The Rockefeller Foundation's Dr. Gary Toenniessen discusses how a 1969 Bellagio Center convening helped launch CGIAR and reshape global food and agricultural aid.
We need to acknowledge the importance of weaving networks. Authoritarian fascism is rising everywhere. All of us are trying to confront it and survive this wave.
Climate affects health. It affects access to care. It affects migration and the availability of food and water. And women are often disproportionately impacted.
Moving the needle on our planet’s most pressing issues, from gender and racial justice to economic inequity to climate change, requires us to recognize and support feminist leaders and invest in grassroots efforts.
The greatest goal is to raise awareness and visibility of gender-based crimes. People have to see them, to see those victims, because they have existed probably in every conflict throughout time.