Agricultural value chain bears fruit
Local foods and other homegrown products are a specialty at the Siem Riep Farmers Market, an upscale supermarket in northern Cambodia. The yellow-flesh watermelons on [...]
GFRAS Report: Digital Advisory Services – Global Lessons in Scaling Up Solutions
The Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) has performed, between May 2022 and August 2023, an examination of the status of Digital Advisory Services [...]
Institutional Innovation to facilitate low-cost organic certification- How participatory guarantee systems work in Vietnam
Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) and short organic supply chains have emerged as promising solutions for smallholder farmers to provide organic produce to nearby consumers. PGS [...]
Solar Dreams and Agriculture Revival: the RenKube way!
Generally, traditional solar installations in traditional dry arid lands typically have a return on investment (ROI) in about five to eight years. However, implementing solar [...]
Social Entrepreneurship in India: Quarter Idealism and a Pound of Pragmatism
A book by an Indian academic on social entrepreneurship was long overdue. The nascent twenty-first century field of social entrepreneurship has expanded significantly since, among [...]
The Seaweed Revolution: How Seaweed has Shaped our Past and can Save our Future
Life on earth originated in the ocean millions of years ago and only very recently – in evolutionary terms – has begun to evolve outside [...]