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During my organization’s more than 50-year history, we have witnessed countless disasters and responded to famines, cyclones, earthquakes and wars that devastated communities and left trails of hunger and poverty in their wake.

Designing the Needle: How Gene Editing Can Transform Our Health and Planet

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Musim Mas and General Mills Collaborate to Build Smallholder Extension Services in Aceh's Leuser Ecosystem

Musim Mas & General Mills launched a joint program to build robust & sustainable extension services for the oil palm farmers in Indonesia. The initiative is part of an overall strategy to reduce deforestation by improving livelihoods.

Ecocentricity Blog: Walking and Chewing Gum

I’m a huge advocate for utility-scale solar. That doesn’t mean, however, that I think we’re doing it perfectly right now.

Impact Case Study: Mountain Hazelnuts

About 70 percent of Bhutan’s population lives in rural areas, with most depending on subsistence agriculture, with an average farm size of 1.7 hectares. With much of Bhutan too steep, too high or too cold to farm, only 8 percent of land is cultivable

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