Oct 07 2021
Field Note
Agriculture accounts for 40% of Ethiopia’s GDP, employing about three-quarters of the country's workforce. Three quarters of farmers are smallholders who work on farms of about 2 acres, earning $707 …
OCTOBER 2021
Oct 07 2021
Human Impact
Uganda has the 7th highest inland fishery production in the world: the sector supports the livelihoods of over 5.3 million Ugandans and provides direct employment to over 1.2 million people. …
Oct 06 2021
Field Note
On the western edge of Bastrop, Louisiana., just across the road from Delta Community College, a former Jordache Jeans factory that has been sitting empty for decades may soon come …
Oct 06 2021
Human Impact
Nigeria has Africa’s 5th largest cattle herd, yet the country imports most of the milk it consumes – $1.3 billion worth per year. Small scale pastoralists account for 95% of …
JULY 2021
Jul 21 2021
Human Impact
It’s Saturday at the Austin flea market, and Yolanda Perez, 55, is doing brisk business selling parakeets, canaries and other birds, along with their colorful, intricate cages. Commerce is returning …
Jul 21 2021
Blueprint
Covid-19 has swept through the world like no other disease in the last century. Since its start, we’ve seen economies upended, health systems stretched beyond their limits, and millions of …
JUNE 2021
Jun 16 2021
Human Impact
With the passing of the American Rescue Plan in March, more than 5 million children are projected to be lifted out of poverty this year, cutting child poverty by more …
Jun 11 2021
Field Note
When Amy L. Blouin was a divorced mom with two sons in diapers, years before she became the founder and CEO of the Missouri Budget Project, she learned firsthand what …
Jun 09 2021
Blueprint
In the United States, when you face an emergency, you dial 911 and an ambulance will be sent to your house to help. What if people living in poverty all over the world could dial a number to have cash delivered to them in a crisis?
Jun 09 2021
Blueprint
The nightmare scenario is that the coronavirus pandemic never truly ends. Making sure that never comes to pass has become the central focus of a global scientific effort to track the myriad evolutions of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.