Funder-owned strategies often reinforce donor-grantee power imbalances and focus on short-term measurable gains, thereby ...

Cooling innovation helps food hawkers who cannot afford conventional refrigeration.

Diaspora Co. strives to bring South Asia’s heirloom and single-origin spices to the United States while ensuring that partner farms and farmworkers thrive.

Global and systemic challenges can be addressed more effectively with strategies that are collectively owned.

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Conventional needs-based development policies can be harmful to informal businesses. Instead, development professionals must ...

Conventional needs-based development policies can be harmful to informal businesses. Instead, development professionals must ...

Kenyan fishing villages are restoring their mangroves in exchange for carbon credits and better fish stocks. Their ...

Companies that adopt nonhierarchical organizational structures require deliberate efforts and collective planning to succeed.

The Icelandic startup Melta transforms community food waste into fertilizer, with the goal of cutting emissions and promoting sustainable farming in Iceland.

SSIR’s new issue delves into ownership in both the straightforward and metaphorical senses and how the idea grounds a ...

Research demonstrates that social enterprises are political actors that seek to influence public policy and sociocultural ...