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Sustainable Energy

Interview: Bringing light and stoves to rural East Timor

Lack of energy access does more then keep households in the dark: it also limits economic development and exacerbates health problems. An interview with Will Barron about innovative ways to make solar electricity and efficient cookstoves available in the marketplace in Timor-Leste.

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Social Enterprise

New ideas about social entrepreneurship: Yes, they still exist

Social enterprise is so new that many aspiring entrepreneurs don’t know where to begin. They can now find their way thanks to a new guide stocked with advice from the field.

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An interview with Global Envision's founder on our 10th anniversary

When many youth and NGOs protested the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference in Seattle in 1999, Global Envision’s founder Bill Early saw an opportunity to create a dialogue about how globalization and capitalism could help lift people out of poverty. This idea eventually became Global Envision.

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Financial Inclusion

Interview: Mobile services a ‘game changer’ for financial inclusion

Pairing information access with mobile cash services opens new doors for farmers and other low-income residents of developing countries.

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Mobile Technology

Coming to America: Mobile money. Why NGOs should care

Mobile money's wildfire spread across the developing world has been so successful that it's about to remake the rich world, too.

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Value Chains

Quotable: Land O'Lakes seeds economic opportunity and peace through dairy farming

How do you boost farmers in post-conflict regions like Sri Lanka? Jon Halverson of Land O'Lakes discusses how the U.S. dairy co-op blended commercial and development work in an interview on DevEx.

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Value Chains

Why smart multinationals are creating awards for social innovators

What would the Academy be without the Oscars? What would NCAA basketball be without March Madness?

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Value Chains

Chocolate shortage by 2020? How mini loans could save the day

Social lenders aren't meeting poor farmers' financing needs. If commercial buyers don't provide more capital, the world could face shortages of luxury cash crops.

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Social Enterprise

For NGOs, self-measurement is rare but precious

Each year, promising new approaches to global problems fail. Better evaluations could tell us why.

Coca-Cola is the most widely distributed American product on the planet

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Quotable: Coca Cola CEO on cracking the code for growth

The key to solving the employment issues and, better still, the key to cracking the code for growth—because growth will bring employment to the world—will be generating new models, new models about business opportunities.

Neal Keny-Guyer, Mercy Corps CEO, discusses ways technology can help the poor benefit from the formal financial sector. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldeconomicforum/6777384419/">World Economic Forum (flickr)</a>

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Financial Inclusion

Three ways digital cash helps the poor

Traditional financial services aren't working for the poor. The problem? Paper.

Malawian boys are proud of their family's dairy cows. Photo: Jennifer Hyman/Land O'Lakes International Development

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Value Chains

Land O'Lakes finds success with dairy micro co-ops in Malawi

The top US dairy cooperative has brought decades of expertise to Malawi, creating micro co-ops that pool their milk for purchase by one of the country's largest processors.

Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/abufaiqa/4434157815/sizes/z/in/photostream/">Salim Photography (Flickr)</a>

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Mobile Technology

From designer crops to social stocks: Our top five posts of 2012

It's holiday season here at Mercy Corps headquarters—time for the Global Envision team to look back on our work this year and look to what's next.

Photo: Thatcher Cook/Mercy Corps

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Social Enterprise

Interview: Healthy food carts for kids get a boost from a healthy global partnership in Indonesia

This article was republished by The Christian Science Monitor.

Rural Vietnamese hope to benefit from community latrines. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wanhoff/2684767918/sizes/z/in/photostream/"> Flickr </a>

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Value Chains

Unilever will train rural Vietnamese to build demand for toilets

Unilever is rejecting the latrine handout model in favor of a sanitation market sourced and supported wholly by local entrepreneurs.

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