Güneşin currently leads Buğday movement in Turkey, a natural conservation movement founded by late Ashoka Fellow Victor Ananias.
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From Standing Rock to Pine Ridge Reservation Community Sustainability: Ashoka Fellow NickTilsen
One of the Dakota Access Pipeline's most devoted protestors is making his strongest stand back in his hometown. On the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, Nick Tilsen, a 34-year-old member of the Oglala Lakota Nation and founding executive director of the Thunder Valley Community...
ABRIÓ LA PRIMERA TIENDA SUSTENTABLE "SABE LA TIERRA"
El primer restaurante “KM 0” de la Argentina ya funciona en Necochea. Desde Necochea, la Tienda Sustentable Sabe la Tierra se propone promover la creación de una nueva cultura de consumo, basada en la confianza de las cadenas cortas, el bien común, el medio ambiente, el desarrollo local, la vida...
Two Ashoka Fellows Join Forces to Launch the First Global Soil-to-Shelf Agtech Company
Tackling the twin challenges of global food security and smallholder farmer poverty: two Ashoka Fellows join forces to launch new co-venture Blooom
Paula Daniels is working to transform our food system through the nationally networked implementation of a powerful idea: the food purchasing of large institutions, which can and should better reflect society’s values of economic equity, environmental sustainability, and public health.
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Sylvia Banda: Growing Local Food Systems & Training Female Farmers
Ashoka Fellow Sylvia Banda created a network of training programs across the region and a mechanism to spread Zambian food around the world.
Florian Zech provides distressed youth with education opportunities, employment training and alternatives to crime and violence by establishing a dense network of safe and appealing spaces in townships across South Africa. These spaces operate as ‘docking stations’ for a cross-sectoral alliance of...
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With an emphasis on culinary skills, David Hertz and Gastromotiva offer a program for personal and professional development among marginalized young people from the favelas, enabling them to join the working world and even become entrepreneurs in their communities.
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By forming an inclusive coalition of supporters of local campaigns against caste injustice, Dr. Lenin helps citizen organizations diagnose and treat the caste origins of social conflict.
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Winnie Kubayi (South Africa 1998), the Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice, is working to ensure that the rights of women and children, enshrined in the South African Constitution, become part of a daily practice in the Criminal Justice system and not simply words on a very important...
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