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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and a video even better, so I'm going to show you a brief video clip about The Rockefeller Foundation's Digital Jobs …

Cross-posted from This is Africa.  Africa accounts for less than 3 percent of global emissions, yet our continent is widely recognized to be the most vulnerable to the effects of climate …

Next Century Innovators Award winner Innovate Salone discusses unifying innovation with social impact, how to reduce global inequity, and the growth of their Innovate Network. Why do you believe that innovation is …

Resilience isn't only a necessity for cities to withstand and bounce back from disasters. It's also good for business. In an op-ed in the Guardian yesterday, Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin …

Excerpted from This is Africa. Whether it is traditional bank lending or private equity, and from major agribusiness to microfinance, one theme stands out — a change in mindset is needed, …

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 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, …

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 …

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 …