The Nature Conservancy was recently selected as a winner for the Next Century Innovators Awards for its work with Water Funds. Concern over water scarcity has been a defining feature of the current era. Water …
Today, The Rockefeller Foundation launches the second book in its Centennial publications Series, Food & Prosperity: Balancing Technology and Community in Agriculture. From the Foundation’s earliest days, John D. Rockefeller and his program …
Today, The Rockefeller Foundation hosted an exciting online conversation as a follow-up to our recent summit in Abuja, Nigeria — “Realizing the Potential of African Agriculture.” We gathered experts from …
Of the 25 most densely populated counties in the United States, 23 are along a coastline. New York City has over 500 miles of coastline and, as Superstorm Sandy showed, …
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has named 2013 “the international year of quinoa”. This ancestral grain, native to Bolivia and Peru, has been heralded as a …
The Rockefeller Foundation has been working in Asia for nearly 100 years, and has undertaken a broad portfolio of philanthropic work, with a strong historical focus on health and agriculture. …
Cross-posted from This is Africa. In a speech to members of the Zimbabwean farming community in 1994, then-South African president Nelson Mandela remarked: “There are few better ways to show one’s …
Today, the 100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge opens for applications. The Rockefeller Foundation is also launching the official website for the Challenge, inviting individuals to join us in a global …
Global access to mobile technology is growing at a rate that outpaces even access to basic services like electricity, sanitation and banking. In fact, nearly 70 percent of the world’s …
A huge shift in thinking is occurring in African agriculture that holds great promise for the continent’s growing economies and for African farmers. Increasingly, African agriculture is viewed no longer …