economic development

Filipino farmers plant rice. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20119750@N00/2680751025/">Schubert Ciencia (Flickr)</a>

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Social Enterprise

On World Food Day, praise for a humble business structure: The co-op

For agriculture cooperatives, this year’s World Food Day has been a day in the sun.

Food aid procured by the World Food Program in Tanzania has injected millions of dollars into the country's economy. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/theroadtothehorizon/2175363898/">Photo: WFP/Tom Haskell (Flickr)</a>

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By shopping local, the UN puts food aid to work for African economies

The benefits of food aid go beyond feeding the hungry.

Peanuts like these go into a nutritional peanut paste that is helping to save kids in Haiti. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nojhan/2919522850/">nojhan</a>

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Big Pharma helps export Haiti's hunger-busting peanut butter

This story was republished by The Christian Science Monitor.

Gap opens in Shanghai. Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kreep/">kreep (flickr)</a>

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Made in China: A slowly emerging consumer class

What would happen if you took off every article of clothing not made in America? asks ABC at New York’s Grand Central Station (video).
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A SELCO technician installing solar panels. Photo courtesy <a href="http://www.selco-india.com/image_gallery.html">SELCO</a>

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In India, SELCO blazes social trails to bring power to the people

Rags2Riches is helping Filipino women take back control of their livelihoods. Photo:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/francesco_veronesi/3938894552/in/photostream/">fveronesi1 (flickr)</a>

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Haute Couture With a Heart

High-fashion designs are turning impoverished Filipino mothers into living-wage artisans.

New organization Solar Sister is empowering women in rural Africa to star their own solar lamp businesses. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22146904@N04/4260762246/in/photostream/">IvanClow (flickr)</a>

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Solar Sister Seeks to Light Up Africa

A new organization seeks to light up the night in rural Africa by putting a twist on an all-American idea: the Avon lady.

View of Istanbul from Bogazici Universitesi. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cemnaz/306595868/in/photostream/">Cemnaz (flickr)</a>

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From Oregon to Turkey

I'll be waking up at 3:30 tomorrow morning to begin my journey from Portland, Oregon, to Istanbul, Turkey, where I'll be based for the next several months while I embark on a trip of a lifetime.