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The great approach of philanthropy in support of the agroecological movement

August 13, 2023 By Alberta Guerra

I was really impressed by this article by the Agroecology Fund and the Global Greengrants Fund about their partnership and approach to fostering agroecology through direct support to grassroots movements and Indigenous Peoples. This is the kind of support I would love to see predominant in philanthropy because it embeds…

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Unacceptable: We are lagging in the fight against hunger, as people pay the highest costs

July 12, 2023 By Alberta Guerra

The recent launch of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report confirms the alarming reality of increased hunger in some regions of the world, namely the Caribbean, Western Asia, and all regions of Africa, with women and people living in rural areas being the groups…

Blog / Climate Justice

California: Wildfires are making us uninsurable. Quebec: Hold my beer.

June 7, 2023 By Brandon Wu

As luck would have it, I was in New York City today with many of my colleagues, and our allies from TIAA Divest!, Ekō and others. We were protesting TIAA’s continued harmful investments in fossil fuels and farmland outside the Bloomberg Invest conference where multiple TIAA executives were speechifying. We…

Blog / Climate Justice

Climate finance: quantity matters, but so does quality

June 5, 2023 By Brandon Wu

Last week, Reuters released a major investigative piece on climate finance The authors examined 10% of climate finance flows reported by developed countries to the UN, finding that: “at least $3 billion spent not on solar panels or wind farms but on coal-fired power, airports, crime-fighting or other programs that…

Blog / Climate Justice

Parts of the U.S. are becoming uninsurable due to climate change

June 1, 2023 By Brandon Wu

One of the bigger stories of this past weekend came with the bland heading “California New Business Update” – State Farm, the biggest homeowner insurance company in California, is no longer accepting new homeowner or property insurance applications from anyone in California. The reasons? Rising construction costs, “rapidly growing catastrophe…

Blog / Politics & Economics

Reflections from a wedding conversation on poverty eradication

May 23, 2023 By Katherine Coe

At a wedding I attended recently, I fell into an interesting conversation with another guest. She asked me what I ‘do’ (somehow the words ‘for work’ are always implicit in this phrase, yet rarely spoken out loud), and I shared that I fundraise for an international human rights organization. I…

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Food crisis becoming the new normal

May 3, 2023 By Alberta Guerra

The leaders of development agencies and big donors, such as the EU and the United States, gathered today to comment on the Global Report on Food Crises 2023, which is dramatically alarming. In the words of the World Bank Director during the launch: “food crises, once exceptional, are becoming the…

Blog / Land Rights

Land Grabs, Palm Oil, and Migration: The Tragic Story of Byron Lopez Xol

April 28, 2023 By Doug Hertzler

In a tearful interview in a Q’eqchi Indigenous community of Rio Zarquito in Alta Verapaz Guatemala, Florinda Noemí Xol, told Prensa Comunitario why her 25-year-old son, Byron Lopez Xol, had left to migrate to the United States and had perished along with 38 other migrants abandoned to die in a…

Blog / Disaster Response

Losing everything to water

April 25, 2023 By Meredith Slater

Every morning when I was a child, my dad would declare, in a sing-song voice – “There’s nothing like a nice, hot shower!” – as he stepped into the steaming shower and the first deluge of water hit the top of his head. It’s a motto that has stuck with…

Blog / Politics & Economics

Big Corporate Leadership Will Not Save Us

February 24, 2023 By Niranjali Amerasinghe

I was disappointed, on multiple levels, to hear about the Biden administration’s nomination of Ajay Banga, a private equity executive with no experience in public service, to head the World Bank. First, the U.S. should have no real right to unilaterally name the World Bank President – it does so…

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The great approach of philanthropy in support of the agroecological movement

Unacceptable: We are lagging in the fight against hunger, as people pay the highest costs

California: Wildfires are making us uninsurable. Quebec: Hold my beer.

Climate finance: quantity matters, but so does quality

Parts of the U.S. are becoming uninsurable due to climate change

Reflections from a wedding conversation on poverty eradication

Food crisis becoming the new normal

Land Grabs, Palm Oil, and Migration: The Tragic Story of Byron Lopez Xol

Losing everything to water

Big Corporate Leadership Will Not Save Us

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