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November 18, 2022
Sustainable Supply Chains: Future Proofing by Farmer-Focusing
Generating much-desired equilibrium by embracing price stability..
November 18, 2022
Supporting Women Farmers in the Age of Climate Change: Why It’s Time To Look at Agriculture Solutions Through Both a Gender and Climate Lens
Combining a gender and climate lens to support women farmers..
November 9, 2022
OPINION: Time to scale-up nature-based solutions to forge a low-carbon and climate-resilient future for India
Restoring nature is a critical strategy for addressing climate impacts, surging extremes, and biodiversity collapse.
November 9, 2022
International Rural Women’s Day 2022: Reaching women farmers with information on climate smart agriculture
Climate-smart agriculture practices identified by women in Uganda.
August 20, 2022
Natural option: Organic, natural farming not only profitable & sustainable but also productive
Long-term evidence on holistic benefits of organic and natural farming.
August 20, 2022
Reimagining the Future of Food With a Systems-Based Approach
How Acumen is Empowering Systems Leaders to Transform the Future of Food
August 20, 2022
Gender Norms On and Off the Farm: Engaging Smallholder Women in Finance and Climate-Smart Agriculture
How gender norms influence the behavior of actors in the financial system.
July 15, 2022
Sustainable Solutions for the World’s Failing Food Systems: Acceso’s CEO Discusses its Innovative Approach
The main ways Acceso supports social enterprises
July 15, 2022
Mastercard and Ecobank Group partner to digitize agricultural value chains in Africa and empower millions of smallholder farmers through digital and financial inclusion
Innovative solution that helps connect smallholder farmers to agricultural ecosystems
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06 Key Lessons for informing policy decisions: Mainstreaming tribal-specific climate adaptive capacities in vulnerable coastal regions within National Action Plan on Climate Change
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Five Key Lessons for Policy Consideration: Scaling Climate Action Programs for Landless Rural Communities in Semi-Arid Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin in South Asia
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GST 2.0 and Tax Cuts: Can They Make Growth Fairer and Greener?
India's latest GST reform, being termed as GST 2.0, is more than just slashing rates. By simplifying the tax structure, cutting levies on essentials, and supporting renewable infrastructure, it's open..
Reimagining Sports in CSR: From Tokenism to a Vehicle for Multiplying Impact
In 2023–24, Indian companies spent about ₹1,396 crore of their CSR budgets on sports — just 4% of the total ₹34,909 crore Indian corporates spent on CSR that year. Most of the rest went to edu..
Interactive SHG Map of India: 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups are spread across 27 States and 6 UTs in India
Under the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), India has 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups (SHGs) spread across 27 states and 6 Union Territories. Each of these small, self-governed, and peer-co..