Growing Aid Where it Matters Most
When famine strikes, as it did last year in Somalia, international agencies begin asking for funds to feed starving and malnourished people. But where does the food itself come from? Most food aid is basically peanut butter—it’s a paste made of peanuts, dried milk, oil, sugar, vitamins and minerals...
Bring on Banking on Youth!
Social change isn’t rocket science; it’s just a matter of gumption and drive. Policy-makers, think-tanks, and academics aren’t the only ones with the power and ideas to change the world. Changemaking can belong to all of us. And nowhere is this dynamic potential more evident than among the emerging...
Souk el-Tayeb: Fellow Kamal Mouzawak’s Fresh take on the Culture of Lebanon
There's something special about food. The combinations of colors, aromas, and flavors come together in such wonderful ways that even just talking about it can make us salivate. And that's because food is about more than just what's on your plate -- it's about tradition, culture, and community...
Nourishing Schools in India
Ashoka and Swiss Re Foundation are partnering with schools to enable children to improve their own nutrition and that of their communities in India. In 2011 Ashoka and the Swiss Re Foundation started their journey on exploring how to improve the health status in India. An intense explorative phase...
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...
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.
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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Launching 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