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Some critical challenges such malnutrition have been a problem since the beginning of humanity. Others, such as waste or pollution, are the result of modern lifestyles and rapid population growth. …

Leading figures from governments, civil society, and corporations from around the globe are gathering at the Foundation's Bellagio Center on Lake Como, Italy today to imagine a different kind of …

Protests and other expressions of civil unrest often seem to outside observers to have arisen from out of nowhere. Even to people intimately connected to the issues, the speed at …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The idea for the Joint Learning Network (JLN) was seeded during a 2009 meeting when country experts and global health partners discussed the possibility of strengthening ways for knowledge exchange, …