Our hope is that this primer can be used to support the work of other social impact organizations looking to bring a systems approach to their strategy and programs. This primer was designed for the support of the Polaris Project.
Sparked by France’s passage of a recent law making it illegal for supermarkets to waste food, Al Jazeera produced a 30 minute piece on an issue central to GKI’s work on innovation for global development: food loss. France’s bold new law forces stores to donate unsold food to charities or animal feed instead of discarding…
The statistics on food waste and food loss are staggering. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has estimated that one third of all food produced worldwide is either lost (i.e., goes bad before it can be eaten) or wasted (i.e., thrown away). That adds up to an unimaginable 2.8 trillion pounds…
Dairy cattle in East Africa are more than just cash cows. With dairy demand expected to continue to rise, dairy cows represent the enormous opportunity in the dairy sector to transform livelihoods all along the dairy value chain. Yet, pressing challenges—including poor access to animal care, insufficient knowledge on animal breeding and handling, and weak…
In our work, we often encounter researchers, students, policymakers, and other leaders who know the benefits of working together, but are unsure of what tools exist or how to utilize them to help create an effective network. Intuitively, we know that humans are social creatures, and research shows that collaboration has multiplicative, rather than additive,…
The Global Knowledge Initiative has been nominated for a Rockefeller Foundation Next Century Innovators Award. We’ve been contacted by the Rockefeller Foundation to let us know of our nomination, and are crossing our fingers that we make it all the way! The Foundation will choose 100 innovators/innovative organizations to feature, all of which will have…
We our happy to welcome our two newest interns, Srujana Penumetcha and Colin Huerter. Both will be joining us as international program interns, and both are about to begin the second year of their Master of Public Policy degrees at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. We will put their bios on the GKI website soon,…
Explore our new initiative promoting mutual gains in US-China relations!