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  The following piece opens a month-long focus on health in the lead up to the 2018 World Health Assembly.  Later this month, global health experts from all over the planet will travel to Geneva, …

In the decade leading up to the 2008 economic recession, global health policy experts increasingly argued that countries needed stronger health systems if they ever hoped to accelerate their hard-won …

Today, 40 percent of all food produced is never eaten, which is the equivalent of throwing nearly $1 trillion right in the trash—lost labor, water, energy, profits to small farmers, …

The term impact investing was coined just over ten years ago at The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy. At the time, the Foundation recognized a staggering gap between global …

An early-morning fresh market in the middle of Salingyi town in Central Myanmar is bustling with farmers, traders, and entrepreneurs coming from surrounding villages to sell assorted agricultural produce and …

The Rockefeller Foundation shares complete series of artistic work from the Bellagio Creative Arts Fellows program.   Contemporary art reflects the world in which it is made—the identities and politics, dreams, and …

It has been over a year since the Colombian government signed a peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a guerrilla group, to end the country’s long-standing …

  As the first city within the 100 Resilient Cities to publicly issue environmental impact bonds, the City of Atlanta is boldly advancing a movement to make cities more resilient. Being first …

Women’s economic empowerment is experiencing a resurgence of attention. This is inspired by Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG5), which lays out goals for gender equality and women’s empowerment, and is …

After giving birth to her third child, Sarah* lay in a hospital bed in a small town in Meru County, Kenya, battling a ruptured appendix. While struggling to stay alive, …