Breaking the Barriers: Sierra Leonean women on the march

Edutainment is the combination of entertainment—often television or radio soap operas—with educational messages that aim to mobilise and promote positive changes in attitudes, behaviours and social norms. According to the World Bank’s 2015 Development Report, edutainment has the potential to achieve large-scale behaviour change, and many other studies have noted similarly positive results. However, rigorously-gathered […]

Support for smallholder agriculture is increasingly important, both to boost productivity during food crises and to raise the incomes of rural poor people. However, in order to maximize the potential of agricultural investment, NGOs and other development organizations need to act as facilitators of multistakeholder processes that establish new types of farmer organization; to create […]

Plenty Foods, a Sri Lankan agri-based company, has adapted its business model to developed a stronger and more reliable supply base by working with farmer groups, governments, and NGOs, as well as other businesses. The company’s relationship with small farmers has helped them to improve their incomes and livelihoods, and has also helped Plenty Foods […]