is costly in economic and human terms. If EU states wish to sustain their migration management policies, they will have to rely more on non-custodial alternatives.
06/30/10 - The Future of Capitalism and Danger of Returning to Business as Usual
02/22/2010
When it comes to making sense of international finance and economics, the era of so-called scientific certainties is over. To address the structural challenges the world faces now, we need to explore the feasibility of global public policy.
02/22/10 - A Permaculture Strategy for Haiti
02/09/2010
Geoff Lawton of the Permaculture Research Institute discusses how to strategize and deploy sustainable local food production across Haiti as part of earthquake relief and long-term recovery.
02/09/10 - Developing a Reconciliation Indicator
01/19/2010
A composite indicator is needed to substantiate the impact of community-led reconciliation processes and to better target sustainable development aid in post-conflict zones.
01/19/10 - Micro-donations Can Make a Massive Difference in Global Health
11/30/2009
Policy Innovations talks with Bernard Salome, managing director of the Millennium Foundation, about raising funds for global health through small donations made when people purchase travel.
11/30/09 - America Shouldn't Blow an Opportunity for Green Diplomacy
11/03/2009
By not being a global leader on climate change over the past decade America has blown a major opportunity to engage in Green Diplomacy -- the strategic use of clean energy projects to boost development and security in poor countries.
11/03/09 - The G-20's Global Hit-and-Run
04/24/2009
The economic crisis has been compared to familiar catastrophes such as the sinking Titanic and a tsunami. But the car crash analogy works much better for moral judgments about who should bear the costs of the financial crisis.
04/24/09