Our food system is broken. Here are 3 ways to fix it
The food system is unequal, unsustainable, unstable, and in need of transformation. We must take action - now.
The food system is unequal, unsustainable, unstable, and in need of transformation. We must take action - now.
The economist Diane Coyle uses six kinds of capital, from financial capital to social capital, to give a more nuanced view of the state of an economy.
Meeting the world's 21st-century energy needs means ensuring universal access, mitigating climate change and cleaning up air pollution.
Fintech’s magic ingredient is a virtuous feedback loop: it increases women’s ability to make smart business decisions, which bolsters their autonomy within the family and community.
Some 85% of the world’s workforce want the rules of the global economy rewritten, at a time of intense risk.
Recent technological advances are giving us a glimpse of the immense changes that consumption will undergo, says Coca Cola's Elaine Coventry.
Meeting the UN's Sustainable Development Goals will require bold new ways to finance projects in the developing world. Could this maternal health programme in India show the way?
Today, 80% of humanitarian aid goes to people affected by violence. Here's how to reduce – and one day, perhaps end – the scourge.
Depending on who you ask, the sharing economy is the engine of a post-capitalist economy, the poster child of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or the end of consumer civilization as we k...
Citizens are highlighting where big tech is out of step and failing to earn the trust of society. This is good, not bad news for tech companies.
Small businesses can benefit hugely from global trade, but they face many hurdles. 97% to 100% of technology-savvy small firms export, whereas only 2% to 28% of “traditional” SMEs do. Her...
Technology plays a critical role in helping humanitarian and development organizations tackle the urgent global problems we face.
With 8 billion subscriptions worldwide, mobile phone networks have the information responders need most: how many victims are there, and where are they?
The global humanitarian appeal for 2017 was a record $23.5 billion, targeting 93 million people in need of assistance. Aid money is no longer enough.
Robert Muggah and Taylor Owen explore global democracy and analyse fears that the liberal order is in decline.